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  • King And Country
  • King And Country review by from Norwich, Norfolk
    Rated - 2 stars For once Bogarde is disappointing 20 December 2004
    ... 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 (...  
  • Accident
  • Accident review by Zamy from London
    Rated - 0 stars Accident 1 May 2009
    ...This is the second of the three collaborations between Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter in the 1960's and in my view is probably the least successful; although the style is s...  
  • Figures In A Landscape
  • Figures In A Landscape review by drunkenmaster from Mid Glamorgan
    Rated - 3 stars Two Men And A Big Black Helicopter. 28 July 2006
    ...sed on the cult sci fi novel of the same name by Barry England, and directed by Joseph Losey. Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell star as two men on the run from a menacin...  

Joseph Losey - filmography


  • Don Giovanni on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Ruggero Raimondi,  John Macurdy,  Edda Moser
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 84 members
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  • Mr Klein (1976)
    Starring: Michel Aumont,  Francine Bergé,  Roland Bertin
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 26 members
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  • The Romantic Englishwoman on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Glenda Jackson,  Michael Caine,  Helmut Berger
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 106 members
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  • Galileo on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Topol,  Edward Fox,  Tom Conti
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This biographical pictures tells the story of famed scientist/theorist Galileo Galilei (Topol, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) as he reaches a pivotal point in his life. At the crux of the Plague and the Reformation, the Catholic Inquisition placed many forward thinkers at risk. Galileo was no different, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 89 members
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  • Figures In A Landscape on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Robert Shaw,  Malcolm McDowell,  Henry Woolf
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 180 members
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  • Boom! (1968)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Richard Burton
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 2 members
    Due for release on 30th November 2009
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  • Modesty Blaise (1966)
    Starring: Terence Stamp,  Monica Vitti,  Dirk Bogarde
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 22 members
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  • The Damned (1962)
    Starring: Macdonald Carey,  Shirley Anne Field
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 53% from 22 members
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  • The Criminal (1960)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Sam Wanamaker,  Grégoire Aslan
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An ex-con who's taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison, but he won't tell his fellow gang members where he's stashed the loot.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 27 members
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  • Time Without Pity on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Leo McKern,  Lois Maxwell,  Alec McCowen
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 43 members
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  • The Boy With Green Hair (1948)
    Starring: Robert Ryan,  Barbara Hale
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 12 members
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Joseph Losey facts

5 most recent films

Don Giovanni - 3.5 stars
Mr Klein - 3.5 stars
The Romantic Englishwoman - 2.5 stars
Galileo - 2.5 stars
A Doll's House - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Servant - 4.0 stars
Don Giovanni - 3.5 stars
John Mills - The Screen Icons Collection - 3.5 stars
The Family Way - 3.5 stars
The Go-Between - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Boy With Green Hair - 2.5 stars
The Big Night - 2.5 stars
The Damned - 3.0 stars
Modesty Blaise - 3.0 stars
Go-Between, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dirk Bogarde - 10 times - show films
Sarah Miles - 8 times - show films
Chris Sarandon - 7 times - show films
Lisa Gastoni - 6 times - show films
Stanley Baker - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roy Boulting - 6 times - show films
Jay Lewis - 5 times - show films
Basil Dearden - 4 times - show films
Jay - 2 times - show films
Cyril Frankel - 1 times - show films