Ken Russell Movies

Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics.

While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more...

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

Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy,

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

Behind the scenes of the making of Ken Russell's 1971 film 'The Devils. Shown are the construction of the sets, filming of the courtroom scene, the...

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists...

Scientist Joe Hartman introduces self-proclaimed Middle Eastern psychic Uri Geller to America.

A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.

Utilising the music of eminent composer Arnold Bax, this biographical docudrama focuses on Bax's complex relationships with pianist Harriet Cohen and...

One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists...

Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano...

Far from an ordinary profile of Georges Delerue; it also serves as a calling card for Russell, whose work would define the 1970s as Delerue’s...

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

Ken Russell's engrossing examination of the great 20th-century composer tells Williams' story through the eyes of his widow, Ursula, with personal...

An exploration of composer Anton Bruckner's numeromania during a nervous breakdown and stay at a sanatorium.

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

Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of unconventional interconnected episodes –...

A plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Führer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline. (The result of a challenge...

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