The best Ken Campbell’s movies

Ken Campbell

Ken Campbell

10/12/1941- 31/08/2008
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ken Campbell’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Ken Campbell.
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Creep

Creep
5.6/10
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets

Inspector Clouseau

Inspector Clouseau
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 19/07/1968
  • Character: Reporter
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.

The Bride

The Bride
5.4/10
After years of research Doctor Frankenstein finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".

A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/07/1988
  • Character: Bartlett
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.

Breaking Glass

Breaking Glass
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 01/10/1980
  • Character: Publican
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.

Scandal

Scandal
6.4/10
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.

Saving Grace

Saving Grace
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 24/01/2000
  • Character: Sgt. Alfred Masely
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland
6.3/10
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?

The Tempest

The Tempest
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/09/1979
  • Character: Gonzalo, an honest councillor
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.

A Zed & Two Noughts

A Zed & Two Noughts
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1985
  • Character: Stephen Pipe
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Poor Cow

Poor Cow
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/12/1967
  • Character: Mr. Jacks
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. One day, her son goes missing and she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her.

Dreamchild

Dreamchild
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 04/10/1985
  • Character: Radio Sound Effects Man/March Hare (voice)
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.

Wings of Fame

Wings of Fame
6.9/10
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.

Joshua Then and Now

Joshua Then and Now
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1985
  • Character: Sidney Murdoch
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Unfair Exchanges

Unfair Exchanges
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/01/1985
  • Character: Tim Rickett
Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems to have become an evil intelligence in its own right.

Smart Money

Smart Money
6.1/10
Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the death of his father, to take revenge on the man who really did it.

Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice

Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
7.4/10
Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to "Venthaven" the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mockumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten artforms. Nina was his protégé in ventriloquism and has been said to have reinvented the artform. This film is truly unique in genre and style. No one has seen ventriloquism like this before.

Letter to Brezhnev

Letter to Brezhnev
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 26/12/1985
  • Character: Newspaper Reporter
The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter and hook up for a night of fun and frolics. Teresa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of the Liverpool docklands. A classic British romantic comedy filled with new wave tunes, 80s fashion, a little politics and a lot of heart.

The Big Flame

The Big Flame
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/02/1969
  • Character: Journalist
After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.

Secret Nation

Secret Nation
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/01/1992
  • Character: Parkinson
A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada.

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