Ken Russell — Director (34)
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Tommy (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Tommy
director: Ken Russell actor: Oliver Reed / Ann-Margret …
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
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Lady Chatterley (1993) [TV] TMDB
Lady Chatterley
director: Ken Russell actor: Joely Richardson / Sean Bean …
Lady Constance Chatterley is married to the handicapped Sir Clifford Chatterley, who was wounded in the First World War. When they move to his family's estate, Constance (Connie) meets their tough-yet-quiet groundskeeper, Oliver Mellors. Soon, she discovers that the source of her unhappiness is from not being fulfilled in love, and in turning to the arms of Mellors, she has a sexual awakening that will change her thoughts forever.
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Altered States (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
Altered States
director: Ken Russell actor: William Hurt / Blair Brown …
other title: Stati di allucinazione / Eksperimentet …
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.
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Women in Love (1969) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
Women in Love
director: Ken Russell actor: Alan Bates / Oliver Reed …
other title: Donne in amore / Liebende Frauen …
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s 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.
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French Dressing (1964) [Movie] TMDB
French Dressing
director: Ken Russell actor: James Booth / Roy Kinnear …
other title: Abbigliamento francese / Versuch's mal auf Französisch …
A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.
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The Boy Friend (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Boy Friend
director: Ken Russell actor: Twiggy / Christopher Gable …
other title: Il boy Friend / Boyfriend (Ihr Liebhaber) …
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.
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Crimes of Passion (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Crimes of Passion
director: Ken Russell actor: Kathleen Turner / Anthony Perkins …
other title: China Blue / As Noites de China Blue …
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
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Gothic (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gothic
director: Ken Russell actor: Gabriel Byrne / Julian Sands …
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
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Whore (1991) [Movie] TMDB
Whore
director: Ken Russell actor: Theresa Russell / Benjamin Mouton …
other title: Whore - Puttana / A Prostituta …
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
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A Kitten for Hitler (2007) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
A Kitten for Hitler
director: Ken Russell actor: Rusty Goffe / Lisi Tribble …
other title: Ein Kitten für Hitler
The result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler – a 10-minute short in which a plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Führer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline.
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A House in Bayswater (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A House in Bayswater
director: Ken Russell actor: Helen May
A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The building is demolished to make way for an unattractive and bland office.
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Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dance of the Seven Veils
director: Ken Russell actor: Christopher Gable / Judith Paris …
Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. Strauss is depicted in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche’s philosophy, duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music, and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies.
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Peepshow (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Peepshow
director: Ken Russell actor: Shirley Russell / Norman Dewhurst …
other title: Peep Show
A parable made in the manner of an old silent comedy about artistry and illusion.
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Antonio Gaudí (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Antonio Gaudí
director: Ken Russell actor: Huw Wheldon / Antoni Gaudi
A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence on Picasso. (BFI)
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Lisztomania (1975) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Lisztomania
director: Ken Russell actor: Roger Daltrey / Sara Kestelman …
other title: Fed musik og sex på drengen
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.
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Valentino (1977) [Movie]
Valentino
director: Ken Russell actor: Rudolf Nureyev / Leslie Caron …
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
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Billion Dollar Brain (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Billion Dollar Brain
director: Ken Russell actor: Michael Caine / Karl Malden …
other title: Il cervello da un miliardo di dollari / Milliard dollar hjernen …
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
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Salome's Last Dance (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Salome's Last Dance
director: Ken Russell actor: Glenda Jackson / Stratford Johns …
other title: L'ultima Salomè / Salomes letzter Tanz …
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
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The Rainbow (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Rainbow
director: Ken Russell actor: Sammi Davis / Paul McGann …
other title: La vita è un arcobaleno / Der Regenbogen …
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition. The free-spirited Ursula begins to feel trapped by her prim surroundings, but her life changes when she has an erotic experience with Winifred, a bisexual teacher. From then on, Ursula puts all of her passion and creativity into the pursuit of sexual fulfillment. But her insatiable quest becomes a source of anguish.