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The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 1,311 votes)

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Blow-Up(1966)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 535 votes)

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

One Hundred Steps(2000)

1h 54min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 293 votes)

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s small-town Sicily. Despite living in a family with Mafia ties, one hundred steps away from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino denounces the whole Mafia system by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Zabriskie Point(1970)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 171 votes)

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Howl(2010)

R
| 1h 24min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

Rid of Me(2011)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A scathing black comedy of embarrassment that charts the emotional breakdown and rebirth of a woman ripe for self-discovery.

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future(1985)

3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin(2018)

1h 6min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Produced with Le Guin’s participation over the course of a decade, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a journey through the writer’s career and her world’s, both real and fantastic. Viewers will join the writer on an intimate journey of self-discovery as she comes into her own as a major feminist author, opening new doors for the imagination and inspiring generations of women and other marginalized writers along the way. The film features stunning animation and reflections by literary luminaries including Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Michael Chabon, and more.

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road(2012)

34min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Documentary about the 1970 film, "End of The Road.".

End of the Road(1970)

1h 50min | Drama, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm"...

Manson(1973)

R
| 1h 23min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi and Manson "family" members Lynette Fromme, Mary Brunner and Sandra Good discuss the Tate-LaBianca murders.

Directed by Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes(2023)

1h 30min | Comedy

In 1967, strait-laced exploitation movie king Roger Corman embarks on a life-changing attempt to capture the psychedelic world of LSD on film by taking a "trip" himself, abetted by Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.

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The Revolutionary(1970)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.

Directed by Paul Williams - With Jon Voight, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall

Seven Sins: 7 Performances during 1989 China Avant-Garde Art Exhibition(2016)

52min | Documentary

In 1989, a group of avant-garde artists who had collaborated in private for years received permission to organize their own exhibition at the National Art Museum of China. However, one of the terms was to exclude performance artists from participating. The seven artists who were left out took action. At the opening ceremony, their lives changed as the sounds of gunfire rang out.

Getting Wasted(1980)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around them. When a few students decide to bring the more liberal, artsy side of the revolution onto campus, they face opposition from much of the school's staff.

Escalation(1968)

1h 29min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business at any cost. Luca is first forced to return to Italy, then kidnapped by his father's collaborators, placed in a sanitarium and put through electroshock therapy and other torments. Once 'normalised' Luca marries a woman who is in reality a psychologist paid by his father to brainwash him and turn him into a perfect businessman.

Talita(2017)

1h 30min | Drama

Stefania reaches an existential crisis, amidst the stresses at home, at work, and in her memories. Her life and that of her hapless husband turn when they take in a charming and mysterious traveler, a gentle wanderer on his own quest.

Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?(2012)

Documentary following English folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention as they celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2012. Fairport's iconic 1969 album Liege and Lief featured some of folk music's biggest names - including singer Sandy Denny, guitarist Richard Thompson and fiddler Dave Swarbrick - and was voted by Radio 2 listeners as the most influential folk album of all time.

When Man Is the Prey(1972)

1h 26min | Drama

After a year in Europe, the young Samantha, daughter of a prominent American politician returns home. She is convinced that she was sent home because she was romantically linked to Nat Brook, a black revolutionary. After one of his numerous protests against violence, Nat feels he is being followed by two men sent by her father . But in the duel that follows the young revolutionary knocks out the two stalkers . Then he breaks it off with Samantha because, beyond the his feelings for her, she is starting to feel like a burden to his protesting activities.

Directed by Vittorio De Sisti

Theodore of the Absurd(2012)

29min | Music, Comedy

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

Guess What We Learned in School Today?(1971)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Parents in a small, conservative community don't think that the sex drive is a normal thing for children to experience. So much so, that they label education in that regard as a communist plot. The group of prudes is led by an impotent alcoholic and a gay policeman.

Directed by John G. Avildsen

Changing(1971)

28min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

After adopting a hippie lifestyle, a man finds his home life enhanced while becoming isolated at work.

The Last Big Thing(1998)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by Dan Zukovic

Josie's Castle(1971)

R
| 1h 25min | Drama
1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Three free spirits cut their ties with the old-fashioned square world and shack up in a love commune. A Seventies cult favorite featuring Star Trek's George Takei (Mr. Sulu).

Free Spirits(2007)

1h 38min | Documentary

The incredible true story of the Renaissance Community commune, one of the largest, most controversial intentional communities of the 1960s and 70s, and its flamboyant founder, Michael Metelica Rapunzel.

Gold(1972)

1h 29min | Comedy
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Uptight killjoy square cop Captain Harold Jinks doesn't approve of the local hippies in an Old West-style rural community romping about naked, so he zealously enforces various strict laws to ban public nudity. It's up to loopy long-haired rebel Hawk to save the townspeople from Jinks' oppressive reign.

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds(1979)

NR
| 56min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City. Associated through mutual friendships, these cultural dissidents looked for new ways and means to express themselves. Soon their writings found an audience and the American media took notice, dubbing them the Beat Generation. Members of this group included writers Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. a trinity that would ultimately influence the works of others during that era, including the "hippie" movement of the '60s. In this 55-minute video narrated by Allen Ginsberg, members of the Beat Generation (including the aforementioned Burroughs, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky, Amiri Baraka, Diane Di Prima, and Timothy Leary) are reunited at Naropa University in Boulder, CO during the late 1970's to share their works and influence a new generation of young American bohemians.

MC5: A True Testimonial(2002)

NR
| 2h | Music, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This documentary, made over a period of eight years, tells the remarkable story of an extremely influential rock'n'roll band. Starting from their mid-60's garage band roots (sounding amazingly like the Sonics), the Motor City 5 deveoped into an icon for a brand of loud, crushing music reflecting their industrial roots. Even if you don't care for their music (and you're bound to like even a few of their songs), their story is fascinating. It combines 60's protest, youthful braggadocio, and a style of music that would help carry one to the likes of Iggy and the Stooges (not to mention certain aspects of punk rock). This film is clearly a labor of love, combining extraordinarily rare live shows, still shots, a nearly-continuous backdrop of MC5 tunes, penetrating interviews with the remaining members and their spouses, and even FBI surveillance shots. It's the ultimate testimonial to a band that only gains in stature as time goes on.

The Psychedelic Experience(1965)

NR
| 20min | History, Documentary, Fantasy

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.

Into the Flames(2021)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy

Two robbers flee from a robbery into a neighborhood where they seek safety. Spotting two guys arriving to a house, the robbers pull into the driveway and use a car cover to hide. Inside the house, they discover that it's a gathering of cannabis entrepreneurs. In short , their robbery is discovered. And now the robbers make them eat edibles while they hold them hostage. Chaos ensues.

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