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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
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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 »
 
74%
from 158 members
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Mr Klein
(1976)
Starring: Michel Aumont, Francine Bergé, Roland Bertin
Director: Joseph Losey
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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 55 members
Not currently released
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Galileo
(1975)
Starring: Topol, Edward Fox, Tom Conti
Director: Joseph Losey
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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 »
51%
from 93 members
Currently unavailable
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The Romantic Englishwoman
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Beatrice Romand, Michael Caine
Director: Joseph Losey
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Wry psychological drama adapted by Tom Stoppard from the novel by Thomas Wiseman, starring Michael Caine as Lewis Fielding, a successful novelist suffering from writer's block, who suspects that his wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), who is holidaying alone in Europe, must be having an affair. ..read more »
51%
from 142 members
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A Doll's House
(1973)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Jane Fonda, Delphine Seyrig
Director: Joseph Losey
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Drama based on Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play. Nora Helmar (Jane Fonda) has all she wants - or so she thinks. Everything in her bourgeois home - the furniture, the clothing, the trimmings - looks perfect. But slowly she realises that her pampered life is spiritually empty. Her marriage to a bank manager, ..read more »
55%
from 151 members
Not currently released
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The Assassination Of Trotsky
(1972)
Starring: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Richard Burton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Fictionalised account of the events leading up to the assassination of former Marxist leader Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940. The man sent to carry out the task is Frank Jacson (Alain Delon) who attempts to gain access to the heavily guarded Trotsky (Richard Burton) via his supporter, Gita. Trotsky ..read more »
40%
from 86 members
Currently unavailable
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The Go-Between
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Edward Fox, Margaret Leighton
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 1,490 member
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The Go-Between - Blu-ray
(1970)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Edward Fox, Margaret Leighton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Julie Christie stars in this screen adaptation of the classic novel by L.P. Hartley. A young teenage boy, Leo, is invited to a wealthy school friend's rich family estate and is drawn into a love affair between his friend's twenty-something sister, Marian, and the family neighbour, even though she ..read more »
64%
from 117 members
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Secret Ceremony
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow
Director: Joseph Losey
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Secret Ceremony was based on a prize-winning short story by Argentine civil servant Marco Denevi. Elizabeth Taylor plays Leonora, an aging prostitute who becomes convinced that Cenci (Mia Farrow) is her daughter -- who supposedly died in infancy. Cenci knows that she is in fact Leonora's niece, but ..read more »
53%
from 180 members
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Boom!
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star in this drama adapted for the screen by Tennessee Williams from his 1963 play 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore'. Sissy Goforth (Taylor) is a terminally ill, washed-up high society widow who has outlived no fewer than six husbands and is now in the ..read more »
53%
from 156 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 597 members
Currently unavailable
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The Family Way
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: John Mills, Avril Angers, Hywel Bennett
Director: Roy Boulting
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A double bill of British modern classics. In 'Accident' (1967) two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (Dirk Bogarde) house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front ..read more »
70%
from 952 members
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Accident - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Director: Joseph Losey
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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 meetings. It transpires ..read more »
45%
from 2 members
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Modesty Blaise
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Joseph Losey
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Essentially everything is played for its camp value, including the rather convoluted, James Bond-like plot, which concerns the hijacking of a shipment of diamonds heading for the Middle East.
50%
from 242 members
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King And Country
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Barry Foster, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay
Director: Joseph Losey
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Set in WWI, Dirk Bogarde plays an arrogant soldier assigned to defend Arthur Hamp (Tom Courtenay), a slow-witted private who faces the death penalty for desertion. Initially impatient to have the case over so that he can get back to the war, Bogarde comes to realise that Hamp is innocent, shell-..read more »
64%
from 298 members
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The Servant - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
Director: Joseph Losey
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James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse and employs Dirk Bogarde as a house-keeper. However, Bogarde becomes steadily more pervasive and manages to ..read more »
78%
from 20 members
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The Servant
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles
Director: Joseph Losey
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James Fox plays a wealthy American who has escaped from his homeland in the wake of Communist paranoia. He returns to England from a holiday in Europe, buys a handsome Georgian townhouse and employs Dirk Bogarde as a house-keeper. However, Bogarde becomes steadily more pervasive and manages to ..read more »
76%
from 730 members
Currently unavailable
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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 212 members
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Blind Date
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Hardy Kruger, Micheline Presle
Director: Joseph Losey
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Murder mystery from director Josef Losey. When Dutch artist Jan Van Rooyen (Hardy Kruger) is discovered in a cottage with a murdered woman, it seems a cut and dried case for Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker). Although Van Rooyen soon admits to having an affair with the dead women, who he believed to ..read more »
62%
from 57 members
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Time Without Pity
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Peter Cushing, Ann Todd
Director: Joseph Losey
Certificate: 
Gritty noir thriller from director Joseph Losey. When Losey was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he came to England to work. This was the first film he directed under his own name since the blacklist. It tells the tale of David Graham (Michael Redgrave), an alcoholic writer who has 24 hours to ..read more »
60%
from 94 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 146 members
Currently unavailable
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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 »
59%
from 122 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 (...
