Ken Russell

Ken Russell's 1974 biopic sees famed composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell, Tommy) reflecting on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage during a train journey.

A psychosomatically-challenged boy becomes a pinball legend and the object of a religious cult in this classic 1975 rock opera from Oscar-nominated director Ken Russell (Altered States), adapting the 1969 album by The Who.

In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping – very erotically – her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.

A sensory deprivation tank and shamanic drugs combine to take a psychology professor (William Hurt) to some unexpected states of consciousness in this mind-bending drama by Ken Russell (Tommy, The Lair of the White Worm).

A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft.

From the pen of master spy novelist John le Carre. An expatriate British publisher (Sean Connery) unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence and sucked into the deadly world of espionage.