The best Norman Burton’s drama movies

Norman Burton

Norman Burton

05/12/1923- 29/11/2003
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Norman Burton’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Norman Burton.
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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes
8/10
An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Bloodsport

Bloodsport
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 26/02/1988
  • Character: Helmer
U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?

The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno
7/10
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion
6.4/10
Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class prostitute China Blue. As she is accused for industrial spying, Bobby Grady is hired to shadow her. However, they fall in love. Meanwhile a psychopathic preacher starts stalking her.

Amy

Amy
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 20/03/1981
  • Character: Caruthers
A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.

Hit!

Hit!
6.1/10
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.

Save the Tiger

Save the Tiger
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/02/1973
  • Character: Fred Mirrell
A businessman's professional struggles begin to conflict with his personal life over the course of two days.

Fade to Black

Fade to Black
6.1/10
Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.

Simon, King of the Witches

Simon, King of the Witches
5.8/10
Simon is a modern day warlock. Though he lives in a storm drain and sometimes talks to trees, he's deadly serious about his witchcraft. After being picked up for vagrancy, Simon spends a night in jail with Turk, a young hustler with connections to powerful people such as Hercules, an aging hipster who hires Simon to work one of his groovy parties. There he meets Linda, the DA's pill-popping daughter. In between romanic dallances and colorful sex magic ceremonies, Simon must contend with those who dare to challenge his magical prowess causing him to summon the dark world for his revenge.

Conspiracy of Terror

Conspiracy of Terror
5.4/10
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.

Fuzz

Fuzz
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/07/1972
  • Character: Police Commissioner Nelson
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

To Race The Wind

To Race The Wind
7.3/10

Force Five

Force Five
5.6/10

Pretty Boy Floyd

Pretty Boy Floyd
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1960
  • Character: Bill Courtney
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final days are anything BUT pretty!

Wild Seed

Wild Seed
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/05/1965
  • Character: Policeman
A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.

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