Direction: John Schlesinger

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Jon Voight · Brenda Vaccaro · Sylvia Miles

Plot Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Laurence Olivier · Roy Scheider · William Devane

Plot As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Alan Bates · Thora Hird · June Ritchie · Pat Keen

Plot A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Julie Christie · Terence Stamp · Peter Finch · Alan Bates

Plot Based on Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel, Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration....

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Tom Courtenay · Wilfred Pickles · Mona Washbourne · Ethel Griffies

Plot A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Julie Christie · Dirk Bogarde · Laurence Harvey · Roland Curram

Plot Diana Scott (Julie Christie) is a young, attractive and vivacious London model who decides to climb the social ladder quickly by jumping, rather fecklessly, in and out of assorted beds....

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Donald Sutherland · Karen Black · William Atherton · Burgess Meredith

Plot Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye,...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast James Fox · David Calder · Geoffrey Palmer · Prunella Scales

Plot A dramatization of the true story of Sir Anthony Blunt, curator of Queen Elizabeth II's art collection until he confessed in 1964 to being a Soviet spy.

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Kate Beckinsale · Eileen Atkins · Sheila Burrell · Stephen Fry

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Glenda Jackson · Peter Finch · Murray Head · Peggy Ashcroft

Plot A Jewish doctor, Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) and a middle-aged woman, Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) are both having affairs with the same male artist, Bob Elkin (Murray Head). Not only...

Direction Jim Clark · Milos Forman · Kon Ichikawa · Claude Lelouch

Plot This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman,...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Alan Bates · Coral Browne · Charles Gray · Harold Innocent

Plot Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Peggy Ashcroft · Twiggy · Shabana Azmi

Plot Bengali-speaking Sushila Sen, her husband and son, Manek, relocate from India to London, England and begin their lives as immigrants. Tragically, Mr. Sen passes away, leaving Sushila to struggle with...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Michael Keaton · Melanie Griffith · Matthew Modine · Beverly D'Angelo

Plot A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs....

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Timothy Hutton · Sean Penn · Pat Hingle · Joyce Van Patten

Plot John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Richard Gere · Vanessa Redgrave · William Devane · Rachel Roberts

Plot During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Martin Sheen · Helen Shaver · Robert Loggia · Richard Masur

Plot After the accidental death of his wife by electrocution, Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) moves to New York City, where a rash of brutal, ritualistic child murders, supposedly committed by members...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Sally Field · Ed Harris · Kiefer Sutherland · Olivia Burnette

Plot After her daughter Julie is brutally raped and murdered, Karen McCaan (Sally Field) is turned down by the LAPD after she requests they keep suspect Robert Doob (Keifer Sutherland) in...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Isabella Rossellini · Campbell Scott · Ronald Nitschke

Plot A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend,...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Rupert Everett · Madonna · Benjamin Bratt · Michael Vartan