Watch movies directed by Ken Russell

Trapped Ashes

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

NR

5.1

2006 Horror 105 min Play

5.7

Tales of Erotica

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

NR

5.7

1996 Comedy 170 min Play

5

The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch

A short directed by Ken Russell.

NR

5

1995 Comedy 29 min Play

4

The Secret Life of Arnold Bax

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

NR

4

1992 TV Movie 60 min Play

6.3

Prisoner of Honor

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage in 1894.

NR

6.3

1991 Drama 88 min Play

5.6

Whore

This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

NC-17

5.6

1991 Drama 85 min Play

5.2

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

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

R

5.2

1990 Drama 83 min Play

6

The Lair of the White Worm

In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.

R

6

1988 Comedy 93 min Play

5.8

Aria

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

R

5.8

1987 Comedy 90 min Play

5.7

Gothic

The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - ...

R

5.7

1986 Drama 84 min Play

6.5

Crimes of Passion

Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class prostitute China Blue. As she is accused for industrial spying, Bobby Grady is hired to shadow her. However, they fall in love. Meanwhile a psychopathic preacher starts stalking her.

R

6.5

1984 Crime 107 min Play

6.7

Altered States

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

R

6.7

1980 Horror 102 min Play

6

Valentino

In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...

R

6

1977 Drama 128 min Play

5.9

Lisztomania

Composer and pianist Franz Liszt attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner.

R

5.9

1975 Comedy 103 min Play

6.5

Tommy

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

PG

6.5

1975 Drama 111 min Play

6.8

Mahler

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

NR

6.8

1974 Drama 115 min Play

6.6

Savage Messiah

The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”

R

6.6

1972 Drama 103 min Play

6.5

The Boy Friend

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.

NR

6.5

1971 Comedy 137 min Play

6.5

The Music Lovers

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.

R

6.5

1971 Drama 123 min Play

7.5

The Devils

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

R

7.5

1971 Drama 111 min Play

6.6

Women in Love

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

R

6.6

1969 Drama 131 min Play

5.6

Billion Dollar Brain

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

NR

5.6

1967 Thriller 111 min Play

6.4

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

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

NR

6.4

1966 Documentary 63 min Play