John Schlesinger Movies

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...

Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales of an elusive witch.

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

A frail old woman meets a middle-aged man - her estranged son, whom she hasn't seen for five years.

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

This promotional short film for the feature Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) takes us to the many locations in Dorset County, England, where the...

Schlesinger’s short captures Londoners enjoying their day of rest

A dramatic retelling of the brutal double murder of Martha Broomham and her son Robert perpetrated by her husband George and his mistress Dorothy...

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."