Ken Russell Movies

A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.

Explores the worldview of A.W. Chesher, who has a special interest in painting steam traction engines.

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

A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The...

An irreverent survey of British Music.

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

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...

Video promo for Pandora's Box: It's All Coming Back to Me Now

A cine-opera retelling of the legend of Boudica, warrior queen and her uprising against the Roman occupiers of Britain.

Poet John Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station, Camden Town and Hatfield, where he recites a...

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

An illustration of various mechanical instruments, from the musical-box to 1950s electronica.

On-set footage of the film The Devils (1971) with commentary by editor Mike Bradsell

John Betjeman reminisces on Britain's great historical exhibitions since the 1870s: including Alexandra Palace, the Empire Exhibition at Wembley and...

A short directed by Ken Russell.

A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence...

A romance between a clumsy knight and a damsel in distress.

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and...