Joseph Losey — Director (12)
Roads to the South (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Les Routes du sud
director: Joseph Losey actor: Yves Montand / Miou-Miou
other title: Le strade del sud / Straßen nach Süden
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
Stranger on the Prowl (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Imbarco a mezzanotte
director: Joseph Losey actor: Paul Muni / Joan Lorring
other title: Imbarco a mezzanotte / Un homme à détruire
A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls.
Blind Date (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Blind Date
director: Joseph Losey actor: Hardy Krüger / Stanley Baker
other title: L'inchiesta dell'ispettore Morgan / Encontro Fatal
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
Time Without Pity (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Time Without Pity
director: Joseph Losey actor: Michael Redgrave / Ann Todd
other title: L'alibi dell'ultima ora / Tempo Impiedoso
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Galileo (1975) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Galileo
director: Joseph Losey actor: Chaim Topol / Edward Fox
other title: La vida de Galileo
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
A Doll's House (1973) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Doll's House
director: Joseph Losey actor: Jane Fonda / Edward Fox
other title: Casa di bambola / A Casa da Boneca
Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine prompts Nora to re-evaluate her life and confront Torvald.