Direction: Ken Russell

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Oliver Reed · Dudley Sutton · Max Adrian

Plot This is the disturbing story of a highly influential priest in the French city of Loudon. Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Glenda Jackson · Alan Bates · Oliver Reed · Jennie Linden

Plot The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian's industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends who fall in love with...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Roger Daltrey · Ann-Margret · Oliver Reed · Paul Nicholas

Plot Cpt. Walker's plane is shot down during World War 2 and he is presumed dead. His widow Nora meets Frank Hobbs and they are quick to get married. However, one...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Glenda Jackson · Christopher Gable · Max Adrian

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Glenda Jackson · Imogen Millais-Scott · Stratford Johns · Denis Lill

Plot Late on Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, Oscar Wilde arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits: a staging of his play "Salome," with parts played by prostitutes, Wilde's host,...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Sammi Davis · Paul McGann · Amanda Donohoe · Christopher Gable

Plot A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Huw Wheldon

Direction Ken Russell

Cast William Hurt · Blair Brown · Bob Balaban · Charles Haid

Plot It's the late 1960's. Just for a lark, graduate student Eddie Jessup, known for being unconventional, brilliant and slightly mad, conducts experiments with an isolation chamber, using himself as the...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Twiggy · Christopher Gable · Max Adrian · Tommy Tune

Plot The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) is forced to understudy for the leading lady (Rita) at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Dorothy Tutin · Scott Antony · Helen Mirren · Lindsay Kemp

Plot Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great early 20th century artist who died tragically young....

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Robert Powell · Georgina Hale · Lee Montague · Miriam Karlin

Plot Mahler is a series of memories and impressions taken from the composer's momentous life, set to his superb and evocative music. Jealously over his attractive wife, the insanity of a...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Roger Daltrey · Sara Kestelman · Paul Nicholas · Ringo Starr

Plot A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt's "friendship" with fellow composer...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Rudolf Nureyev · Michelle Phillips · Leslie Caron · Carol Kane

Plot 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 - that actor...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Oliver Reed · Peter Firth · Jeremy Kemp

Plot "Prisoner of Honor" documents the French Dreyfus Affair that saw a French Captain sent to Devils' Island for espionage near the end of the nineteenth century. Richard Dreyfuss plays Colonel...

Direction Robert Altman · Bruce Beresford · Jean-Luc Godard · Derek Jarman

Cast Theresa Russell · Jacques Neuville · Buck Henry · Elizabeth Hurley

Plot 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),...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Michael Caine · Karl Malden · Ed Begley · Oskar Homolka

Plot Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective. One of his first assignments is to deliver an apparently innocent thermos flask to an old friend...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Kathleen Turner · Anthony Perkins · John Laughlin · Annie Potts

Plot The thirty year-old hard-worker Bobby Grady is married with two children with the frigid Amy Grady and their marriage is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work in the night...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Joely Richardson · Sean Bean · James Wilby · Shirley Anne Field

Plot Based on three related novels by D.H. Lawrence, this is Ken Russell's telling of the tale of Lady Connie Chatterley and her husband's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Connie's husband is disabled...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Julian Sands · Natasha Richardson · Myriam Cyr

Plot Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed drug induced games are played and ghost stories are told one rainy night at the...

Direction Ken Russell

Cast Theresa Russell · Benjamin Mouton · Antonio Fargas · Sanjay Chandani