John Schlesinger

All Movies of John Schlesinger

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  4.6
  The Next Best Thing
  Director of the film

   2000

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  The Tale of Sweeney Todd (TV)
  The fictional tale of the murderous 19th century barber (Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna Lumley) for her renowned meat pies. A young innocent (Selina Boyack) and the dashing inspector (Campbell Sc...
  Director of the film

   1997

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  The Twilight of the Golds (TV)
  When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She must decide whether to keep the child, or...
   1996

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  7.9
  Cold Comfort Farm
  In 1930s England, Flora, a sophisticated young woman suddenly left penniless, seeks refuge with her eccentric relatives at the extremely shabby Cold Comfort Farm. Her presence disturbs and ultimately reinvigorates the torpid house...
  Director of the film

   1995

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  7.8
  The Celluloid Closet
  Author Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City) wrote Lily Tomlin's narration for this superb documentary, based on a book by the late Vito Russo, about Hollywood's treatment of homosexual characters in this century. Never pointing a ...
  Character: Self

   1995

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  The Lost Language of Cranes (Great Performances)
  When a young gay may comes out of the closet, his friends support him. But when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship.
   1991

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  6.0
  Pacific Heights
  A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. H...
  Director of the film

   1990

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  Madame Sousatzka
  Bengali-speaking Sushila Sen, her husband and son, Manek, relocate from India to London, England and begin their lives as immigrants. Tragically, Mr. Sen passes away, leaving Sushila to struggle with everyday living and looking af...
  Director of the film

   1988

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  The Believers
  After the accidental death of his wife by electrocution, Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) moves to New York City, where a rash of brutal, ritualistic child murders, supposedly committed by members of a Hispanic cult practicing a malevol...
  Director of the film

   1987

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  Screen One (TV Series)
  (1985-2002). 6 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The result...
  Director of the film

   1985

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  6.8
  The Falcon and the Snowman
  John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Christop...
  Director of the film

   1985

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  An Englishman Abroad (TV)
  Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
  Director of the film

   1983

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  Honky Tonk Freeway
  Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by it's Mayor, will d...
  Director of the film

   1981

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  6.4
  Yanks
  During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advan...
  Director of the film

   1979

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  7.0
  Marathon Man
  As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled in an espionage plot. Babe's brot...
  Director of the film

   1976

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  7.1
  The Day of the Locust
  Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely,...
  Director of the film

   1975

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  Visions of Eight
  This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfl...
  Director of the film

   1973

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  7.2
  Sunday, Bloody Sunday
  A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only are Hirsh and Greville aware that Elkin is se...
  Director of the film

   1971

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  7.9
  Midnight Cowboy
  Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. Th...
  Director of the film

   1969

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  7.2
  Far From the Madding Crowd
  Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. And she captures the lives and l...
  Director of the film

   1967

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  7.2
  Darling
  Diana Scott (Julie Christie) is a young, attractive and vivacious London model who decides to climb the social ladder quickly by jumping, rather fecklessly, in and out of assorted beds. She is a reckless seeker of self caught up i...
  Director of the film

   1965

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  7.4
  Billy Liar
  A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
  Director of the film

   1963

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  A Kind of Loving
  A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-...
  Director of the film

   1962

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  Terminus
  The movie follows the routine of an agitated train station - the Waterloo Station - making a brief yet important cultural portrait of the 1960's England, mixing reality and fiction.
  Director of the film

   1961

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  The Battle of the River Plate
  Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the surface raiders, huge ...
   1956

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  The Divided Heart
  During World War II, a German woman named Inga (Cornell Borchers, who won a Best Foreign Actress BAFTA Award) goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by childles...
  Character: Ticket Collector

   1954