The Exiles (1961), Regular Lovers (2005), We Are Young. We Are Strong. (2014), SLC Punk! (1998), Easy Rider (1969), Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), The Chumscrubber (2005), Suburbia (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lost Generation movies.
Storyline: In a Native American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Homer (Homer Nish) lives with his pregnant wife, Yvonne (Yvonne Williams), in a crowded apartment. While Homer goes drinking with his friend Tommy (Tom Reynolds), Yvonne is left at a movie by herself. As the men get progressively drunker, Yvonne realizes her husband is not coming home. Meanwhile, Homer and Tommy wander through the nighttime city, looking for fights, playing poker and discussing their problems as Native Americans.
Plot Keywords: independent film, documentary style, los angeles, urban life, social realism, 1960s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1968 a young Parisian (Louis Garrel) embraces revolutionary ideals and begins a romance with an art student (Clotilde Hesme).
Plot Keywords: french cinema, black and white film, art film, paris, youth culture, love story, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People from different walks of life in the German city of Rostock intersect when a rampaging mob besieges a residential building occupied by Vietnamese immigrants.
Plot Keywords: youth, violence, immigration, racism, protest, germany, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill, stays in hospital for three weeks, comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks, rednecks and others.
Plot Keywords: social critique, 1990s, identity crisis, dark comedy, coming of age, drug culture, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Netting a hefty profit from their latest drug deal, hippies Wyatt and Billy decide to outfit themselves with among other things motorbikes - Wyatt complete in what they call his Captain America gear and similar motif on the bike - and chucking any structure in their lives beyond the want to get there for the event, cycle from their home base of Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in just over a week. They don't plan to spend their proceeds on this trip - they saving that for a more carefree life in Florida after the fact - they sleeping in the great outdoors along the way. While Wyatt is more easy going, believing in the karmic nature and practicality of helping others when they can and in turn asking for help when they need it, Billy is a little more suspicious of the people they encounter, especially in hiding their wad of cash that is stuffed into the gas tank of Wyatt's bike, that money their future. They will find that not all counter-culturalists have the exact same ...
Plot Keywords: road movie, counterculture, american dream, freedom, 1960s, drug culture, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Secaucus 7 of the film's title are seven friends who, during their college days, were arrested in New Jersey on their way to a protest in Washington. The film takes place ten years after all that, as the friends gather at the home of Mike and Katie, now schoolteachers in New Hampshire, bringing with them old problems and new: Maura has left Jeff and seeks consolation with his best friend, J.T.; J.T., arguably the least successful of the friends, finally gets the courage to move to Los Angeles to start a career as a songwriter; Irene brings her new boyfriend along, hoping he'll like and be liked by her friends and expecting them to challenge him for his more-conservative politics; and more. This is the film that inspired "The Big Chill."—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, friendship, reunion, politics, social commentary, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Chumscrubber starts out with Troy, a normal teenager who supplies "feel good" pills to everyone in his high school (this way he spreads happiness all around). But when his friend Dean pays him a visit, Dean discovers Troy has hanged himself in his bedroom during one of his mother's pool parties. After the death, three local teens: Billy, Lee, and Crystal, want what's left of Troy's stash of pills and they know that Dean is the only one who knows where they are. But when Dean refuses to get the pills, the three teens kidnap Dean's little brother, until they realize they've kidnapped the wrong kid.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, suburban life, teen issues, psychological trauma, drug abuse, social satire, family breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away, hanging out in parking lots and occasionally mentioning that they might want to make something of themselves... someday. On this particular night, they are visited by an old high school friend who has escaped their suburban town to become a pop star.—Andy Bogursky <bogursky@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: suburban life, social outcasts, independent film, 1990s, counterculture, family conflict, escapism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white film, drama, romance, adaptation, 1920s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paris in the 1920s. The American journalist Jake and his friends spend the time at cafés. He has a special interest in his ex-fiancée Lady Ashley. They take a vacation in Pamplona to watch the bull-fights.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, literary adaptation, classic, american film, 1950s, post-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Just after a young singer comes out with his first hit record, he is drafted into the Army.
Plot Keywords: rebellion, social issues, 1950s, british film, gang, violence, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Plot Keywords: drugs, addiction, counterculture, 1970s, documentary style, realism, street life ...
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