Joseph Losey Movies

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…

Remake of the 1931 original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the ‘normal’ criminals, and the local hoods decide to…

This 25-minute short (original running time at the 1939 World’s Fair and in its theatrical bookings) was made by Petroleum Industry to be primarily at the NYC 1939 World’s Fair,…

Film version of playwright Tennessee Williams’ “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” involves very wealthy Flora ‘Sissy’ Goforth, supposedly dying, and living in a large mansion on a secluded…

This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.

George La Main, just turned 17, suffers growing pains and is anxious to prove his manhood. That night, George’s adored father Andy is savagely beaten by sportswriter Al Judge. Traumatized…

British Army radiation drills at a remote Scottish base attract a subterranean, radioactive entity of unknown nature that vanishes, leaving two severely radiation-burned soldiers… and a “bottomless” crack in the…

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…

An ex-con who’s taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison, but he won’t tell his fellow gang members where he’s stashed the…

The middle-aged American Simon Wells sails in his boat to Weymouth and stumbles with the twenty year-old Joan on the street. He believes that she is a prostitute but she…

Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. She encounters a strange waif-like girl, Cenci, who bears a strong resemblance to her lost child. Cenci…

Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination…

Three female frequenters of a steam room decide to fight its closure.

What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer’s block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth…

During World War One, the British troops are entrenched at Passchendaele, Belgium. Among the volunteers there is a young British soldier, Arthur Hamp, who is the sole survivor of his…

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…

The Oxford professor of philosophy Stephen has two favorite pupils, the athletic aristocrat William and the Austrian Anna von Graz. Stephen is a frustrated man, with a negligent wife, Rosalind,…

Two escapees (Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell) are on the run in an unspecified but seemingly Latin-American country. Everywhere they go they are observed and hounded by a menacing black…

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo turns 13. He’s the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by…

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has…

A married movie studio executive’s life, starts to fall apart when he is intimately stalked by a beautiful woman he claims he does not know.

The aristocratic Tony moves to London and hires the servant Hugo Barrett for all services at home. Barrett seems to be a loyal and competent employee, but Tony’s girlfriend Susan…

A psychotherapist attempts to rehabilitate a convict in his home after he breaks in. The criminal cooperates rather than being handed over to the police. The therapist’s wife becomes infatuated…