John Schlesinger Movies

During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's...

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the...

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène...

After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland...

Schlesinger’s short captures Londoners enjoying their day of rest

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

John Schlesinger's 1957 film about the Wakes Week holiday in Blackburn looks at the tradition where mill towns shut down and thousands of workers...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."