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Joseph Losey
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Joseph Losey - what members say
review by from Norwich, Norfolk
For once Bogarde is disappointing 20 December 2004
review by A customer from
A film with a good heart 28 September 2011
review by Zamy from London
Accident 1 May 2009
Joseph Losey - filmography
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Don Giovanni
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser
Director: Joseph Losey
Certificate: 
Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears he is given a final chance to change his philandering ways or face the terrors of hell.
Joseph Losey's hugely successful ..read more »
 
75%
from 142 members
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Mr Klein
(1976)
Starring: Michel Aumont, Francine Bergé, Roland Bertin
Director: Joseph Losey
Certificate:
Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer who works as a school principal during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes financial advantage of his Jewish neighbors, knowing that they have no legal recourse. Ironically, Klein is himself mistaken for a missing Jew, a man ..read more »
70%
from 44 members
Not currently released
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Galileo
(1975)
Starring: Topol, Edward Fox, Tom Conti
Director: Joseph Losey
Certificate: 
Filmed in England, Galileo is based on Charles Laughton's 1947 adaptation of the play by Bertolt Brecht, which, like this 1975 film, was directed by Joseph Losey. Israeli film-star Topol plays the 17th century Italian astronomer, whose theories run contrary to the edicts of the Catholic Church. ..read more »
52%
from 92 members
Currently unavailable
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The Romantic Englishwoman
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger
Director: Joseph Losey
Certificate: 
When Elizabeth and Lewis Fielding's marriage shifts from perfect into boring, Elizabeth decides to leave her comfortable home and travel abroad. Suddenly overcome with jealousy, Lewis imagines his wife in a myriad of sordid situations. And when Elizabeth returns to England, she starts checking up ..read more »
52%
from 132 members
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A Doll's House
(1973)
Starring: Trevor Howard, David Warner, Delphine Seyrig
Director: Joseph Losey
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Nora (Bloom) will do anything to please her authoritarian husband Torvald (Hopkins). Per Torvald's instructions, Nora focuses on such womanly disciplines as dancing and taking care of babies, while he sees to all the affairs of money. But when a past financial mistake comes back to haunt Nora, and ..read more »
56%
from 139 members
Not currently released
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Figures In A Landscape
(1970)
Starring: Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf
Director: Joseph Losey
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Based on a novel by Barry England, the film stars Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell as two escaped prisoners in an unidentified totalitarian country. MacConnachie (Shaw) and Ansell (McDowell) occasionally pause to exchange profundities but spend most of their time on the run from an omnipresent ..read more »
49%
from 213 members
Currently unavailable
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The Go-Between
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Margaret Leighton, Alan Bates, Julie Christie
Director: Joseph Losey
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The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues their exploration of class rituals and the darker recesses of desire. Pinter's script adapts the 1953 L.P. Hartley novel about Leo Colston, a middle-aged man (Michael ..read more »
68%
from 1,373 member
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Boom!
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Based on Tennessee Williams' play, 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More', BOOM! stars real-life husband and wife Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in this story of an incredibly wealthy woman who retires to a her isolated island estate, with the intent of producing an autobiography. ..read more »
52%
from 134 members
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Accident
(1967)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Director: Joseph Losey
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In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (Bogarde) house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front of him triggers memories of their previous ..read more »
64%
from 556 members
Not currently released
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Modesty Blaise
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Joseph Losey
Certificate:
Great Britain is giving 50 million pounds worth of diamonds to a Middle East sheik in return for oil concessions. There are rumors of a plot by arch-criminal Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) to steal the diamonds, so the Secret Service Chief (Harry Andrews) seeks the help of sexy spy Modesty Blaise (Monica ..read more »
50%
from 210 members
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King And Country
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
Director: Joseph Losey
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The intensely dramatic story of a young soldier who faces a court-martial for desertion at the battle of Passchendaelle in 1917. Dirk Bogarde stars as the officer tasked with the job of saving him from the firing squad.
64%
from 278 members
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The Servant
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles
Director: Joseph Losey
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In THE SERVANT, Joseph Losey's 10th film made in the U.K. after his 1951 blacklisting in the U.S., the powerful undercurrents of class struggle and sexual repression erupt through the very British patina of civility to expose the poisoned undercurrents of a class-based society.
77%
from 660 members
Not currently released
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The Damned
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed
Director: Joseph Losey
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An American tourist with a boat is robbed by a gang of teenager boys, assisted by the leader's sister. But soon afterward she jumps into the victim's boat to escape her brother's incestuous jealousy. The couple fly together and are hunted by the entire gang, though things are not as they seem.
62%
from 176 members
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Blind Date
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle
Director: Joseph Losey
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Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty Dutch artist, Jan Van Rooyen (Hardy Kruger), caught in an upscale cottage where a woman lies murdered. Hard-nosed, irritable Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) is certain Van ..read more »
65%
from 46 members
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Time Without Pity
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Leo McKern, Lois Maxwell, Alec McCowen
Director: Joseph Losey
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In TIME WITHOUT PITY, director Joseph Losey delivers yet another multi-layered, atmospheric thriller. The film follows an alcoholic father (Michael Redgrave) who struggles to save his innocent son from the gallows, even as a cruel rival (Leo McKern) continues to keep him on the defensive. This was ..read more »
59%
from 85 members
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The Sleeping Tiger
(1954)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox
Director: Joseph Losey
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'The Sleeping Tiger' (1954) sees a psychiatrist bring a criminal into his home as an experiment, after catching him red-handed but sadly the psychiatrist's wife falls in love with the crook
65%
from 132 members
Not currently released
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The Boy With Green Hair
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale
Director: Joseph Losey
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Peter Frye, a war orphan whose parents have been killed in an air raid, wakes up one morning to find his hair has turned green. He meets with bitter prejudice and hatred from his fellow citizens, yet continues to express a belief that came to him in a vision: all wars must stop. An interesting ..read more »
58%
from 105 members
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Joseph Losey facts
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... that he thought this movie was the least successful of his collaborations with Joseph Losey. I can see why. Rarely seen, this is a low-budget and relatively short film (...
