By all accounts an ardent enthusiast of folk music, iconoclastic and controversial English director Ken Russell (Lisztomania,...
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Director
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1956
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Director
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1961
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Elgar is a made-for-TV semi-documentary about English classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. Shot in black-and-white, the film...
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Director
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1962
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One of a handful of films Ken Russell made about the lives of famous composers, The Debussy Film stars Vladek Sheybal as a...
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Director
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1963
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Ken Russell's first feature film is a slight comedy about a stodgy British resort. Gormleigh-by-the-Sea is a holiday...
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Director
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1964
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This British anthology series allegedly extended full creative freedom to the actors, writers, and directors involved. The...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1964
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Director, Producer
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1965
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Not to be confused with the lavish 1968 biopic Isadora, the black-and-white Isadora Duncan was produced in 1966 for BBC...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Captain Patterson (uncredited)
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1966
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Director
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1967
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One of director Ken Russell's earliest films, Dante's Inferno is a made-for-TV biopic about the British poet and painter...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1967
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Part of the BBC arts program Omnibus, Song of Summer is a made-for-TV biopic about English composer Frederick Delius, based...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1968
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Director
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1969
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1970
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Director, Producer
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1971
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The Boy Friend began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1971
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1971
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Based on the book of the same name by H.S. Ede, eccentric director Ken Russell created this biographical drama of a great...
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Director, Producer
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1972
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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who retreats into himself after the death of his father. His mother,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1975
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This audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt ranks among director Ken Russell's most...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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Rudolph Valentino, born in Italy in 1895 as Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi, emigrated to the U.S. and became for...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1977
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In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true role...
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Director
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1980
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Director
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1983
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Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) is a cold, workaholic sportswear designer, divorced and dedicated only to her job. Once...
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Director
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1984
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Director Ken Russell applies his trademark excess to this surreal, experimental examination of the creative dementia which...
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Director
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1987
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An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1988
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Ken Russell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome, Salome's Last Dance takes the form of a play within a film. Wilde...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1988
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Ken Russell's Lair of the White Worm uses Dracula author Bram Stoker's final novel as the basic springboard into a surreal...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1988
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Director
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1989
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1989
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Originally aired on HBO, Women and Men: Stories of Seduction is a short-film anthology that brings to life three famous short...
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Director
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1990
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"Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain...
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1990
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Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer...
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Director
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1991
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Russell's avowed purpose with Whore was to avoid the glamorous depiction of prostitution common to such slick Hollywood...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1991
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Director
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1992
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Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was...
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Camera Operator, Director, Screenwriter
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1992
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This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1994
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Written and directed by outrageous British filmmaker Ken Russell, Mindbender is a 1995 straight-to-video biopic about the...
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Director
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1995
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Ken Russell's Dogboys is set at a southern prison. The title of the film comes from the prisoners who are used to train the...
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Director
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1998
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Murder, mayhem, insanity, mini-skirted nuns, and inflatable doll orgies are only part of the fun in Ken Russell's predictably...
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Director
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2001
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The traditional horror anthology makes a triumphant comeback in this collection of four frightfully horrific tales from...
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Director
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2006
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Brothers of the Head was adapted from Brian Aldiss' novel by screenwriter Tony Grisoni, and marks the narrative feature debut...
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2006
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In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the...
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2007
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