Ken Russell Movies

A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.

A line up of star performers celebrate the very best of Edward Elgar's music in the 150th anniversary year of his birth.

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the...

The story of Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums): The Who, one of the most original,...

Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.

Poet John Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station, Camden Town and Hatfield, where he recites a...

A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence...

A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...

Marine veteran and former middleweight boxing champion Julian Taylor loses control in a bar fight and ends up serving time for aggravated assault....

A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

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...

A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BBC arts series Monitor.

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and...

This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part is a recurring dream; the second, a Freudian analysis of the dream.

Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele was first performed in 1868 and his most known work. In Ken Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese...

An irreverent survey of British Music.

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow) of famed composer Kurt Weill performing many of his best known compositions for...