Search results for "Ken Russell"
Dante’s Inferno

Dante’s Inferno

Dante’s Inferno
IMDb: 7.2
90

The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.

Genre: Drama, Music, TV Movie
Aria

Aria

Aria
IMDb: 5.7
96

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner),…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Salome’s Last Dance

Salome’s Last Dance

Salome’s Last Dance
IMDb: 6.4
89

London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor,…

Genre: Drama
A British Picture

A British Picture

A British Picture
IMDb: 6.8
50

The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and The Rainbow, is as unconventional and brilliant as…

Genre: Documentary
Tommy

Tommy

Tommy
IMDb: 6.6
111

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

Genre: Drama, Music
The Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm
IMDb: 5.9
93

In a remote corner of England’s Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping – very erotically…

Altered States

Altered States

Altered States
IMDb: 6.8
102

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that…

Valentino

Valentino

Valentino
IMDb: 6.1
128

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide…

Genre: Drama, History
The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend
IMDb: 6.8
137

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
IMDb: 7.2
63

The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as “part genius and part charlatan”.

Genre: Documentary
The Devils

The Devils

The Devils
IMDb: 7.7
113

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of…

Genre: Drama, History
Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor
IMDb: 6.5
88

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted…

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion
IMDb: 6.3
107

Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class prostitute China Blue. As she is accused…

Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain
IMDb: 6
111

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

Genre: Thriller
Women in Love

Women in Love

Women in Love
IMDb: 7.1
131

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920’s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Gothic

Gothic

Gothic
IMDb: 5.6
84

Living in an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron’s lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances,…

The Music Lovers

The Music Lovers

The Music Lovers
IMDb: 7.1
123

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.

Genre: Drama, Music
The Rainbow

The Rainbow

The Rainbow
IMDb: 6.2
113

Ken Russell’s rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rainbow” sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah
IMDb: 6.9
103

The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”

Genre: Drama
Lisztomania

Lisztomania

Lisztomania
IMDb: 6.1
103

Composer and pianist Franz Liszt attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner.

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Mahler

Mahler

Mahler
IMDb: 6.9
115

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

Genre: Drama, Music
Whore

Whore

Whore
IMDb: 5.5
85

This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Genre: Drama
Trapped Ashes

Trapped Ashes

Trapped Ashes
IMDb: 4.7
105

Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they’ll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.

Genre: Horror