Ken Russell Movies

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

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

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

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

This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.

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

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

A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes.

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

An irreverent survey of British Music.

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

Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the...

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

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...

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

Marine veteran and former middleweight boxing champion Julian Taylor loses control in a bar fight and ends up serving time for aggravated assault....

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

A writer taking a rest in a country hotel is obsessed with a strange woman in the same hotel. The woman seems to observe him in provocative ways, but...

Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele was first performed in 1868 and his most known work. In Ken Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese...

A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BBC arts series Monitor.