Search results for "Ken Russell"

Prisoner of Honor (1991)

Prisoner of Honor (1991)

Prisoner of Honor (1991)
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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…

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Whore (1991)

Whore (1991)

Whore (1991)
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This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Rainbow (1989)

The Rainbow (1989)

The Rainbow (1989)
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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…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible (1989)

A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible (1989)

A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible (1989)
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The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and The Rainbow, is as unconventional and brilliant as…

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Genre: Documentary
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
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When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Salome’s Last Dance (1988)

Salome’s Last Dance (1988)

Salome’s Last Dance (1988)
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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,…

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Genre: Drama
Gothic (1987)

Gothic (1987)

Gothic (1987)
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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,…

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Genre: Horror
Crimes of Passion (1984)

Crimes of Passion (1984)

Crimes of Passion (1984)
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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…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Altered States (1980)

Altered States (1980)

Altered States (1980)
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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…

Valentino (1977)

Valentino (1977)

Valentino (1977)
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The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Genre: Drama, History
Lisztomania (1975)

Lisztomania (1975)

Lisztomania (1975)
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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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Genre: Comedy, History, Music
Tommy (1975)

Tommy (1975)

Tommy (1975)
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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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Genre: Drama, Music
Mahler (1974)

Mahler (1974)

Mahler (1974)
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Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

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Genre: Drama, Music
Savage Messiah (1972)

Savage Messiah (1972)

Savage Messiah (1972)
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In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age,…

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Genre: Drama
The Boy Friend (1971)

The Boy Friend (1971)

The Boy Friend (1971)
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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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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Devils (1971)

The Devils (1971)

The Devils (1971)
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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…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Music Lovers (1971)

The Music Lovers (1971)

The Music Lovers (1971)
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Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.

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Genre: Drama, Music
Women in Love (1969)

Women in Love (1969)

Women in Love (1969)
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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…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Dante’s Inferno (1967)

Dante’s Inferno (1967)

Dante’s Inferno (1967)
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The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.

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Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)

Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
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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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Genre: Thriller
Isadora Duncan the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)

Isadora Duncan the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)

Isadora Duncan the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966)
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The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as “part genius and part charlatan”.

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Genre: Documentary
Always on Sunday (1965)

Always on Sunday (1965)

Always on Sunday (1965)
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Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

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