Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998), Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999), Sunflower (1970), Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019), To Live (1994), Blank City (2009), F.T.A. (1972), Farewell My Concubine (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cultural Revolution movies.
Storyline: During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Zadong's regime sends countless adolescents, including a bright young girl named Xiu Xiu (Lu Lu), to rural lands in order to participate in various kinds of physical labor. Xiu Xiu is torn away from her caring relatives and close friends to live and work with Lao Jin (Lopsang), a rancher. Though he treats Xiu Xiu kindly, she yearns for her old life and eventually turns to a degrading life of prostitution in hopes of earning the means to return home.
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, cultural revolution, youth, coming of age, tragedy, female ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Chuck Workman charts the achievements of Beat notables Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady.
Plot Keywords: documentary, counterculture, american culture, rebellion, social change, cultural revolution, underground culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Italian bride (Sophia Loren) finds her long-lost soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) living in Moscow with amnesia and a wife (Lyudmila Saveleva) and daughter.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, family, rural, cultural revolution, chinese cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Featuring never-before-seen footage, filmmaker Barak Goodman examines the cultural, political and social ramifications of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in upstate New York.
Plot Keywords: music festival, documentary, counterculture, rock music, historical event, music history, american culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work. They raise a family and survive, managing "to live" from the 40's to the 70's in this epic, but personal, story of life through an amazing period.
Plot Keywords: drama, history, family, society, politics, china, cultural revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim Jarmusch, Debbie Harry and others discuss the No Wave and Cinema of Transgression movements that took place in New York in the late 1970s and early '80s.
Plot Keywords: independent film, documentary, experimental film, 1970s, 1980s, film history, counterculture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Francine Parker documents Jane Fonda's tour with musicians and activists opposed to the Vietnam War.
Plot Keywords: documentary, political, anti-war, vietnam war, military, protest, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.
Plot Keywords: history, romance, tragedy, homosexuality, friendship, betrayal, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed him into a leading figure of the 1960s counterculture. This is his story.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, comedy, stand-up comedy, social commentary, counterculture, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering turbo-capitalism of the present day. Told in sweeping tableaux, it makes visible the deep scars that lie beneath the surface of an ostensibly unbroken success story.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: family, drama, chinese cinema, history, society, tragedy, time span ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s England is explored in this documentary.
Plot Keywords: documentary, british culture, 1960s, social change, music, fashion, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock 'n' roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.—Martin Lewison <lewison+@pitt.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, biographical, 1950s, dj culture, music history, concert, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Steven Shorter is the ultimate British music star. His music is listened to by everyone from pre-teens to grandparents. He has no trace of public bad habits or drug involvement. Everyone in Britain loves him. His handlers begin to use his popularity for projects like increasing the consumption of apples after a bumper crop as an aid to farmers. The handlers decide that Steven should support God and Country next. This leads to, among other things, a rock version of "Onward Christian Soldiers," and the inclusion of a Nazi salute to make it clear (to the viewer) how far the British population will be taken for love of God and Country under Steven's guidance. Steven is very plastic in his direction, shifting as his handlers point him toward new projects until he meets Vanessa Ritchie, an artist who makes him look at what's happening.—John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}
Plot Keywords: dystopian, social critique, musical, british film, 1960s, political allegory, pop culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Music impresario Alan McGee's journey from his native Glasgow into the heyday of '90s British rock music, intercut with an older version of himself recounting these events to an interviewer.
Plot Keywords: british film, based on true story, music industry, cultural revolution, independent music, music legend, youth culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Simon is a student at a college in San Francisco. He is content to be on the rowing team and remain as just a casual observer to the on-campus unrest, demonstrations and protests. However, curiosity gets the best of him and he begins exploring the inner sanctum of the students who have invaded the dean's office. He soon meets Linda and becomes a loyal member of the student revolution to meet girls. However, when he truly discovers the corruption and the madness that his comrades are protesting, his mindset also joins the movement. He becomes a revolutionary leader and prepares his comrades for a very violent climactic showdown with "the pigs" at a sit-in.—thustlebird
Plot Keywords: anti-war, idealism, radicalism, generation gap, love story, cultural revolution, utopia ...
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