Biography
Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker who was active in post–war Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karel Reisz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Karel Reisz, Ten filmový život
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton
2003
as Self
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and Au...
Act Without Words I
2001
Director
A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.
The Deep Blue Sea
1994
Director
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors...
Everybody Wins
1990
Director
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers dee...
Sweet Dreams
1985
Director
The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
Director
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...
The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as Self - Interviewee
1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter Haro...
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978
Director
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...
The Gambler
1974
Director
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add...
Isadora
1968
Director
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance pro...
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
Director
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional b...
Night Must Fall
1964
Director, Producer
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleas...
This Sporting Life
1963
Producer
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by l...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960
Director
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
We Are the Lambeth Boys
1959
Director
Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1...
March to Aldermaston
1959
Director
Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at Easter ...
Every Day Except Christmas
1957
Producer
Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the...
Momma Don't Allow
1956
Director, Writer
A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.