Ken Russell Movies

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a...

Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their...

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.

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

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...

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

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

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...

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