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In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide

Biographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier Brzeska

Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexuality by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a nymphomaniac whom he cannot satisfy

A psycho physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories

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

Corrupt officers track men for sport with dogs

Composer and pianist Franz Liszt Roger Daltrey attempts to overcome his hedonistic life style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner Paul Nicholas

The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art

10 short films by 10 different directors, set to arias by different composers

Composer Gustav Mahlers Robert Powell life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife Georgina Hale discuss their failing marriage during a train journey

Ken Russells biopic on his own life and career

Three short stories, each focused on a man and a woman The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s In The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit, a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composers life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely

On Guy Fawkes Day 1892m Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play Salome The theatre is a brothel and the performers are prostitutes

In 17th century France, Father Urbain Grandiers protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nuns accusation of witchcraft

Mindbender is the story of Uri Geller, probably the worlds most famous psychic The film shows his rise to fame from small shows in the middle east where he amazed audiences with his parapsychological feats of spoon bending and

A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult

Rock star Roddy Ushers wife is murdered and Rod is sent to a lunatic asylum in this gothic comedy horror musical

A night in the life of a cynical prostitute forms the basis of Ken Russells portrait of the worlds oldest profession

British spy turned detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoons plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer

A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England

A drab little English seaside town tries to improve its image and increase its revenues by holding a film festival When a famous continental star agrees to attend, things get out of hand

A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher

The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story

When the leading lady of a low budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process