Direction: Joseph Losey

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joseph Losey. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

Mr. Klein

1976 · Movie · 117 min. · France

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

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1951 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

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...

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6.4

111 votes

6.4

111 votes

Eva (Eve)

1962 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy

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),...

Max

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