Search results for "John Schlesinger"
The Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing
IMDb: 4.7
108

A comedy-drama about best friends – one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert – who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tale of Sweeney Todd

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

The Tale of Sweeney Todd
IMDb: 6.1
92

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…

Eye for an Eye

Eye for an Eye

Eye for an Eye
IMDb: 6.2
101

It’s fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm
IMDb: 7.2
95

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights
IMDb: 6.4
102

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka
IMDb: 6.6
122

In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher,…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Believers

The Believers

The Believers
IMDb: 6.1
114

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of…

The Falcon and the Snowman

The Falcon and the Snowman

The Falcon and the Snowman
IMDb: 6.8
132

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway
IMDb: 5.2
107

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…

Genre: Comedy
Yanks

Yanks

Yanks
IMDb: 6.4
138

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Marathon Man

Marathon Man

Marathon Man
IMDb: 7.4
125

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust
IMDb: 6.9
145

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye…

Genre: Drama
Visions of Eight

Visions of Eight

Visions of Eight
IMDb: 6.8
110

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch’s take on Olympic losers and their struggle to…

Genre: Documentary
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday
IMDb: 6.9
110

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he’s also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both…

Genre: Drama
Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy
IMDb: 7.8
113

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with…

Genre: Drama
Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd
IMDb: 7.2
166

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.

Darling

Darling

Darling
IMDb: 7
128

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Billy Liar

Billy Liar

Billy Liar
IMDb: 7.2
98

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker’s assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Kind of Loving

A Kind of Loving

A Kind of Loving
IMDb: N/A
112

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life…

Genre: Drama, Romance