John Schlesinger

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.

Dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman · With Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susan Sarandon

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton

It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith

A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt