John Schlesinger Movies

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

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...

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...

Schlesinger’s short captures Londoners enjoying their day of rest

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."