John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger

February 16, 1926 · 100 years old

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE, was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday). Schlesinger was born in London, into a middle class Jewish family. His acting ca…

Known For

15 titles
1
Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

1969 · 1h 53m · Movie

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

7.8
2
Marathon Man

Marathon Man

1976 · 2h 5m · Movie

After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

7.4
3
Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights

1990 · 1h 42m · Movie

San Francisco yuppies restore a costly Victorian home, then rent a studio to a landlord's nightmare.

6.4
4
Eye for an Eye

Eye for an Eye

1996 · 1h 41m · Movie

When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.

6.2
5
Darling

Darling

1965 · 2h 8m · Movie

Beautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.

7.0
6
The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet

1996 · 1h 42m · Movie

A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

7.8
7
Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

1995 · 1h 45m · Movie

A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.

7.2
8
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971 · 1h 50m · Movie

The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.

7.0
9
The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust

1975 · 2h 24m · Movie

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.

6.9
10
Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

1967 · 2h 48m · Movie

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

7.2
11
Yanks

Yanks

1979 · 2h 18m · Movie

Joining WWII, USA ships soldiers to UK. Matt and John arrive in 1942. Each see a local woman - married or to be engaged with soldiers serving faraway.

6.4
12
Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981 · 1h 47m · Movie

A satire of American progression in which a mayor tries to bribe an official to ensure a ramp connects Ticlaw to an up-and-coming intrastate. When his plan fails, the town residents are forced to take matters into their own hands.

5.2
13
The Twilight of the Golds

The Twilight of the Golds

1996 · 1h 32m · Movie

When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She must decide whether to keep the child, or...

6.4
14
The Tale of Sweeney Todd

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

1998 · 1h 32m · Movie

When a merchant goes missing, a young American investigates the disappearance and discovers the truth about Sweeney Todd, a skilled barber, and his business partner Mrs. Lovett, a butcher.

6.1
15
Visions of Eight

Visions of Eight

1973 · 1h 50m · Movie

Eight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives.

6.8
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