Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey

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 Hollywood. In the 1950s Losey was blacklisted in the United States and moved to Europe, where he made the remainder of his films, mostly in the United Kingdom.

  • Title: Joseph Losey
  • Popularity: 3.829
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1909-01-14
  • Place of Birth: La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
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  • Also Known As: Joseph Walton Losey, Joe Losey, Joseph Walton, Andrea Forzano, Terence Hanbury, Victor Hanbury
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Joseph Losey Movies

  • 1976
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    How Yukong Moved the Mountains

    How Yukong Moved the Mountains

    7 1976 HD

    From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking...

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  • 1976
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    Mr. Klein

    Mr. Klein

    7.3 1976 HD

    Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly...

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  • 1978
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    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.3 1978 HD

    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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  • 1962
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    Eva

    Eva

    6 1962 HD

    Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He...

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  • 1980
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    Cinématon VIII

    Cinématon VIII

    1 1980 HD

    Reel 8 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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  • 1981
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    The New Deal for Artists

    The New Deal for Artists

    1 1981 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    The Assassination of Trotsky

    The Assassination of Trotsky

    5.1 1972 HD

    A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

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  • 1960
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    The Criminal

    The Criminal

    6.4 1960 HD

    When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has...

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  • 1951
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    The Prowler

    The Prowler

    6.8 1951 HD

    Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who...

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  • 1971
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    The Go-Between

    The Go-Between

    6.8 1971 HD

    British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress...

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  • 1951
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    M

    M

    6.3 1951 HD

    Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal'...

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  • 1975
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    The Romantic Englishwoman

    The Romantic Englishwoman

    5.5 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    Modesty Blaise

    Modesty Blaise

    5.2 1966 HD

    Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government...

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  • 1951
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    The Big Night

    The Big Night

    6.9 1951 HD

    A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.

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  • 1951
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    The Big Night

    The Big Night

    6.9 1951 HD

    A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father.

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  • 1959
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    Blind Date

    Blind Date

    6 1959 HD

    Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose...

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  • 1957
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    Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity

    6.6 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    The Servant

    The Servant

    7.6 1963 HD

    Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a...

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  • 1963
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    The Servant

    The Servant

    7.6 1963 HD

    Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a...

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  • 1979
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    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni

    6.9 1979 HD

    Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's...

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  • 1948
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    The Boy with Green Hair

    The Boy with Green Hair

    6.2 1948 HD

    Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new...

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  • 1950
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    The Lawless

    The Lawless

    5.8 1950 HD

    A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

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  • 1979
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    Don Giovanni

    Don Giovanni

    6.9 1979 HD

    Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's...

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  • 1968
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    Secret Ceremony

    Secret Ceremony

    5.9 1968 HD

    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.

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  • 1962
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    The Damned

    The Damned

    6.2 1962 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    The Trout

    The Trout

    6 1982 HD

    The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two...

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  • 1982
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    The Trout

    The Trout

    6 1982 HD

    The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two...

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  • 1967
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    Accident

    Accident

    6.2 1967 HD

    Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students,...

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  • 1967
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    Accident

    Accident

    6.2 1967 HD

    Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students,...

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  • 1952
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    Stranger on the Prowl

    Stranger on the Prowl

    6.4 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    The Sleeping Tiger

    The Sleeping Tiger

    5.6 1954 HD

    A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who...

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  • 1954
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    The Sleeping Tiger

    The Sleeping Tiger

    5.6 1954 HD

    A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who...

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  • 1956
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    Finger of Guilt

    Finger of Guilt

    5.8 1956 HD

    Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio...

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  • 1968
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    Boom!

    Boom!

    6.2 1968 HD

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

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  • 1962
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    Eva

    Eva

    6 1962 HD

    Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He...

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  • 1976
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    Mr. Klein

    Mr. Klein

    7.3 1976 HD

    Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly...

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  • 1964
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    King and Country

    King and Country

    7.048 1964 HD

    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,...

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  • 1970
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    Figures in a Landscape

    Figures in a Landscape

    6 1970 HD

    Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black...

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  • 1945
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    A Gun in His Hand

    A Gun in His Hand

    5.7 1945 HD

    In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local...

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  • 1985
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    Steaming

    Steaming

    5.4 1985 HD

    Steaming is the final film directed by Joseph Losey. It was adapted from Nell Dunn's play by Patricia Losey and Nell Dunn. It is about three women...

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  • 1975
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    Galileo

    Galileo

    5.9 1975 HD

    Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion...

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  • 1975
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    Galileo

    Galileo

    5.9 1975 HD

    Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion...

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  • 1939
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    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    6.5 1939 HD

    Pete Roleum, an oil droplet, narrates a presentation about the history and uses of oil: He starts by introducing some of his relations, with...

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  • 1958
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    The Gypsy and the Gentleman

    The Gypsy and the Gentleman

    5.5 1958 HD

    A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.

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  • 1973
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    A Doll's House

    A Doll's House

    4.8 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    A Child Went Forth

    A Child Went Forth

    7 1942 HD

    A line from Whitman, "There was a child went forth every day," starts this film: a visit to a farm that's a summer camp and progressive school for...

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  • 1978
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    Roads to the South

    Roads to the South

    3.6 1978 HD

    France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his...

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  • 1941
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    Youth Gets a Break

    Youth Gets a Break

    1 1941 HD

    Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.

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  • 1941
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    Youth Gets a Break

    Youth Gets a Break

    1 1941 HD

    Short subject commissioned by the National Youth Association to show their efforts at providing job training for unemployed poor youth.

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  • 1955
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    A Man on the Beach

    A Man on the Beach

    5.5 1955 HD

    This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat obvious plot twists but a acertain amount of...

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  • 1947
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    Leben des Galilei

    Leben des Galilei

    1 1947 HD

    Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel...

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  • 1958
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    مجرم في إجازة

    مجرم في إجازة

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1939
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    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    6.5 1939 HD

    Pete Roleum, an oil droplet, narrates a presentation about the history and uses of oil: He starts by introducing some of his relations, with...

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  • 1939
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    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

    6.5 1939 HD

    Pete Roleum, an oil droplet, narrates a presentation about the history and uses of oil: He starts by introducing some of his relations, with...

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  • 1964
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    King and Country

    King and Country

    7.048 1964 HD

    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,...

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  • 1959
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    First on the Road

    First on the Road

    1 1959 HD

    A short film by Joseph Losey.

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  • 1973
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    A Doll's House

    A Doll's House

    4.8 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    The Assassination of Trotsky

    The Assassination of Trotsky

    5.1 1972 HD

    A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 1976
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    30 millions d'amis

    30 millions d'amis

    5.8 1976 HD

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