Mahler (1975), The Devils (1971), Women in Love (1969), Tommy (1975), The Boy Friend (1971), Tommy (1975), Salome's Last Dance (1988), Crimes of Passion (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ken Russell movies.
Storyline: Composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) flashes back on his tortured life during his final train trip to Vienna.
Plot Keywords: biography, musician, composer, 1970s, british film, art film, classical music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.
Plot Keywords: religion, history, drama, thriller, horror, controversial, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britain's industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters Gudrun, a sculptress and Ursula Brangwen, a schoolteacher. Rupert marries Ursula, Gerald begins a love affair with Gudrun, and the foursome embarks upon a Swiss honeymoon. But the relationships take markedly different directions, as Russell explores the nature of commitment and love. Rupert and Ursula learn to give themselves to each other. The more withdrawn Gerald cannot, finally, connect with the demanding and challenging Gudrun.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british, literary adaptation, female perspective, emotional conflict, sexual liberation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Who's rock opera follows a mute, deaf and blind, boy (Roger Daltrey) who becomes a pinball wizard.
Plot Keywords: psychedelic, cult film, 1970s cinema, visual spectacle, experimental film, drug culture, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 (Cecil B. DeThrill) is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza. Polly also happens to fall in love with the leading man (Tony) and imagines several fabulous fantasy sequences in which the director is free to exercise his capacity for over-the-top visuals in this charming 1920's era flick.—Bliss Blood <soundex@sccsi.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, satire, parody, theatre, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nora Walker is told that her British fighter pilot husband is missing in action and presumed killed in World War II. On V.E. Day, Nora gives birth to their son, who she names Tommy. While Tommy is an adolescent, Nora marries Frank, a shifty camp counselor. Shortly thereafter, Tommy suffers an emotionally traumatic experience associated with his father and step-father, which, based on things told to him at that time, results in him becoming deaf, dumb and blind, a situation which several people exploit for their own pleasure. As Nora tries several things to bring Tommy out of his psychosomatic disabilities, Tommy, now a young man, happens upon pinball as a stimulus. Playing by intuition, Tommy becomes a pinball master, which in turn makes him, and by association Nora and Frank, rich and famous. Nora literally shatters Tommy to his awakening, which ultimately leads to both the family's rise and downfall as people initially try to emulate Tommy's path then rebel against it.
Plot Keywords: musical, rock, blindness, redemption, cult, psychedelic, visual spectacle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome, on Guy Fawkes day, 1892. A bordello's the theatre and the performers are prostitutes.Lord Alfred (Bosie) Douglas. who's Wilde's lover is John the Baptist. Soon, Wilde's interactions with some of the cast ignite Bosie's jealousy.—grantss
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, historical, theatrical, artistic, erotic, literary adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The thirty year-old hard-worker Bobby Grady is married with two children to the frigid Amy Grady and their marriage is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work the night shift at a fashion design studio whose owner believes his talented and introspective designer Joanna Crane is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub and follows Joanna after hours. He discovers she has a double life, working as a fifty-dollar hooker called China Blue in the red light district and practicing kinky sex with her clients to satisfy their fantasies. Bobby becomes obsessed by China Blue and when the true thief is found, he has sex with her and they have a crush on each other. Meanwhile the insane preacher Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) decides to save Joanna's soul and stalks her everywhere.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, erotic, mystery, film noir, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A drab little English seaside town tries to improve its image - and increase its revenues - by holding a film festival. When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british, 1960s, satire, farce, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed drug induced games are played and ghost stories are told one rainy night at the mad Lord Byron's country estate. Personal horrors are revealed and the madness of the evening runs from sexual fantasy to fiercest nightmare. Mary finds herself drawn into the sick world of her lover Shelley and cousin Claire as Byron leads them all down the dark paths of their souls.—Susan Southall <stobchatay@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, psychological thriller, historical, dark, supernatural, romance ...
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