List of the best Ken Russell movies: The Music Lovers(1971), Women in Love(1969), Altered States(1980), Savage Messiah(1972), The Boy Friend(1971), Salome's Last Dance(1988), Crimes of Passion(1984), Valentino(1977), Billion Dollar Brain(1967), French Dressing(1964), The Lair of the White Worm(1988), Aria(1987) ... ...
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
UK
1971
123 Minutes
Director
Richard Chamberlain Glenda Jackson Max Adrian Christopher Gable Kenneth Colley Izabella Telezynska
Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance
UK
1969
130 Minutes
Director
Alan Bates Glenda Jackson Oliver Reed Jennie Linden Eleanor Bron Alan Webb Vladek Sheybal Catherine Willmer Phoebe Nicholls Sharon Gurney Christopher Gable
husband teacher wife best friend sculptor passionate hedonistic england switzerland wedding lake sexual awakening infidelity honeymoon friendship siblings relationships forbidden love discovery adventure
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
Sci-Fi
USA
1980
103 Minutes
Director
William Hurt Blair Brown Bob Balaban Charles Haid Thaao Penghlis Miguel Godreau Dori Brenner Peter Brandon Charles White Eagle Drew Barrymore Megan Jeffers
scientist psychologist wife creepy intense shocking university mexico united states experiments drugs psychology marital problems discovery metamorphosis 1970s
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Biography, Drama
UK
1972
100 Minutes
Director
Dorothy Tutin Scott Antony Helen Mirren Lindsay Kemp Michael Gough John Justin Aubrey Richards Peter Vaughan
sculptor governess writer suffragette muse creative fascinating inspiring melodramatic paris london artist's studio art artistic struggle henri gaudier may-december romance world war i sculpting rise transformation
Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony).
Musical, Comedy
UK|USA
1971
136 Minutes
Director
Twiggy Christopher Gable Max Adrian Moyra Fraser Bryan Pringle Catherine Willmer Murray Melvin Georgina Hale Sally Bryant Vladek Sheybal Tommy Tune
director actor stage manager chorus girl spectacular campy england small town stage theater production stardom ambition movies song and dance underdog love 1920s
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, becoming a star and finding love in the process.
Drama
UK|USA
1988
89 Minutes
Director
playwright actor prostitute love interest young man amusing frenetic wild sultry brothel stage oscar wilde theater censorship sexual taboo story within a story homosexuality forbidden love adventure temptation
Guy Fawkes Day, 1892. Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome'. The 'theatre's a brothel and the performers... prostitutes.
Drama
USA
1984
101 Minutes
Director
Kathleen Turner Anthony Perkins John Laughlin Annie Potts Bruce Davison
prostitute father priest businessman fashion designer store owner hedonistic shocking sultry outlandish los angeles street motel store apartment double life prostitution adultery stalking voyeurism
A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher.
Drama
UK|USA
1977
127 Minutes
Director
leading man actress wife manager reporter boxer hedonistic passionate outlandish sultry new york city hollywood, calif. movie set funeral dance floor boxing ring rudolph valentino fame polyamory sexual conquests
The life of 1920s movie star and sex symbol, Rudolph Valentino.
Drama
UK
1967
111 Minutes
Director
Michael Caine Karl Malden Ed Begley Oscar Homolka Françoise Dorléac Guy Doleman Vladek Sheybal Milo Sperber
private investigator secret service agent oil baron friend intricate gripping thrilling england helsinki espionage conspiracy cold war mystery discovery quest 1960s
A former British spy stumbles onto a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Comedy
UK
1964
86 Minutes
Director
James Booth Marisa Mell Roy Kinnear Alita Naughton Bryan Pringle Norman Pitt Henry McCarthy Sandor Eles
attendant manager newspaper reporter actress mayor publicist amusing madcap lighthearted witty charming spirited seaside france film festival great britain publicity stunts reputation film festival cross-cultural relations
A drab little English seaside town tries to improve its image - and increase its revenues - by holding a film festival. When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand.
Horror
UK
1988
93 Minutes
Director
Amanda Donohoe Hugh Grant Catherine Oxenberg Peter Capaldi Sammi Davis Stratford Johns Paul Brooke Christopher Gable
archaeologist sister virgin lord lady farmer campy suspenseful melodramatic frightening england farm mansion cave countryside monsters supernatural man vs. nature myth deception
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in foreign land, the residents of a near-by town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Musical
UK
1987
91 Minutes
Director
Franc Roddam Charles Sturridge Derek Jarman John Hurt Julien Temple Theresa Russell
maid bodybuilder lover husband wife king creative dreamy moving offbeat paris opera house gym las vegas hotel california opera seduction suicide affair
Ten short films by ten different directors with nearly no speech but set to arias by different composers.
Horror, Gay & Lesbian
UK
1986
87 Minutes
Director
Gabriel Byrne Julian Sands Natasha Richardson Myriam Cyr Timothy Spall Alec Mango Andreas Wisniewski Dexter Fletcher Pascal King
poet doctor friend fiancée half sister creative unrestrained geneva villa fantasy world lord byron mary shelley percy bysshe shelley monsters drugs poetry metamorphosis mystery 1810s
The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.
Horror
USA|Japan
2006
105 Minutes
Director
Monte Hellman Jayce Bartok Amelia Cooke Richard Ian Cox Rob deLeeuw Lara Harris Scott Heindl Scott Lowell
Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.
Musical
1975
111 Minutes
Director
Roger Daltrey Ann-Margret Oliver Reed Elton John Eric Clapton Keith Moon Jack Nicholson Robert Powell Paul Nicholas Tina Turner Barry Winch
deaf mute messiah mother stepfather doctor uncle offbeat outlandish wild england camp mansion religion pinball mother/son relationship abuse trauma psychosomatic illness transformation fall
The Who's rock opera follows a mute, deaf and blind, boy (Roger Daltrey) who becomes a pinball wizard.
Drama, History
1991
88 Minutes
Director
Richard Dreyfuss Oliver Reed Peter Firth Jeremy Kemp Brian Blessed Peter Vaughan Kenneth Colley Lindsay Anderson
general doctor army major jew army colonel minister gripping inspiring disheartening prison office courtroom military court big city devil's island framed set-up fight for justice law duty
Georges Picquart (Richard Dreyfuss) dares to defend Jewish Capt. Alfred Dreyfus for treason in 1890s France.
Biography
1975
115 Minutes
Director
Robert Powell Georgina Hale Richard Morant Lee Montague Rosalie Crutchley Benny Lee Miriam Karlin Angela Down David Collings Ronald Pickup Antonia Ellis
composer wife schizophrenic father student brooding creative offbeat train vienna opera house insane asylum gustav mahler father/son relationship anti-semitism failed marriage sacrifice quest 1870s
Composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) flashes back on his tortured life during his final train trip to Vienna.
Comedy, Drama
UK|France|Canada|Isle Of Man
2005
86 Minutes
John Malkovich Jim Davidson Richard E. Grant Luke Mably Terence Rigby James Dreyfus Peter Bowles Leslie Phillips Honor Blackman Marisa Berenson Ayesha Dharker
con artist male prostitute musician amusing crafty london apartment scams deception impersonation show business pursuit quest transformation 1990s
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.