Screenplay: Ken Russell
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ken Russell. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Devils
1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
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...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Tommy
1975 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
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...
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Salome's Last Dance
1988 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
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,...
6.2
100 votes
6.2
100 votes
The Rainbow
1989 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
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.
6.2
53 votes
6.2
53 votes
The Boy Friend
1971 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
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...
6.0
106 votes
6.0
106 votes
Mahler
1974 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
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...
5.7
180 votes
5.7
180 votes
Lisztomania
1975 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
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...
5.6
160 votes
5.6
160 votes
Valentino
1977 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom
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...
5.6
217 votes
5.6
217 votes
Aria
1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
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),...
5.6
132 votes
5.6
132 votes
Whore
1991 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Theresa Russell · Benjamin Mouton · Antonio Fargas · Sanjay Chandani
5.0
339 votes
5.0
339 votes
The Lair of the White Worm
1988 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Amanda Donohoe · Hugh Grant · Catherine Oxenberg · Sammi Davis
4.4
516 votes
4.4
516 votes
The Debussy Film
1965 · Documentary · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Oliver Reed · Vladek Sheybal · Annette Robertson · Iza Teller
Plot An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
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Song of Summer: Frederick Delius (TV)
1968 · Documentary · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Max Adrian · Maureen Pryor · Christopher Gable
Plot Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius as I knew him', it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life...
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Dante's Inferno (TV)
1967 · Documentary · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Oliver Reed · Judith Paris · Andrew Faulds · Christopher Logue
Plot A movie about jealousy, and the complex and painful relationship between Rossetti and his sickly wife, Elizabeth. They are members of the upper-crust layer of society, bourgeois painters, poets and...
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Mindbender (TV)
1996 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Ishai Golan · Terence Stamp · Idan Alterman · Hetty Baynes
Plot Mindbender is the story of Uri Geller, probably the world's most famous psychic. The film shows his rise to fame from small shows in the middle east where he amazed...
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Amelia and the Angel
1959 · Movie · 26 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Mercedes Quadros · Míka van Bloemen · Helen Ulman · E. Collins
Plot A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel...
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Peepshow (S)
1956 · Movie · 22 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Tom Laden · Philip Evans · Teddy Rhodes · Mike Shaw
Plot A parable made in the manner of an old silent comedy about artistry and illusion.
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Always on Sunday
1965 · Documentary · 43 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast James Lloyd · Annette Robertson · Bryan Pringle · Roland MacLeod
Plot Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
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The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century
2002 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast James Johnston · Lisi Tribble · Marie Findley · Ken Russell
Plot When rock star Roddy Usher's wife is murdered, he's sent to the county lunatic asylum, where the therapy is far more insane than the inmates. An amalgam of several Edgar...
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