Ken Russell Movies

Corrupt officers track men for sport with dogs.

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

Ken Russell's 1995 TV movie adaptation. This is a re-working of the Treasure Island theme with Long Jane Silver instead of Long John Silver. Hetty...

A short promotional film for the 2010 Oldenburg Film Festival consisting of various actors and film personalities telling a joke about an...

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very...

A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a...

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which...

A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.

In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness...

Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and...

Ken Russell is often cited as one of the fathers of the music video, with Tommy (1975) widely recognised as one of the pivotal works in the...

A parable made in the manner of an old silent comedy about artistry and illusion.

Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano...

Prokofiev (BBC, tx. 18/6/1961), subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', was the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics, though it takes a rather...

A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence...

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the...

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

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