Ken Russell Movies

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.

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...

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

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

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple...

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

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...

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.

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

A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.

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

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

An irreverent survey of British Music.

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...

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

Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics.

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

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

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