The best Richard Butler’s movies

Richard Butler

Richard Butler

30/10/1924- 23/04/2003
We present our ranking of the best Richard Butler’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Richard Butler.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral
7.1/10
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Who Dares Wins

Who Dares Wins
6.4/10
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?

Scrubbers

Scrubbers
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/1982
  • Character: Governor
Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter, who is being raised in a convent; and Carol, who hopes to be recaptured and sent to a closed borstal where she knows her girlfriend Doreen is being held. Carol's plan works, although she is devastated to find that not only has Doreen found herself a new girlfriend inside (who both taunt and tease Carol), when Annetta is arrested at the convent and sent to the same closed borstal, she assumes it was Carol who "grassed" her up and proceeds to plan her revenge. Carol finds protection in the form of inmate Eddie, while Annetta's constant bullying attempts keep her in solitary confinement; however, Carol's world is turned upside-down when Eddie is released from borstal and her protection is gone... Written by Rhino

Some Mother's Son

Some Mother's Son
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 13/09/1996
  • Character: MP (uncredited)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant
7.9/10
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Scum

Scum
7.7/10
A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders.

The Vanishing Army

The Vanishing Army
7.1/10
  • Release: 29/11/1978
  • Character: Ellis
Career army man Bill Paterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs.

Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation
7.1/10
A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

One Day at a Time

One Day at a Time
8/10
  • Release: 22/11/1977
  • Character: Ronald
An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting

The Man with the Power

The Man with the Power
5.6/10
  • Release: 03/11/1978
  • Character: Mr. Harris
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.

That Crazy Woman

That Crazy Woman
  • Release: 21/02/1980
  • Character: Harry Moore
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.

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