Movies by Karel Reisz
As a director:
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Everybody Wins (1990)
Cast: Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton …
Directed by: Karel Reisz
When pretty Angela Crispini (Debra Winger) hires private detective Tom O'Toole (Nick Nolte) to clear a teenager of murder, the rumpled gumshoe dives into the case headfirst. But the more…
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Sweet Dreams (1985)
Cast: Ed Harris, Jessica Lange, Ann Wedgeworth …
Directed by: Karel Reisz
As one of country music's first female stars, Patsy Cline brought sophistication to the Nashville sound. This film chronicles her rise to fame, focusing on her troubled marriage to the…
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae …
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Director Karel Reisz's unforgettable masterwork uses a film-within-a-film framing technique to trace the parallel relationships of two ill-fated couples separated by a century. Meryl…
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Who'll Stop The Rain (1978)
Cast: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty …
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Fresh from Vietnam's battlefields, Ray Hicks (Nick Nolte) does a favor for his buddy John Converse (Michael Moriarty) by smuggling heroin to America. But Ray and Converse's neurotic…
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The Gambler (1974)
Cast: James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky …
Directed by: Karel Reisz
As if getting tenure weren't enough of a gamble, James Caan is a university professor with a big problem: He can't stop betting on games of chance. Karel Reisz directs from a script…
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Morgan! (1966)
Cast: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens …
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Morgan (David Warner) is an artist with his head in the clouds. When his desire to escape reality drives his wife, Leonie (Oscar-nominated Vanessa Redgrave), to divorce, it sends Morgan over…
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961)
Cast: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts …
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Albert Finney stars as a working-class rebel who spends the week tied to a dead-end factory job and the weekend in a haze of booze and empty affairs. But that all changes when he becomes…