Direction: Karel Reisz

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


Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

1960 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Albert Finney · Shirley Anne Field · Rachel Roberts · Hylda Baker

Plot Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) is a young man filled with a rage perhaps even he doesn't fully understand. Working in the tough environment of a Nottingham factory, he compensates for...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Momma Don't Allow (S)

1955 · Documentary · 22 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz · Tony Richardson

Cast Chris Barber · Ron Bowden · Jim Bray · Lonnie Donegan

Plot A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.

6.7

78 votes

6.7

78 votes

We Are the Lambeth Boys

1958 · Documentary · 53 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Plot We are the Lambeth Boys is a fascinating glimpse into the everyday lives of working class young people in the Britain of the 1950s. This pioneering documentary – part of...

6.7

32 votes

6.7

32 votes

Isadora

1968 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · James Fox · Jason Robards · Ivan Tchenko

Plot 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...

6.6

576 votes

6.6

576 votes

The French Lieutenant's Woman

1981 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Meryl Streep · Jeremy Irons · Hilton McRae · Emily Morgan

Plot A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah,...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

The Gambler

1974 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast James Caan · Paul Sorvino · Lauren Hutton · Morris Carnovsky

Plot 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...

6.6

361 votes

6.6

361 votes

Sweet Dreams

1985 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Jessica Lange · Ed Harris · Ann Wedgeworth · David Clennon

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

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6.2

206 votes

6.2

206 votes

Who'll Stop the Rain

1978 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Nick Nolte · Tuesday Weld · Michael Moriarty · Anthony Zerbe

Plot Severely disappointed with the US government after the Vietnam conflict, John decides that the best way to make money is to smuggle heroin from South-east Asia into the States. He...

6.2

327 votes

6.2

327 votes

Night Must Fall

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Albert Finney · Susan Hampshire · Mona Washbourne · Sheila Hancock

Plot Danny is a working-class psychopath who moves in with a wealthy widow to redecorate her house. He plays "games" with her while sleeping with her daughter and maid.

6.1

46 votes

6.1

46 votes

Morgan, a Suitable Case for Treatment

1966 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast David Warner · Vanessa Redgrave · Robert Stephens · Irene Handl

Plot Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his...

6.0

127 votes

6.0

127 votes

Everybody Wins

1990 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Nick Nolte · Debra Winger · Will Patton · Judith Ivey

Plot Debra Winger plays Angela Crispini, a dim woman who believes that corrupt court officials convicted an innocent boy of murder. The story comes from Miller's one act play, SOME KIND...

5.1

242 votes

5.1

242 votes

Performance (TV Series)

1991 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Curtis · David Thacker · Sheree Folkson · Gregory Mosher

Cast Ronald Pickup · Ian Holm · Corin Redgrave · Jane Horrocks

Plot TV Series (1991-1998). 5 seasons.

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March to Aldermaston (S)

1959 · Documentary · 33 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson · Karel Reisz

Cast Richard Burton

Plot A new world was in birth when, on Easter weekend of 1958, thousands of Britons staged the first "March against Nuclear Death." Alarmed by a spiraling arms race - Britain...

Not rated

Not rated