Known for Directing
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.
Born
July 21, 1926
Died
November 25, 2002 (age 76)
Birthplace
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Filmography
20 films, 3 shows
Act Without Words I
Act Without Words I
2001 · 16m
country: Ireland
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 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
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 alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...


Everybody Wins
1990 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she is pretending to be either.


Sweet Dreams
1985 · 1h 55m
country: United States
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 · 2h 4m
country: United Kingdom
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, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.


Who'll Stop the Rain
1978 · 2h 6m
country: United States
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.


The Gambler
1974 · 1h 52m
country: United States
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.


Isadora
1968 · 2h 11m
country: France
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 projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.


Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.


Night Must Fall
1964 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
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 unpleasant results for all.


Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
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 · 53m
country: United Kingdom
Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.


March to Aldermaston
1959 · 33m
country: United Kingdom
Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at Easter 1958.


Momma Don't Allow
1956 · 22m
country: United Kingdom
A Free Cinema short documenting a night at the Wood Green Jazz Club, observing youth culture, music, and social dynamics through an unobtrusive, non-narrated style.