Skip to content
CineRank

John Schlesinger

Director · 47 credits · 26 in highly-rated films

Best known for Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Frequent collaborators: Alan Cooke, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Large

Best John Schlesinger movies by genre

Directed movies (32 total, ranked by score)

  1. Marathon Man

    1976 · ★ 7.2 (1,259 votes)

    Thriller, Crime, Drama

    1

  2. Darling

    1965 · ★ 6.8 (153 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    2

  3. Far from the Madding Crowd

    1967 · ★ 6.9 (107 votes)

    Drama, History, Romance

    3

  4. Pacific Heights

    1990 · ★ 6.3 (430 votes)

    Thriller, Drama, Mystery

    4

  5. The Falcon and the Snowman

    1985 · ★ 6.4 (180 votes)

    Thriller, Drama, Crime

    5

  6. Billy Liar

    1963 · ★ 6.8 (126 votes)

    Comedy, Romance, Drama

    6

  7. The Day of the Locust

    1975 · ★ 6.4 (113 votes)

    Drama

    7

  8. Sunday Bloody Sunday

    1971 · ★ 6.6 (140 votes)

    Drama

    8

  9. A Kind of Loving

    1962 · ★ 7.1 (61 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    9

  10. Eye for an Eye

    1996 · ★ 6.3 (481 votes)

    Thriller, Drama

    10

  11. Cold Comfort Farm

    1995 · ★ 6.8 (80 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    11

  12. Madame Sousatzka

    1988 · ★ 6.9 (22 votes)

    Drama, Music

    12

  13. Visions of Eight

    1973 · ★ 7.1 (17 votes)

    Documentary

    13

  14. The Believers

    1987 · ★ 5.9 (188 votes)

    Horror, Mystery, Thriller

    14

  15. Yanks

    1979 · ★ 5.9 (65 votes)

    Romance, Drama, War

    15

  16. Separate Tables

    1983 · ★ 6.6 (7 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie

    16

  17. Terminus

    1961 · ★ 7.1 (16 votes)

    Documentary

    17

  18. Der Rosenkavalier

    1985 · ★ 7.5 (2 votes)

    Music, TV Movie

    18

  19. A Question of Attribution

    1991 · ★ 6.6 (8 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie

    19

  20. Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    1981 · ★ 6.6 (4 votes)

    Drama, Music, TV Movie

    20

  21. The Innocent

    1993 · ★ 6.1 (31 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    21

  22. An Englishman Abroad

    1983 · ★ 6.1 (11 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie

    22

  23. The Tale of Sweeney Todd

    1998 · ★ 5.7 (19 votes)

    Horror, Mystery, TV Movie

    23

  24. The Starfish

    1952 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Fantasy, Horror

    24

  25. Honky Tonk Freeway

    1981 · ★ 5.3 (25 votes)

    Comedy

    25

  26. The Next Best Thing

    2000 · ★ 5.2 (205 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Romance

    26

  27. Sunday in the Park

    1956

    Documentary

    27

  28. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

    1990

    28

  29. Wakes Week in Blackburn

    1957

    29

  30. The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann

    2016

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.