John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 6 (Actor), 25 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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The Next Best Thing
Abbie is a yoga instructor who is approaching 40 and has been burned by too many past relationships. Robbie is a gay, aging Hollywood playboy who works as a gardener and has become Abbie's best friend. Their relationship takes a different turn when they get rip-roaring drunk and end up in bed together.
Marathon Man
A young man is tormented by a secret organization, run by a sadistic Nazi doctor trying to smuggle priceless diamonds into his possession (imdb)
Midnight Cowboy
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City. (imdb)
The Believers
A New York psychiatrist finds that a voodoo cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son. (imdb)
The Falcon and the Snowman
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union. (imdb)
Darling
A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties. (imdb)
Billy Liar
Billy, a young man with a dreary life, spends most of his time daydreaming about a land where he is a hero... (imdb)
Cold Comfort Farm
In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year... (imdb)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as the mood takes him. (imdb)
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. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords. (imdb)
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, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love. (imdb)
Eye for an Eye
After her daughter Julie is brutally raped and murdered, Karen McCaan (Sally Field) is turned down by the LAPD after she requests they keep suspect Robert Doob (Keifer Sutherland) in jail for good instead of paroling him. Nevertheless, the LAPD and the courts do decide to parole him and Karen turns to a group of hit man trainers for help... (imdb)
Far from the Madding Crowd
Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who captures the lives and loves of three very different men: Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage; William Boldwood (Peter Finch), a prosperous man in his early forties and a confirmed bachelor; and Sergeant Frank Troy (Terence Stamp), a handsome, reckless swordsman given to sudden fits of violence. (imdb)
Madame Sousatzka
Bengali immigrant Sushila Sen lives in London with her son Manek who is musically gifted. She supports them both as a caterer of Indian food while Manek studies the piano with Madame Sousatzka who is a Russian immigrant. Madame Sousatzka, while highly talented, never succeeded as a pianist and thus lives through her students, particularly talented ones such as Manek. Manek is soon forced to choose between Madame Sousatzka and his mother who both compete for his attention... (wikipedia.org)
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
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 Scott) who tries to solve the murders are also thrown into the mix. (imdb)
Yanks
It is 1943 and streams of American soldiers are stationed in England awaiting orders for the D-Day Invasion, the end of World War II. Three soldiers and their involvement with three English women of different social classes metaphorically represent the larger relationship between England and America. (imdb)
A Kind of Loving
Northern draughtsman Vic Brown flirts with typist Ingrid Rothwell until he finally seduces her. However, he's forced to marry her when she becomes pregnant, but draws the line at living with her shrewish mother. (Empire Magazine)
Terminus
Terminus (1961) - Short Film
A record of a full day at Waterloo station.
The Innocent
A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman who will take him on the dark side of evil. (imdb)
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 do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project. (Michel Rudoy )
Visions of Eight
Documentary about the 1972 Munich Olympics, as seen by eight different directors.
An Englishman Abroad
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.
The Why Store: Father
A music video for The Why Store's song 'Father'. (imdb)
Paul McCartney: Little Willow
A music video for Paul McCartney's song 'Little Willow'.
The Starfish
Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.