Direction: Kenneth Anger
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kenneth Anger. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 29
Lucifer Rising
1972 · Movie · 29 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Kenneth Anger · Donald Cammell · Marianne Faithfull · Myriam Gibril
6.5
433 votes
6.5
433 votes
Scorpio Rising
1964 · Movie · 30 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Ernie Allo · Bruce Byron · Frank Carifi · Steve Crandell
Synopsis An army of gay/nazi bikers make their engines roar and ride the way to pain/pleasure as sexual and sadistic symbols are intercut into the dazing chaos and rhythmic experiences of this underground film by cult director Anger. It is considered...
6.3
807 votes
6.3
807 votes
Fireworks (S)
1947 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Kenneth Anger · Gordon Gray · Bill Seltzer
6.2
400 votes
6.2
400 votes
Invocation of My Demon Brother (S)
1969 · Movie · 11 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Kenneth Anger · Bobby Beausoleil · Lenore Kandel · Anita Pallenberg
Synopsis Experimental short, featuring strobe-like homoerotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
6.1
301 votes
6.1
301 votes
Rabbit's Moon (S)
1950 · Movie · 16 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast André Soubeyran · Claude Revenant · Nadine Valence
Synopsis Pierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine unsuccessfully, then enters a mystical moon-realm from which he returns...
6.0
215 votes
6.0
215 votes
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
1954 · Movie · 38 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Samson De Brier · Marjorie Cameron · Joan Whitney · Katy Kadell
Synopsis A Slavonic Mass by Leos Janácek plays as historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome. Aphrodite, Lilith, Isis, Kali, Astarte, Nero, Pan, and the Great Beast and the Scarlet Woman are part of a visual...
6.0
199 votes
6.0
199 votes
Eaux d'artifice (S)
1953 · Movie · 13 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Synopsis A woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, as the music of Vivaldi's "Winter" movement of "The Four Seasons" plays. Heavy red filters give a blue cast to the light; water plays...
6.0
170 votes
6.0
170 votes
Puce Moment (S)
1949 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Yvonne Marquis
Synopsis A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920's style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are...
5.8
263 votes
5.8
263 votes
Kustom Kar Kommandos (S)
1970 · Movie · 3 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Synopsis A man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover". Originally intended to be a much longer film which had to be abandoned due to lack of funds and the untimely death of the main actor.
5.1
200 votes
5.1
200 votes
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Movie · 45 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger · Asia Argento · Tadanobu Asano · Sergey Bodrov
Cast Kenneth Anger · Tadanobu Asano · Brian Butler · Helena Christensen
Synopsis An omnibus of short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.
4.9
105 votes
4.9
105 votes
The Man We Want to Hang (S)
2002 · Documentary · 14 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Synopsis "The Man We Want to Hang" is a 12-minute short, consisting of Anger filming borrowed paintings done by legendary and controversial occultist Aleister Crowley. The paintings themselves are interesting to see because of their irony. For such a renowned "occultist"/"satanist",...
4.7
57 votes
4.7
57 votes
4.2
106 votes
Brush of Baphomet (S)
2009 · Movie · 4 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Synopsis Kenneth Anger documents the Aleister Crowley's paintings.
4.0
101 votes
4.0
101 votes
Missoni (S)
2010 · Movie · 3 min. · Italy
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Angela Missoni · Francesco Maccapni Missoni · Jennifer Missoni · Luca Missoni
3.9
192 votes
3.9
192 votes
Airships (S)
2013 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Synopsis Fillmmaker Kenneth Anger exhumes newsreel footage of mighty dirigibles hovering ominously in the sky, the filmmaker's characteristic fusion of magic, symbolism, mystery and myth imbuing the already incredible footage with an eerie, supernatural quality.
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Foreplay (S)
2008 · Documentary · 7 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Synopsis Leave it to Kenneth Anger to turn footage of a very non-professional men's soccer team warming up for practice into a sweaty, sexy, homoerotic seven minutes.
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My Surfing Lucifer (S)
2007 · Documentary · 9 min. · Switzerland
Direction Kenneth Anger
Cast Bunker Spreckels · Ellie Sylva · Spyder Wills
Synopsis Using found footage, we’re introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and surfing legend.
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Elliot's Suicide (S)
2007 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Kenneth Anger
Synopsis A homage to the late American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, Elliott's Suicide is a sentimental 15 minute tribute, lacking Anger's usual irony for obvious reasons.
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