Ken Russell
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
Ken Russell at the BBC (Elgar; Debussy; Always on Sunday; Isadora; Dante's Inferno; Song of Summer) (1962-1968)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vladek Sheybal, Vernon Dobtcheff…
- The engrossing early works of the controversial director comprises six of his famed artist portraits
Billion Dollar Brain (1968)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley…
- The third 'Harry Palmer' spy caper taken from Len Deighton's series, with the bespectacled Caine this time chasing a meglomaniac Texas…
Women in Love (1969)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
- Ken Russell's esteemed version of D.H. Lawrence's finest novel about a macho entrepreneur, his philosophically and sexually dubious friend and their…
Devils, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave
- Ken Russell's subversive foray into Catholic guilt is as bold and disturbing as it is brilliant. Amidst the witch trials of medieval France, Oliver…
Music Lovers, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson
- A wonderfully audacious film fantasia based on the life of Russian composer Tchaikovsky, the homosexual who married a nymphomaniac! Richard…
Boy Friend, The (1971)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian…
- Unavailable on any format until recently, this long lost flight of fancy finds Ken Russell remodeling the golden age of musicals in his own…
Mahler (1974)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale…
- Ken Russell's biopic on the life of the Jewish composer. As one critic observed – 'Whether the title of the opus is Mahler, Strauss or Elgar,…
Tommy (1975)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton…
- The Who's ground–breaking rock opera about the deaf, dumb and blind kid who plays a mean pin–ball. It's a bad taste extravaganza that…
Lisztomania (1975)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Roger Daltrey, Ringo Starr, Fiona Lewis
- Ken Russell's erotic send–up of the bawdy life of virtuoso composer Franz Liszt – whose piano performances were attended by hordes of…
Valentino (1977)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Rudolph Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips…
- Rudolph Nureyev portrays his promiscous namesake for Ken Russell's typically irreverent screen biography of the silent movie star.