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The Best of Youth

June 21, 2003

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Ital...

Godard Mon Amour

June 23, 2017

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....

La Chinoise

August 29, 1967

Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and p...

Stolen Kisses

September 3, 1968

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 fath...

Something in the Air

November 13, 2012

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...

May Fools

January 23, 1990

An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother....

The Big Dream

November 10, 2009

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 thei...

To Die of Love

January 19, 1971

A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. Gerard...

Marx Can Wait

July 14, 2021

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated...

The Society of the Spectacle

April 30, 1974

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society....

Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema

June 17, 2021

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema attendance: the story of the creation of a sensual epic that marked a turning point in the s...

Summer

November 29, 1968

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....

The White Match

September 7, 1968

Documentary film about the protests against the 1968 Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia, in Båstad, Sweden. In a series of interviews, demonstrators and members of the Swedis...

Short Working Day

November 1, 1995

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 ...

Escalation

February 28, 1968

1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to have him kidnapped and placed in a sanita...

May Days

December 31, 1977

Filmmaker William Klein documents the Paris student riots that occurred in May of 1968....

68

March 29, 2008

From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion,...

Actua 1

September 16, 1968

A film considered almost lost even by Garrel, who recently found his negatives. Shot during the events of the May 68, it was made collectively; the film is a merge of Garrel’s and his partne...

The Afternoon of a Bored Young Man

December 31, 1967

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....