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, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

Modesty Blaise

1966

English

5.0

♡ 13

50%

Joseph Losey Director

Alexander Knox as Minister

Monica Vitti as Modesty Blaise

Oliver MacGreevy as Tattooed Man

Terence Stamp as Willie Garvin

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 as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975

English

6.0

♡ 16

80%

38%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Joseph Losey Director

Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth

Kate Nelligan as Isabel

Michael Caine as Lewis

Helmut Berger as Thomas

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 to overcome his writer's block.

Stranger on the Prowl

1952

Italian

6.5

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Joseph Losey Director

Joan Lorring as Angela, a lonely woman

Leonardo Scavino as Mancini

Linda Sini as Signora Raffetto

Alfredo Varelli as The Neighborhood Patrolman

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.

Secret Ceremony

1968

English

6.3

♡ 6

64%

Joseph Losey Director

Robert Mitchum as Albert

Roger Lloyd Pack as Cleaner

Michael Strong as Dr. Walter Stevens

Penelope Keith as Hotel Assistant

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.

Eva

1962

English

♡ 6

64%

older woman seduces younger guy

Joseph Losey Director

James Villiers as Alan McCormick - a screenwriter

Riccardo Garrone as Michele - a player

Giorgio Albertazzi as Sergio Branco Malloni - a movie director

Stanley Baker as Tyvian Jones

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 falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.

The Damned

1962

English

6.6

♡ 9

Joseph Losey Director

James Villiers as Captain Gregory

Walter Gotell as Major Holland

Kenneth Cope as Sid

Tom Kempinski as Ted

An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.

Don Giovanni

1979

Italian

7.5

♡ 3

100%

Joseph Losey Director

Guglielmo Spoletini as

Cristina Fondi as

Patrizia Murari as

Sandro Dal Pra as

Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last chance to repent for his multitudinious improprieties. He will not change his ways So, he is sucked down into hell by evil spirits. High drama, hysterical comedy, magnificent music!

Steaming

1985

English

5.7

♡ 3

36%

Action

Drama

Joseph Losey Director

Felicity Dean as Dawn

Vanessa Redgrave as Nancy

Sarah Miles as Sarah

Diana Dors as Violet

Englishwomen band together when they learn that the public bathhouse they frequent for relaxation will be closed down.

Roads to the South

5.5

franco regime (francoism)

older man younger woman relationship

paris, france

spain

Joseph Losey Director

France Lambiotte as Ève Larréa

Yves Montand as Jean Larréa

Miou-Miou as Julia

Eugene Braun Munk as Le producteur Egon

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.)

Time Without Pity

1957

English

6.8

♡ 5

70%

Joseph Losey Director

Ann Todd as Honor Stanford

Peter Cushing as Jeremy Clayton

Leo McKern as Robert Stanford

Lois Maxwell as Vickie Harker

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.”

Mr. Klein

1976

French

7.5

♡ 14

100%

Joseph Losey Director

Massimo Girotti as Charles

Alain Delon as Mr. Robert Klein

Tina Aumont as Nightclub customer

Michael Lonsdale as Pierre

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.

The Sleeping Tiger

1954

English

6.5

♡ 3

42%

Joseph Losey Director

Alexander Knox as Dr. Clive Esmond

Alexis Smith as Glenda Esmond

Harry Towb as Harry, second criminal

Jimmy Charters as Jazz Club Patron

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 wishes to seduce him.

The Boy with Green Hair

1948

English

6.7

♡ 4

80%

Joseph Losey Director

Peter Brocco as Bit Part

Pat O'Brien as Gramp

Dwayne Hickman as Joey

Regis Toomey as Mr. Davis

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 caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.

The Servant

1963

English

7.7

♡ 14

90%

Joseph Losey Director

Harold Pinter as People in restaurant: Society Man

Aileen Lewis as Restaurant Diner

Wendy Craig as Susan

James Fox as Tony

Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.

Boom!

1968

English

5.5

♡ 7

20%

Joseph Losey Director

Richard Burton as Chris Flanders

Elizabeth Taylor as Flora 'Sissy' Goforth

Michael Dunn as Rudi

Noel Coward as The Witch of Capri

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

X the Unknown

1956

English

6.1

♡ 7

67%

Joseph Losey Director

Leo McKern as Insp. 'Mac' McGill

John Harvey as Maj. Cartwright

Kenneth Cope as Sapper Lansing

Edwin Richfield as Soldier Burned on Back

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.

Accident

1967

English

6.8

♡ 7

76%

71%

Action

based on novel or book

Joseph Losey Director

Jacqueline Sassard as Anna

Terence Rigby as Plain Clothed Policeman

Alexander Knox as Provost

Harold Pinter as TV Producer Bell

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, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.

The Concrete Jungle

1960

English

6.8

♡ 5

86%

Joseph Losey Director

Maxwell Shaw as 1st Man at Party

Kenneth Cope as Kelly

Sam Wanamaker as Mike Carter

Aileen Lewis as Racegoer

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 stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.

The Go-Between

1971

English

7.1

♡ 8

100%

78%

Action

based on novel or book

Joseph Losey Director

Roger Lloyd Pack as Charles

Margaret Leighton as Mrs. Maudsley

Jim Broadbent as Spectator at Cricket Match

Alan Bates as Ted Burgess

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.

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Modesty Blaise

The Romantic Englishwoman

Stranger on the Prowl

Secret Ceremony

Eva

The Damned

Don Giovanni

Steaming

Roads to the South

Time Without Pity

Mr. Klein

The Sleeping Tiger

The Boy with Green Hair

The Servant

Boom!

X the Unknown

Accident

The Concrete Jungle

The Go-Between