Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey

January 14, 1909 · 117 years old

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Walton Losey III (January 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wisconsin – June 22, 1984, London, England) was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywo…

Known For

21 titles
1
The Servant

The Servant

1963 · 1h 56m · Movie

Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.

7.7
2
Mr. Klein

Mr. Klein

1976 · 2h 3m · Movie

In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear ...

7.5
3
The Go-Between

The Go-Between

1971 · 1h 56m · Movie

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

7.2
4
Accident

Accident

1967 · 1h 45m · Movie

A beautiful Austrian coed attending Oxford University is betrothed to a fellow student, but she ends up getting involved with two unhappily married professors instead.

6.8
5
The Damned

The Damned

1962 · 1h 27m · Movie

An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.

6.6
6
The Boy with Green Hair

The Boy with Green Hair

1948 · 1h 22m · Movie

This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.

6.7
7
Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise

1966 · 1h 59m · Movie

Stylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.

5.0
8
Secret Ceremony

Secret Ceremony

1968 · 1h 49m · Movie

A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother, and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.

6.2
9
King & Country

King & Country

1964 · 1h 26m · Movie

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

7.5
10
M

M

1951 · 1h 28m · Movie

In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.

6.8
11
Eva

Eva

1962 · 1h 47m · Movie

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

6.4
12
The Assassination of Trotsky

The Assassination of Trotsky

1972 · 1h 43m · Movie

After Stalin exiles Trotsky to Mexico in 1940, he sends assassin Frank Jacson to infiltrate Trotsky's circle and assassinate him, posing as a young communist to gain access to Trotsky's home.

5.7
13
Boom!

Boom!

1968 · 1h 50m · Movie

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

5.5
14
Figures in a Landscape

Figures in a Landscape

1970 · 1h 50m · Movie

Two escapees are on the run in the wilderness of an unspecified country. Wherever they go, they are followed by a menacing black helicopter.

6.5
15
The Romantic Englishwoman

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975 · 1h 56m · Movie

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.

6.1
16
The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger

1954 · 1h 29m · Movie

After a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.

6.5
17
The Lawless

The Lawless

1950 · 1h 23m · Movie

A newspaper editor in a small agricultural town finds himself going against the people in the town when he gets involved in the plight of the area's fruit pickers, who are mostly Mexican.

6.7
18
Galileo

Galileo

1975 · 2h 25m · Movie

This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicu...

6.6
19
Stranger on the Prowl

Stranger on the Prowl

1952 · 1h 22m · Movie

A nameless, homeless and rejected man who is looking for a new life and a young boy from an impoverished family, who is forced to steal when he loses the milk money. These two come together in the same hiding place.

6.5
20
Roads to the South

Roads to the South

1978 · 1h 40m · Movie

The story of an exiled Spanish revolutionary, now a successful screenwriter, dangerously drawn back to his homeland and the "good fight" for freedom from fascism.

5.6
21
The New Deal for Artists

The New Deal for Artists

1976 · 3h 0m · Movie

The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.