Biography: Ken Russell |

British director Ken Russell started out training for a naval career, but after wartime RAF and merchant navy service he switched goals and went into ballet. Supplementing his dancing income as an actor and still photographer, Russell put together a... more
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The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2001)
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 84min
Murder, mayhem, insanity, mini-skirted nuns, and inflatable doll orgies are only part of the fun in Ken Russell's predictably debauched ode to Edgar Allen Poe. Very freely adapted from Poe's -The Fall of the House of Usher, Russell's low-budget...

Cast: Joe Dante   
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror 
Length: 104min
The traditional horror anthology makes a triumphant comeback in this collection of four frightfully horrific tales from directors Monte Hellman, Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, John Gaeta, and Joe Dante. When seven strangers accept a mysterious...

Tags: Thriller Prison Film 
Length: 100min
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 attack dogs employed to stop escapes. DA Jennifer Dern (Tia Carrere) is investigating the prison's warden (Bryan Brown). She...

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Written and directed by outrageous British filmmaker Ken Russell, Mindbender is a 1995 straight-to-video iopic about the celebrity psychic Uri Geller, known for bending spoons and performing other tricks before an audience. Ishai Golan plays Gellar,...

Tags: Period Film Erotic Drama Drama 
Length: 205min
Another of writer/director Ken Russell's D.H. Lawrence adaptations, Lady Chatterley (an amalgam of three Lawrence novels) was first shown as a British TV miniseries on BBC1 from June 6 to 27, 1993. In recounting the familiar details of young, bored...

Cast: Melvin Van Peebles Susan Seidelman   
Tags: Sex Comedy Comedy 
Length: 170min
This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom...

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss   
Tags: Courtroom Drama Political Drama Drama 
Length: 90min
Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence who uncovers...

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
Cast: Ken Russell Tony Richardson James Woods Melanie Griffith Elizabeth McGovern   
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama 
Length: 90min
Originally aired on HBO, Women and Men: Stories of Seduction is a short-film anthology that brings to life three famous short stories. Mary McCarthy's "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" stars Elizabeth McGovern and Beau Bridges. The second,...

Cast: Theresa Russell   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 80min
Russell's avowed purpose with Whore was to avoid the glamorous depiction of prostitution common to such slick Hollywood products as Pretty Woman. As played by Theresa Russell (no relation to Ken), the eponymous character lives a hellish existence....

Cast: Glenda Jackson   
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age 
Length: 104min
Director Ken Russell returns to the D.H. Lawrence territory that had earlier served him well in Women in Love. Sammi Davis plays Lawrence's Welsh heroine Ursula Brangwen, daughter of a wealthy mine owner, who is first seen as a child given to...






























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