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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, John Schlesinger
Based on Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene is a willful Read More »
Pacific Heights (1990) John Schlesinger, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton
San Franciscans Drake Goodman and Patty Palmer are taking their relationship Read More »
The Innocent (1993) John Schlesinger, Isabella Rossellini, Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott
A young engineer is sent to post World War II Berlin to help the Americans, in spying on the Russians. Read More »
Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles
Cowboy Joe Buck moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune Read More »
Madame Sousatzka (1988) John Schlesinger, Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft
Bengali Sushila Sen and her son, Manek, relocate from India to London after Sushila’s Read More »
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) John Schlesinger, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle
The true story of Christopher Boyce, a young All-American man whose job as a guard Read More »
Darling (1965) John Schlesinger, Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Young, attractive and vivacious, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie) is firmly decided to become rich and famous as well. Read More »
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) John Schlesinger, Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19 Read More »
The Day of the Locust (1975) John Schlesinger, Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith
Life’s flotsam and jetsam turn up at late 1930’s Hollywoodland’s door, once more, in this insightful tale of wannabes and desperadoes. Read More »
Separate Tables (1983) John Schlesinger, Ken Price, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom, Drama
Arrival of a beautiful model stirs up the guests of a peaceful small-town hotel where most of them hide from their troubles. Secrets, infatuations and lies come out. Read More »
A Kind of Loving (1962) John Schlesinger, Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Drama, Romance
A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality Read More »
Billy Liar (1963) John Schlesinger, Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young British clerk in a gloomy North Country undertaker’s office, Billy is bombarded daily by the propaganda of the media that all things are for the asking. This transparently false doctrine, coupled with the humdrum job and his wild imagination, leads him on frequent flights to “Ambrosia,” a mythical kingdom where he is crowned king, general, lover or any idealized hero the real situation of the moment makes him desire. His vacillating commitment and post-adolescent immaturity have created situations which make Ambrosia all the more attractive. He’s succeeded in becoming engaged to two different girls, simultaneously, while in love with a third, Liz. He’s in hot water with his employer, having spent a rather large sum of postage money on his personal frivolities. And last, but not least, his dream of becoming a highly-paid, famous scriptwriter in London seems doomed to failure. The only person in his life capable of bringing him down to earth is Liz, and she’s having a difficult …
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