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Excalibur

1981 · Movie · 135 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer72%as of 2024-10-31
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.3/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic56/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

Excalibur is a 1981 epic dark medieval fantasy film directed, co-written and produced by John Boorman, that retells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, based loosely on the 15th-century Arthurian romance Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory.

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Genres
Fantasy / Action / Drama
Original language
English

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