Movies directed by John Schlesinger

A Kind of Loving (1962)

112 mins     Drama      

"A Kind of Loving" starts with a wedding and it is a scene which made me smile as it made me think back to when I use to go to weddings and the people who were there and they would behave. There is the wedding photographer bu...

Billy Liar (1963)

98 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

"Billy Liar" maybe a black and white movie made in the sixties but the remarkable thing about it is that it has a storyline which is as current now as it was back when it was released. In being such it makes "Billy Liar" a fa...

Darling (1965)

128 mins     Drama, Romance      

"Darling" is a movie which sounds better than it is with it's story of a model who uses sex to climb the social ladder, manipulating men to get what she wants but only to discover that it means nothing and ultimately her life...

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

168 mins     Drama, Romance      

Far from the Madding Crowd - director John Schlesinger's taken on Thomas Hardy's classic novel about Bathsheba Everdene and the three men who love her...

Yanks (1979)

138 mins     Drama, Romance, War      

Growing up in the UK during the 70s and 80s I have memories of an educational TV show called "The Way We Use to Live" which as the title suggests recreated what life was like at certain times. In a way John Schlesinger's "Yan...

Pacific Heights (1990)

102 mins     Mystery, Thriller      

When I think through the decades and the movies I would watch the first half of the 90s were the thriller era for me. From women who taunt police to psychos who take up residence I couldn't get enough of them and "Pacific Hei...