Search results for "Ken Russell"
Trapped Ashes

Trapped Ashes

Trapped Ashes
IMDb: 4.7
104

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
Whore

Whore

Whore
IMDb: 5.6
85

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor

Prisoner of Honor
IMDb: 6.6
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…

The Rainbow

The Rainbow

The Rainbow
IMDb: 6.3
113

Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A British Picture

A British Picture

A British Picture
IMDb: 6.7
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…

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
The Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm
IMDb: 6
93

On a farm owned by Eve Trent and her sister Mary, young archaeologist Angus Flint discovers a large and inexplicable skull, which he soon deduces belonged to the D’Ampton Worm,…

Genre: Comedy, Horror
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, and is an…

Genre: Music
Gothic

Gothic

Gothic
IMDb: 5.7
84

Living on 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,…

Genre: Horror
Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion
IMDb: 6.4
107

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who’s attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest…

Altered States

Altered States

Altered States
IMDb: 6.9
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
Tommy

Tommy

Tommy
IMDb: 6.6
111

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

Genre: Drama, Music
Lisztomania

Lisztomania

Lisztomania
IMDb: 6.1
103

In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.

Mahler

Mahler

Mahler
IMDb: 7
115

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

Genre: Drama, Music
Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah

Savage Messiah
IMDb: 6.9
103

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age,…

Genre: Drama
The Devils

The Devils

The Devils
IMDb: 7.7
114

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
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…

Women in Love

Women in Love

Women in Love
IMDb: 7.1
131

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s 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
The Music Lovers

The Music Lovers

The Music Lovers
IMDb: 7.2
123

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.

Genre: Drama, Music
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.

Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain

Billion Dollar Brain
IMDb: 5.9
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
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: 7.3
67

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