Editing Dirk Bogarde (section)

===Art house and European cinema===
After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image and "chose roles that challenged received morality and that pushed the scope of cinema".<ref name="BBC"/> He starred in the film ''[[Victim (1961 film)|Victim]]'' (1961), playing a London [[barrister]] who fights the blackmailers of a young man with whom he has had a deeply emotional relationship. The young man commits suicide after being arrested for embezzlement, rather than ruin his beloved's career. In exposing the ring of extortionists, Bogarde's character risks his reputation and marriage to see that justice is done. ''Victim'' was the first British film to portray the humiliation to which gay people were exposed via discriminatory law and as a victimised minority; it is said to have had some effect upon the later [[Sexual Offences Act 1967]] ending, to some extent, the illegal status of male homosexual activity.
[[File:Dirk Bogarde Jane Birkin Cannes.jpg|thumb|Bogarde with [[Jane Birkin]], co-star in ''[[Daddy Nostalgie]]'' at the [[1990 Cannes Film Festival]]]]
He again teamed up with Joseph Losey to play Hugo Barrett, a decadent valet, in ''[[The Servant (1963 film)|The Servant]]'' (1963), with a script by [[Harold Pinter]], and which garnered Bogarde a [[BAFTA]] Award. That year also saw the release of ''[[The Mind Benders (1963 film)|The Mind Benders]]'', in which he played a professor conducting [[sensory deprivation]] experiments at [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]] (and which anticipates ''[[Altered States]]'' (1980)). The following year saw another collaboration with Losey in the antiwar film ''[[King and Country]]'', in which Bogarde played an army officer at a [[court-martial]], reluctantly defending deserter [[Tom Courtenay]]. He won a second BAFTA for his role as a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in ''[[Darling (1965 film)|Darling]]'' (1965), directed by [[John Schlesinger]]. Bogarde, Losey and Pinter reunited for ''[[Accident (1967 film)|Accident]]'' (1967), which recounted the travails of Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor.

''[[Our Mother's House]]'' (1967) is an off-beat film noir and the British entry at the [[Venice Film Festival]], directed by [[Jack Clayton]], in which Bogarde plays a ne'er-do-well father who descends upon "his" seven children on the death of their mother. In his first collaboration with [[Luchino Visconti]] in ''La Caduta degli dei'' (''[[The Damned (1969 film)|The Damned]]'', 1969), Bogarde played German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann alongside [[Ingrid Thulin]]. Two years later Visconti was back at the helm when Bogarde portrayed Gustav von Aschenbach in ''Morte a Venezia'' (''[[Death in Venice (film)|Death in Venice]]'').<ref name="bbc2021">{{cite news |last1=Kaufman |first1=Sophie Monks |title=Why Dirk Bogarde was a truly dangerous film star |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210322-why-dirk-bogarde-was-a-truly-dangerous-film-star |access-date=2 April 2021 |publisher=BBC Culture |date=22 March 2021}}</ref> In 1974, the controversial ''Il Portiere di notte'' (''[[The Night Porter]]'') saw Bogarde cast as an ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, co-starring [[Charlotte Rampling]], and directed by [[Liliana Cavani]]. He played Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ([[John Gielgud]]) in the well-received, multidimensional French film ''[[Providence (1977 film)|Providence]]'' (1977), directed by [[Alain Resnais]], and industrialist Hermann Hermann, who descends into madness in ''[[Despair (film)|Despair]]'' (1978) directed by [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]. "It was the best performance I've ever done in my life," he later recounted. "Fassbinder... really screwed the film up. He tore it to pieces with a scissors."<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 October 1992 |title=About Face: Sir Dirk Bogarde |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/search?q=dirk+bogarde |access-date=13 October 2022 |website=BBC}}</ref> This led to Bogarde going on an extended hiatus. "And I thought, 'OK. Give it up'. So I gave it up and I didn't do another film for fourteen years." He returned one last time, as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's ''[[Daddy Nostalgie]]'', (or ''These Foolish Things'') (1991), co-starring [[Jane Birkin]] as his daughter.