Ken Russell

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

Dir. Ken Russell · With William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban

A charismatic 17th-century French priest becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Dir. Ken Russell · With Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

Dir. Ken Russell · With Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg

Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.

Dir. Ken Russell · With Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson

Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Dir. Ken Russell · With Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

Dir. Ken Russell · With Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey

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.

Dir. Ken Russell · With Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

Dir. Ken Russell · With Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider

This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Dir. Ken Russell · With Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas