To Die of Love

La Chinoise

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Movie Star Rating : 7  Read More

May Fools

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Movie Star Rating : 6.8  Read More

The Best of Youth

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family take different directions, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Movie Star Rating : 8.1  Read More

Short Working Day

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]
Movie Star Rating : 7.1  Read More

Stolen Kisses

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Movie Star Rating : 7.3  Read More

Godard Mon Amour

In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
Movie Star Rating : 6.7  Read More

Summer

During the summer of 1968, a young French woman staying in an isolated country house reflects upon her involvement in the events of that May.
Movie Star Rating : 7.5  Read More

The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man

Paris, Latin Quarter, May 1968. Images of barricades and police movements in the street. In his bedroom, on his bed, a young man indulges in daydreams that invade the whole space.
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The Big Dream

Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
Movie Star Rating : 5.5  Read More

Something in the Air

During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Movie Star Rating : 6  Read More

The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Movie Star Rating : 6.7  Read More