Screenplay: Kenneth Anger

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Kenneth Anger. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


6.5

433 votes

Scorpio Rising

1964 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Cast Ernie Allo · Bruce Byron · Frank Carifi · Steve Crandell

Plot 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...

6.3

807 votes

6.3

807 votes

Fireworks (S)

1947 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.0

199 votes

6.0

199 votes

Puce Moment (S)

1949 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Cast Yvonne Marquis

Plot 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...

5.8

263 votes

5.8

263 votes

Kustom Kar Kommandos (S)

1970 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Plot 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...

5.1

200 votes

5.1

200 votes

The Man We Want to Hang (S)

2002 · Documentary · 14 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Plot "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...

4.7

57 votes

4.7

57 votes

Mouse Heaven (S)

2004 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

4.2

106 votes

4.2

106 votes

Brush of Baphomet (S)

2009 · Movie · 4 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Plot Kenneth Anger documents the Aleister Crowley's paintings.

4.0

101 votes

4.0

101 votes

Foreplay (S)

2008 · Documentary · 7 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Plot 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

Plot Using found footage, we’re introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and surfing legend.

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The Nest (S)

1943 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Cast John Derek

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Elliot's Suicide (S)

2007 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Plot 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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Anger Sees Red (S)

2004 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

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Senators in Bondage

1976 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Plot A short film by Kenneth Anger, only available to private collectors and never publicly released.

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Drastic Demise

1945 · Documentary · min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

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Tinsel Tree (S)

1942 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

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Don't Smoke That Cigarette (S)

2000 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States

Direction Kenneth Anger

Plot An editing about the way cigarettes were suspected to induce lung-cancers.

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