Karel Reisz

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married... (imdb)

The life and loves of a brawling, boisterous factory worker stuck in a dreary industrial city in the English midlands... (imdb)

A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all. (IMDb)

Morgan is obsessed with Karl Marx and gorillas. He is also obsessed with stopping his ex-wife from marrying a more normal art dealer who is not obsessed with Karl Marx and gorillas. (imdb)

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time. (imdb)

Alex Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase his. Despite of all this he cannot stop gambling. (imdb)

Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country singer who died in a tragic plane crash. (imdb)

Part of the British 'Free Cinema' movement, which included Lindsay Anderson's 'Every Day Except Christmas' (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) and 'O Dreamland' (a working-class trip to Margate amusements), and Reisz and Tony Richardson's 'Momma Don't Allow' (about a London jazz club) all made in the mid to late 1950s, before the three went on to direct features in the British 'new wave' social realist genre that drew from their experiences in Free Cinema. (imdb)

Nick Nolte reluctantly smuggles some heroin back from Vietnam for his marine buddy. When the deal goes wrong, he goes on the run with his buddy's wife.

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach. (imdb)

A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema' (imdb)

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she pretends to be. (imdb)

1958's Easter march to Aldermaston enjoys landmark status in the annals of peaceful protest. Its filmed record is similarly recalled as a milestone for campaigning documentary. (screenonline.org.uk)

A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.