Ken Russell — Director (35)
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In Search of the English Folk Song (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
In Search of the English Folk Song
director: Ken Russell actor: Ken Russell / Donovan …
Filmmaker Ken Russell poses the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an indifferent response from his dog, Russell journeys around the English countryside seeking for an answer. He encounters and interviews such famous artists as Donovan, Fairport Convention, Osibisa, Eliza Carthy, So What, Edward II and The Albion Band, among others.
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A House in Bayswater (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A House in Bayswater
director: Ken Russell actor: Helen May
A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The building is demolished to make way for an unattractive and bland office.
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A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
director: Ken Russell actor: Ken Russell / Rupert Russell …
Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of unconventional 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 filmmaker, beginning with an extraordinary interview with Huw Weldon for a job on Monitor.
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Amelia and the Angel (1958) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Amelia and the Angel
director: Ken Russell actor: Mercedes Quadros / Míka van Bloemen …
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 follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.
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Tales of Erotica (1996) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Tales of Erotica
director: 鲍勃·拉菲尔森 / Ken Russell … actor: Sharon Angela / Richard Barboza …
other title: 情色男女 / 情色传说
Four erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings: 'The Dutch Master': a woman who enters a living painting; 'The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch': a woman is lured by noises from a chamber; 'Vroom Vroom Vroooom': a motorcycle transforms into a woman; and 'Wet': a hot tub salesman seduced by a woman.
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"Omnibus" Song of Summer: Frederick Delius (1968) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
"Omnibus" Song of Summer: Frederick Delius
director: Ken Russell actor: 麦克斯·艾德里安 / 克里斯托弗·盖布尔 …
other title: 夏日之歌：弗雷德里克·戴留斯 / Song of Summer
Based on Eric Fenby's 1936 memoir 'Delius as I knew him', it traces the last years of Frederick Delius, and Fenby's dedication in giving up five years of his life to helping the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head. Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the Sixties, Song of Summer is an immensely moving story of sacrifice, idealism and musical genius.
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Crimes of Passion (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Crimes of Passion
director: 肯·罗素 actor: 凯瑟琳·特纳 / 约翰·拉夫林 …
other title: 激情犯罪 / 危险情人 …
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
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The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1995) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
director: Ken Russell actor: Hetty Baynes / Simon Shepherd …
other title: 凯瑟尔夫人的欲望 / 恶魔的教育之凯瑟尔夫人的欲望 …
A writer taking a rest in a country hotel is obsessed with a strange woman in the same hotel. The woman seems to observe him in provocative ways, but he does not dare to approach her. One day he follows her to her room and listens to strange “erotic” sounds from inside, and begins to have erotic thoughts.
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法式调味酱 (1975) [Movie] Douban
French Dressing
director: 肯·罗素 actor: 詹姆斯·布斯 / 罗伊·金尼尔 …
other title: French Dressing / 渔村春色
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.
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Prisoner of Honor (1991) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Prisoner of Honor
director: Ken Russell actor: Richard Dreyfuss / 奥列佛·里德 …
other title: 荣誉的罪迷宫 / Prisioneiros da Honra …
France, 1897: Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that leads to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted of espionage three years earlier.
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"Omnibus" Dante's Inferno (1967) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
"Omnibus" Dante's Inferno
director: 肯·罗素 actor: 奥列佛·里德 / Pat Ashton …
other title: 但丁的地狱 / Dante's Inferno
Ken Russell movie about jealousy, and the complex and painful relationship between Rossetti and his sickly wife, Elizabeth. They are members of the upper-crust layer of society, bourgeois painters, poets and philosophers. Rossetti struggles with his own emotions for his wife, as she refuses his sexual advances before they marry, and, once they do marry, she is unable to bear him any children. She believes he has impregnated another woman (a model), commits suicide, and, as he chooses to bury his best poems with her coffin, he is driven insane when confronted with the idea of exhuming her coffin and retrieving the book to sell to his fans. Written by Jonathan Dakss.
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Salome's Last Dance (1988) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Salome's Last Dance
director: 肯·罗素 actor: 格兰达·杰克逊 / 斯特拉特福德·约翰斯 …
other title: 莎乐美最后之舞 / 살로메 …
Late on Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, Oscar Wilde arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits: a staging of his play "Salome," with parts played by prostitutes, Wilde's host, his lover Bosey, and Lady Alice. The movie moves between the play and Wilde's night. In the play, Herod begs his pubescent step-daughter Salome to dance for him, promising her anything she desires. Her mother, Herodias, objects. Salome is stung by John the Baptist's rejection of her affections. The prophet's scolding celibacy puts him between the expressed desire of age and youth. Wilde dallies with a young man as he watches the show, provoking Bosey's jealousy. Two surprises await us.
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Savage Messiah (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Savage Messiah
director: 肯·罗素 actor: 多洛特·图丁 / Scott Antony …
other title: 野蛮救世主 / Le Messie sauvage …
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.
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The Music Lovers (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Music Lovers
director: 肯·罗素 actor: 理查德·查伯兰 / 格兰达·杰克逊 …
other title: Tschaikowsky - Genie und Wahnsinn / Music Lovers - La Symphonie pathétique …
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.