Films with: Schlesinger, John

Believers

A widower and his son move to New York City and become involved with a cultish religion which believes in the sacrifice of children.

DVD 2169

Billy Liar

Billy dreams of escape from an unsympathetic, resolutely working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancees, and an insecure dead-end job at an undertakers.

DVD 2170

Cold Comfort Farm

When orphan Flora Poste descends on her eccentric relatives at Cold Comfort Farm, she finds nothing but chaos and sees it her duty to restore order.

DVD 10574

Darling

A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social satire and a devastating spoof of the television-advertising age.

DVD 6786

Far from the madding crowd

Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of violence.

DVD 6788

Marathon man

"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.

DVD 1885

Midnight cowboy

A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services but spends a hard winter helping a con man.

DVD 299

Next best thing

A woman and her gay boyfriend have a child, but their unconventional family is put to the test when she meets her dream man.

DVD 1897

Pacific Heights

Psychological thriller about two homeowners battling a pathological tenant. Protected by complex eviction laws, this sadistic schemer soon has the couple fighting to save their home and then their lives.

DVD 1721

Sunday bloody Sunday

A young designer shares his sexual favors equally between lovers of different sexes, a Jewish doctor and a lady executive.

DVD 2489