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Tommy

Tommy (1975) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Powell

Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who retreats into himself after the death of his father. His mother, Nora (Ann-Margret), and stepfather Frank (Oliver Reed) take him to see a specialist (Jack Nicholson) but Tommy is apparently a hopeless case. That is, until Tommy discovers that "he sure plays a mean pinball." Tommy gains fame ...

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Women in Love

Women in Love (1969) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron

Women in Love is set in 1920s England, where free-spirited artist Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and her schoolteacher sister Ursula (Jennie Linden) make the acquaintance of lifelong friends Gerald (Oliver Reed) and Rupert (Alan Bates). The foursome attends a picnic in honor of a pair of newlyweds, who put a damper on the proceedings (literally!) by ...

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Whore

Whore (1991) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas, Sanjay, Elizabeth Morehead

Russell's avowed purpose with Whore was to avoid the glamorous depiction of prostitution common to such slick Hollywood products as Pretty Woman. As played by Theresa Russell (no relation to Ken), the eponymous character lives a hellish existence. Relating her story directly to the camera, Russell introduces us to her no-good former husband ...

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Aria

Aria (1988) more movies like this

directed by Bill Bryden, Bruce Beresford, Charles Sturridge, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Jean-Luc Godard, Julien Temple, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, Robert Altman
featuring Theresa Russell, Nicola Swain, Buck Henry, Jackson Kyle, Julie Hagerty, Marianne McLoughlin, Marion Peterson, Tilda Swinton

An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising body-builders, to the more literal approach of Franc Roddam, ...

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Altered States

Altered States (1980) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Drew Barrymore, Thaao Penghlis

In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true role in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments. By enclosing himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and taking hallucinogenic drugs, Jessup hopes to explore different levels of ...

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Gothic

Gothic (1987) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall

Director Ken Russell applies his trademark excess to this surreal, experimental examination of the creative dementia which shaped Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. The story is embellished from events which allegedly took place at the Swiss villa of Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) on the night of June 16, 1816. Byron's guests include poet ...

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The Boy Friend

The Boy Friend (1971) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Ann Jameson, Sally Bryant, Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin

The Boy Friend began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was brought to America in 1954, its star was the teenage Julie Andrews. Because The Boy Friend requires a minimum of sets, props, and costumes, it has become a favorite of amateur theater groups throughout the world. But ...

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Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion (1984) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison

Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) is a cold, workaholic sportswear designer, divorced and dedicated only to her job. Once strapped into that role, Joanna looks for an "out" and finds it by donning a wig and hitting the pavement as a $50/trick hooker named China Blue. Explicit scenes show her at work on her night job, including a long S and M segment ...

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The Devils

The Devils (1971) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones

The Devils was the Ken Russell film version of the controversial play by John Whiting. The story, based on Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun, concerns controversial 17th century French priest Urbain Grandier, whose radical political and religious notions and profligate sex life earn him many enemies. When a group of nuns appears to have been ...

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The Fall of the Louse of Usher

The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2001) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell

Murder, mayhem, insanity, mini-skirted nuns, and inflatable doll orgies are only part of the fun in Ken Russell's predictably debauched ode to Edgar Allen Poe. Very freely adapted from Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Russell's low-budget DV-shot extravaganza is set in the sunny climes of Orange County, CA, where Roderick Usher, a popular yet ...

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Prisoner of Honor (1991) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed

Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence who uncovers several damning pieces of evidence. It turns out that the French government has sent an innocent man to ...

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The Lair of the White Worm (1988) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Sammi Davis, Peter Capaldi

Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm uses Dracula author Bram Stoker's final novel as the basic springboard into a surreal and dark-humored tale concerning a bizarre cult and a series of sacrificial murders in honor of an ancient pagan god. When archeologist Angus Flint (Peter Capaladi) discovers the mysterious scull of an undiscovered beast, ...

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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) more movies like this

directed by Frederic Raphael, Ken Russell, Tony Richardson
featuring Elizabeth McGovern, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Molly Ringwald, Peter Weller

Originally aired on HBO, Women and Men: Stories of Seduction is a short-film anthology that brings to life three famous short stories. Mary McCarthy's "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" stars Elizabeth McGovern and Beau Bridges. The second, Dorothy Parker's "Dusk Before Fireworks," features Peter Weller and Molly Ringwald. The third, "Hills ...

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Tales of Erotica (1994) more movies like this

directed by Bob Rafelson, Charles Zalien, Derrick Boatner, Ken Russell, Mani Kaul, Melvin Van Peebles, Nancy Stone, Paul Cox, Susan Seidelman
featuring Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Mira Sorvino

This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom fixtures salesman and a customer who comes after hours to sample the hot tubs. The next, "The ...

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Dogboys (1998) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Dean Cain, Bryan Brown, Tia Carrere, Sean McCann, Ken James

Ken Russell's Dogboys is set at a southern prison. The title of the film comes from the prisoners who are used to train the attack dogs employed to stop escapes. DA Jennifer Dern (Tia Carrere) is investigating the prison's warden (Bryan Brown). She puts one of her men inside the prison, but he ends up dead from one of the dogs. Inmate Julian ...

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Billion Dollar Brain (1967) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Françoise Dorléac, Oscar Homolka, Ed Begley, Sr.

Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), the reluctant secret agent from The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966) -- both (like the source for this movie) based on novels by Len Deighton -- is back again in Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain. Having left Britain's espionage service, Palmer is scraping out a living as a private investigator, but ...

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Salome's Last Dance (1988) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Imogen Millais-Scott

Ken Russell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome, Salome's Last Dance takes the form of a play within a film. Wilde (Nickolas Grace) arrives at a brothel with his lover, Bosey (aka Lord Alfred Douglas played by Douglas Hodge), where the proprietor, Alfred (Stratford Johns), has gathered his staff and assorted other colorful characters to mount a ...

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Lady Chatterley (1992) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Shirley Ann Field

Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored Lady Chatterley (Joely Richardson), her elderly, infirm husband (James Wilby), and her hot-blooded ...

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Trapped Ashes (2006) more movies like this

directed by Joe Dante, John Gaeta, Ken Russell, Monte Hellman, Sean S. Cunningham
featuring Henry Gibson, Jayce Bartok, Lara Harris, Scott Lowell, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier

The traditional horror anthology makes a triumphant comeback in this collection of four frightfully horrific tales from directors Monte Hellman, Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, John Gaeta, and Joe Dante. When seven strangers accept a mysterious invitation to tour a Hollywood studio lot, they become trapped in a room and discover that their only ...

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In Search of the English Folk Song more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Ken Russell, Siân-Elizabeth Rees, So What, Gary Genna, Bob Appleyard

By all accounts an ardent enthusiast of folk music, iconoclastic and controversial English director Ken Russell (Lisztomania, The Rainbow) headlines the documentary In Search of the English Folk Song. In this program, Russell undertakes a long journey from New Forest, Hampshire, to Cropredy for the Fairport Convention and then to Glastonbury - a ...

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Isadora Duncan (1966) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Ken Russell, Vivian Pickles

Not to be confused with the lavish 1968 biopic Isadora, the black-and-white Isadora Duncan was produced in 1966 for BBC television. Vivian Pickles stars as the free-spirited British ballet artiste of the post-World War I era, while an anonymous double handles the dance sequences. This 65-minute film was one of a series of irreverent biographies ...

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Lisztomania (1975) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Fiona Lewis, Veronica Quilligan

This audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt ranks among director Ken Russell's most outrageous efforts. Roger Daltrey, lead singer for The Who, is awkward yet likeable as the flamboyant piano performer with a bevy of fetching mistresses and groupies, while Paul Nicholas is completely outlandish as the scheming ...

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