Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

A British Picture

1989

English

6.6

♡ 4

Action

Biography

Ken Russell Director

Ross Donnelly as (archive footage)

Ken Russell as Self

Melvyn Bragg as Self

Victoria Russell as Self

The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and The Rainbow, is as unconventional and brilliant as his best films. Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of interconnected episodes – his thirties childhood in Southampton, his first sexual experience (watching Disney’s Pinocchio), his schooldays at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, early careers in the Merchant Marine and the Royal Air Force, dancing days at the Shepherds Bush Ballet Club and of course his career as a film-maker, beginning with an extraordinary interview with Huw Weldon for a job on Monitor. Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights into the realities of the film director's life, A British Picture is a remarkable autobiography.

Color Me Kubrick

2005

English

6.1

♡ 4

51%

Brian W. Cook Director

Honor Blackman as Madam

James Faulkner as Oliver

Oliver Cotton as PC Metcalf

Ken Russell as The Man in a Nightgown

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.

Savage Messiah

1972

English

6.9

♡ 6

55%

78%

Action

artist

based on novel or book

Ken Russell Director

Harry Fielder as Angry Man in Crowd

Helen Mirren as Gosh Boyle

Ken Russell as Passenger Getting Off Train

Dorothy Tutin as Sophie Brzeska

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.

Mr. Nice

2010

English

6.3

♡ 7

53%

44%

Biography

central intelligence agency (cia)

smuggling (contraband)

wales

Bernard Rose Director

Crispin Glover as Ernie Combs

Elsa Pataky as Ilze Kadegis

David Thewlis as Jim McCann

Ken Russell as Russell Miegs

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.

Salome's Last Dance

1988

English

6.4

♡ 6

44%

86%

based on play or musical

Ken Russell Director

Ken Russell as Cappadocian / Kenneth

Stratford Johns as Herod / Alfred Taylor

Glenda Jackson as Herodias / Lady Alice

Douglas Hodge as John the Baptist / Lord Alfred 'Bosey' Douglas

London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.

Whore

1991

English

5.6

♡ 17

38%

Ken Russell Director

Danny Trejo as Tattoo Artist

B.J. Ward as Theatre Manager

Ken Russell as Waiter

Robert O'Reilly as Younger Man in Car

This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Trapped Ashes

2006

English

4.7

♡ 10

25%

Ken Russell Director

Jayce Bartok as Andy

Ken Russell as Dr. Lucy

Jerry Wasserman as Dr. Stengel

Tygh Runyan as Young Stanley

Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.

The Russia House

1990

English

6.1

♡ 37

70%

50%

Action

based on novel or book

central intelligence agency (cia)

Fred Schepisi Director

Colin Stinton as Henziger

Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya

Blu Mankuma as Merv

Ken Russell as Walter

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

Tommy

1975

English

6.6

♡ 20

71%

Ken Russell Director

Ken Russell as Cripple

Oliver Reed as Frank

Pete Townshend as Self

Jack Nicholson as The Specialist

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

The Kids Are Alright

1979

English

8.0

♡ 7

100%

88%

Documentary

Music

Jeff Stein Director

Ken Russell as Self

Steve Martin as Self

Rick Danko as Self

Pete Townshend as Self (The Who)

Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial formation of the group in 1964 to 1978. It notably features the band's last performance with long-term drummer Keith Moon, filmed at Shepperton Studios in May 1978, three months before his death.

The Lair of the White Worm

1988

English

6.1

♡ 40

66%

47%

Action

based on novel or book

Ken Russell Director

Amanda Donohoe as Lady Sylvia Marsh

Hugh Grant as Lord James D'Ampton

Stratford Johns as Peters

Ken Russell as Police Radio

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

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