Direction: Joseph Losey
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joseph Losey. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 38
The Servant
1963 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Sarah Miles · Wendy Craig · James Fox
Synopsis In The Servant (1963), a wealthy young man hires a seemingly proper manservant to manage his London home. As the servant settles in, subtle power shifts begin to unravel the household's dynamics. The servant's influence grows, blurring the lines between...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
King & Country
1964 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Tom Courtenay · Leo McKern · Barry Foster
Synopsis During World War I, an army private is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
7.4
783 votes
7.4
783 votes
The Go-Between
1971 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Julie Christie · Alan Bates · Margaret Leighton · Michael Redgrave
Synopsis Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Don Giovanni
1979 · Movie · 169 min. · Italy
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Ruggero Raimondi · Edda Moser · Kiri Te Kanawa · José Van Dam
Synopsis The exploits of Don Giovanni are renowned the world over, his seduction of ladies across the continent – young and old, ugly and beautiful, rich and poor alike (anything in a skirt really) - constituting an impressive tally (2065 at...
7.2
229 votes
7.2
229 votes
The Prowler
1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Van Heflin · Evelyn Keyes · John Maxwell · Katherine Warren
Synopsis Webb Garwood is a cynical policeman who believes that success comes from lucky breaks. Responding to a prowler complaint at the home of Susan Gilvray, he is immediately attracted to her and her wealth. He returns to "check up" on...
7.0
746 votes
7.0
746 votes
The Intimate Stranger
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey · Alec C. Snowden
Cast Richard Basehart · Mary Murphy · Constance Cummings · Roger Livesey
Synopsis A married movie studio executive's life, starts to fall apart when he is intimately stalked by a beautiful woman he claims he does not know.
6.8
39 votes
6.8
39 votes
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Alain Delon · Jeanne Moreau · Francine Bergé · Juliet Berto
Synopsis Paris, 1942. Robert Klein is a successful art dealer, profiteering from the French government’s treatment of its Jewish citizens. To escape deportation to Germany, Jews are forced to sell their treasures to unscrupulous people like Klein. Then, one day, Klein...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Galileo
1975 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Topol · Edward Fox · John Gielgud · Tom Conti
Synopsis This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around...
6.7
527 votes
6.7
527 votes
Accident
1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Stanley Baker · Jacqueline Sassard · Michael York
Synopsis Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. Things begin to change for him when he meets Anna,...
6.6
857 votes
6.6
857 votes
Blind Date
1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Stanley Baker · Robert Flemyng · Gordon Jackson · Hardy Krüger
Synopsis Superb thriller from Joseph Losey ("The Servant") starring Hardy Kruger as a Dutch painter accused of murdering his mistress after her body is found in his cottage. Investigator Stanley Baker discovers that the woman was also involved with a diplomat,...
6.6
326 votes
6.6
326 votes
M
1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast David Wayne · Howard Da Silva · Luther Adler · Martin Gabel
6.6
179 votes
6.6
179 votes
The Criminal
1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Stanley Baker · Sam Wanamaker · Margit Saad · Patrick Magee
Synopsis An ex-con who's taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison, but he won't tell his fellow gang members where he's stashed the loot. The gang kidnaps his girlfriend and has him tortured...
6.6
529 votes
6.6
529 votes
The Sleeping Tiger
1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Alexis Smith · Alexander Knox · Hugh Griffith
Synopsis A thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist, who captures him. In exchange for his freedom, the thief agrees to become a guinea pig for the doctor's rehabilitation theories with ultimately tragic results.
6.5
140 votes
6.5
140 votes
The Lawless
1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Macdonald Carey · Gail Russell · Johnny Sands · Lee Patrick
Synopsis A newspaper editor in a small agricultural town finds himself going against the people in the town when he gets involved in the plight of the area's fruit pickers, who are mostly Mexican.
6.4
106 votes
6.4
106 votes
Time Without Pity
1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Michael Redgrave · Alec McCowen · Peter Cushing · Ann Todd
Synopsis Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec's father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and...
6.4
111 votes
6.4
111 votes
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Jeanne Moreau · Stanley Baker · Virna Lisi · Giorgio Albertazzi
Synopsis Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by his deceased brother). Tyvian is engaged to Francesca (Virna Lisi),...
6.4
562 votes
6.4
562 votes
Stranger on the Prowl
1952 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Paul Muni · Joan Lorring · Vittorio Manunta · Luisa Rossi
Synopsis A nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family, who is forced to steal when he loses the milk money. These two come together in the same hiding...
6.4
39 votes
6.4
39 votes
The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Pat O'Brien · Robert Ryan · Barbara Hale · Dean Stockwell
Synopsis Peter Frye, typical American boy, is orphaned when his parents are caught in the London Blitz. He is not told of their fate, but shuttled from one selfish relative to the next, ending with "Gramp," a kindly ex-vaudevillean. Peter and...
6.2
441 votes
6.2
441 votes
The Damned
1963 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Macdonald Carey · Shirley Anne Field · Viveca Lindfors · Alexander Knox
Synopsis Legal and illegal criminality. An American tourist with a boat is robbed by a gang of teenager boys, assisted by the leader's sister. But soon afterward she jumps to the victim's boat to escape her brother's incestuous jealousy. The couple...
6.0
345 votes
6.0
345 votes
Secret Ceremony
1968 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Mia Farrow · Robert Mitchum · Peggy Ashcroft
Synopsis A woman and the girl she insists is her long-lost daughter are caught in a web of insanity and deception in this powerful psychological thriller.
6.0
318 votes
6.0
318 votes