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The Next Best Thing
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Madonna, Rupert Everett, Michael Vartan
Director: John Schlesinger
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When best friends Abbie (Madonna - EVITA) and Robert (Everett - MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING)--who happens to be gay--engage in an unexpected tryst, they write it off as the result of clouded judgment from too many drinks. However, when Abbie discovers she's pregnant, the two decide to move in together ..read more »
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Eye For An Eye
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris
Director: John Schlesinger
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Karen McCann's (Sally Field) world is torn apart while driving home one day when she receives a call on her cell phone from her daughter--who is being raped and murdered as she speaks. The murderer--smirking, animalistic Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland)--is arrested, but is then released on a ..read more »
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Madame Sousatzka
(1988)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdry
Director: John Schlesinger
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A Russian/American piano tutor living in London encounters a young Indian boy who seems to have an extraordinary musical gift, which she realises can be moulded into genius. Here ..read more »
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The Believers
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross
Director: John Schlesinger
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Set in New York, this tense drama revolves around a tough police psychologist fighting to save his family from the evil workings of an ancient religion, while he also attempts to solve a series of evil ritualistic child murders.
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The Falcon And The Snowman
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle
Director: John Schlesinger
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Based on an actual incident, THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN is a tale of espionage about two upper-middle class kids who, in 1977, became spies for the Soviet Union. Disillusioned with the American government, a drop-out seminary student, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton), begins stealing classified ..read more »
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Honky Tonk Freeway
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Teri Garr, Beverly D'Angelo
Director: John Schlesinger
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Merchants and residents of a small Florida hamlet called Ticlaw are up in arms over the construction of a major freeway that's scheduled to bypass their town, funnelling much needed tourism thirty-two miles up the road to the freeway's nearest exit. Mayor Kirby T. Calo attempts to bribe highway ..read more »
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Yanks
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn
Director: John Schlesinger
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From early 1942 until D-Day, several million Americans landed in Britain on their way to fight at the European front. To the war-weary British, many of these troops were "overpaid and oversexed." But despite the resentment, with thousands of men abroad, the stage was set for romantic dalliances ..read more »
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Marathon Man
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Dustin Hoffman
Director: John Schlesinger
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Columbia University graduate student Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) spends his spare time running in marathons. He finds himself running for his life, however, when he unwittingly becomes entangled in an espionage plot involving fierce Nazi fugitive Szell (Sir Laurence Olivier). Watch for--or avoid--..read more »
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head
Director: John Schlesinger
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Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as the mood takes him.
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Midnight Cowboy
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles
Director: John Schlesinger
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John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning film, which features brilliant performances by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, brought an unusually gritty realism to the screen and offered a then-rare portrait of New York's street scene. Joe Buck (Jon Voight - DELIVERANCE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE), a male prostitute ..read more »
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Far From The Madding Crowd
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp
Director: John Schlesinger
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In rural Victorian England, circa 1865, a headstrong young woman inherits her dead uncle's farm in Wessex. Soon after her arrival, three very different men begin to pursue her: a failed sheep farmer; a wealthy landowner; and the one she falls in love with, a reckless military sergeant whose ..read more »
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Darling
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Director: John Schlesinger, Bryan Forbes
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Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ..read more »
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Billy Liar
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Director: John Schlesinger
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BILLY LIAR was an immediate sensation as first a novel, then a hit play--both written by Keith Waterhouse, who also served as screenwriter on the film. Director John Schlesinger's screen version was a British landmark in the fertile cinema of the late 1950s and early '60s, and launched the career ..read more »
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A Kind Of Loving
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird
Director: John Schlesinger
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Drama based on the novel by Stan Barstow which tells of a young draughtsman who is forced into marriage after making his girlfriend pregnant. Living with her dragon-like mother soon makes him realise that his marriage is just a fragile relationship based purely on sex.
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Marathon Man
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(1976)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
Director: John Schlesinger
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Run time: 125 minutes
Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. ..read more »
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Midnight Cowboy 9 January 2004
...Midnight Cowboy
D. John Schlesinger
This was Schlesinger?s first film in America. It stars John Voight as Joe Buck, a rather simple minded Texan who fancies his chances as a ...
Caron and Christie 26 August 2005
