Direction: Karel Reisz
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Karel Reisz. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 13
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.
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...
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