Watch Order
0 / 8 watchedEight key features in release order.
About John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger broke through with Billy Liar in 1963, a northern comedy drama with Tom Courtenay, then won attention for Darling in 1965 with Julie Christie. Midnight Cowboy followed in 1969, shot in New York with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, winning best picture and best director. Sunday Bloody Sunday arrived in 1971, a London relationship drama.
The Day of the Locust came in 1975, a Hollywood portrait from the Nathanael West novel, then Marathon Man in 1976, a New York thriller with Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Yanks followed in 1979 on US soldiers in wartime Britain, then Pacific Heights in 1990, a San Francisco tenant thriller. Schlesinger died in 2003, so the filmography is closed. Watch in release order.
Good to know
These are standalone stories with no shared continuity, so release order is the viewing order. Sunday Bloody Sunday is often listed as Sunday, Bloody Sunday with a comma in older credits. The Day of the Locust adapts one novel and is not connected to Marathon Man beyond back to back seventies releases. This guide picks eight central titles, skipping TV work like An Englishman Abroad and later thrillers to keep the path short.
