John Schlesinger Movies

The movie follows the routine of a busy train station - London's Waterloo Station - making a brief yet important cultural portrait of 1960s England, mixing reality and fiction.

Midnight Cowboy is a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, and Sylvia Miles. A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

Sunday Bloody Sunday is a movie starring Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, and Murray Head. The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female...

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.

Marathon Man is a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and Roy Scheider. A history student becomes caught in the middle of a dangerous international plot involving Nazis, stolen jewels, and government agents.

Yanks is a movie starring Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, and Vanessa Redgrave. Joining WWII, USA ships soldiers to UK. Matt and John arrive in 1942. Each see a local woman - married or to be engaged with soldiers serving faraway.

Honky Tonk Freeway is a movie starring David Rasche, Paul Jabara, and Howard Hesseman. A satire of American progression in which a mayor tries to bribe an official to ensure a ramp connects Ticlaw to an up-and-coming intrastate....

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

A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujería-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.

Madame Sousatzka is a movie starring Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, and Peggy Ashcroft. Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond...

Pacific Heights is a movie starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton. A couple work hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately, one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Cold Comfort Farm is a TV movie starring Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, and Sheila Burrell. A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.

When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.

The Tale of Sweeney Todd is a TV movie starring Ben Kingsley, Campbell Scott, and Joanna Lumley. The fictional tale of the murderous nineteenth century barber (Sir Ben Kinglsey) who sold his kills to a neighboring butcher (Joanna...

The Next Best Thing is a movie starring Madonna, Rupert Everett, and Benjamin Bratt. Abbie, tired of failed relationships, has a one-night-stand with her gay friend; they agree to raise the resulting baby together.