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In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. Although distinct countercultural undercurrents exist in all societies, here the term counterculture refers to a more significant, visible phenomenon that reaches critical mass and persists for a period of time. A counterculture movement thus expresses the ethos, aspirations and dreams of a specific population during a certain period of time — a social manifestation of zeitgeist.

In contemporary times, counterculture came to prominence in the news media as it was used to refer to the youth rebellion that swept North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand during the 1960s and early 1970s. Earlier countercultural milieux in 19th century Europe included the traditions of Romanticism, Bohemianism and of the Dandy. Another important movement existed in a more fragmentary form in the 1950s, both in Europe and the US, in the form of the Beat generation (Beatniks), who typically sported beards, wore roll-neck sweaters, read the novels of Albert Camus and listened to Jazz music.

Counterculture is generally used to describe a theological, cultural, attitudinal or material position that does not conform to accepted societal norms. Yet, counterculture movements are often co-opted to spearhead commercial campaigns. Thus once taboo ideas (men wearing a woman's color — pink, for example) sometimes become popular trends. [1] [Apr 2007]

This is a list of counterculture films made in or about the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, emphasizing themes of nonconformity and going against the norm.

Contents 1 1940s 1.1 1946 1.2 1949 2 1950s 2.1 1953 2.2 1955 2.3 1958 2.4 1959 3 1960s 3.1 1960 3.2 1961 3.3 1962 3.4 1963 3.5 1964 3.6 1965 3.7 1966 3.8 1967 3.9 1968 3.10 1969 4 1970s 4.1 1970 4.2 1971 4.3 1972 4.4 1973 4.5 1974 4.6 1975 4.7 1976 4.8 1977 4.9 1978 4.10 1979 5 1980s 5.1 1980 5.2 1981 5.3 1984 5.4 1985 5.5 1986 5.6 1987 6 1990s 6.1 1992 6.2 1993 6.3 1994 6.4 1995 6.5 1996 6.6 1997 6.7 1998 6.8 1999 7 2000s 7.1 2000 7.2 2001 7.3 2003 7.4 2005 7.5 2006 7.6 2007 8 See also

1940s

1946

• The Killers (1946)

1949

• They Live by Night (1949)

1950s

1953

• The Wild One (1953)

1955

• The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

1958

• Look Back in Anger (1958)

1959

• The 400 Blows (1959)
• Pull My Daisy (1959)
• Room at the Top (1959)
• Shadows (1959)

1960s

1960

• Breathless (1960)
• The Entertainer (1960)
• Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1960)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Never on Sunday (1960)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• The Savage Eye (1960)
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

1961

• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• Dog Star Man (1961-1964)
• Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
• The Misfits (1961)
• A Taste of Honey (1961)
• Victim (1961)
• West Side Story (1961)
• Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

1962

• A Kind of Loving (1962)
• Knife in the Water (1962)
• The Leather Boys (1962)
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

1963

• 8 1/2 (1963)
• Billy Liar (1963)
• Contempt (1963)
• Flaming Creatures (1963)
• Scorpio Rising (1963)
• This Sporting Life (1963)
• Tom Jones (1963)

1964

• Bande à part (1964)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
• Guns of the Trees (1964)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• Zorba the Greek (1964)

1965

• Darling (1965)
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
• Help! (1965)
• The Knack...And How to Get It (1965)
• Once a Thief (1965)
• A Thousand Clowns (1965)
• The War Game (1965)
• What's New, Pussycat? (1965)

1966

• Alfie (1966)
• Any Wednesday (1966)
• Blowup (1966)
• Chappaqua (1966)
• Chelsea Girls (1966)
• The Endless Summer (1966)
• Georgy Girl (1966)
• Hallucination Generation (1966)
• Lord Love a Duck (1966)
• Masculin, féminin (1966)
• Morgan! (1966)
• The Swinger (1966)
• The Trap (1966)
• The Wild Angels (1966)
• You're a Big Boy Now (1966)

1967

• Accident (1967)
• Barefoot in the Park (1967)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• How I Won the War (1967)
• I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
• I Am Curious (Blue) (1967)
• Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
• Message for Posterity (1967)
• Smashing Time (1967)
• To Sir, With Love (1967)
• The Trip (1967)
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
• Valley of the Dolls (1967)
• Week End (1967)

1968

• Barbarella (1968)
• Candy (1968)
• Faces (1968)
• Flesh (1968)
• Greetings (1968)
• Head (1968)
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
• If... (1968)
• Maryjane (1968)
• The Party (1968)
• Petulia (1968)
• Pretty Poison (1968)
• Psych-Out (1968)
• Revolution (1968)
• Skidoo (1968)
• Three in the Attic (1968)
• Wild in the Streets (1968)
• Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968)
• Wonderwall (1968)
• Yellow Submarine (1968)

1969

• Alice's Restaurant (1969)
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
• Cactus Flower (1969)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• The Gay Deceivers (1969)
• Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
• The Italian Job (1969)
• The Magic Christian (1969)
• Medium Cool (1969)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• More (1969)
• Putney Swope (1969)
• Sweet Charity (1969)

1970s

1970

• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
• Brewster McCloud (1970)
• Catch-22 (1970)
• El Topo (1970)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• Getting Straight (1970)
• Hi, Mom! (1970)
• The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
• Husbands (1970)
• The Landlord (1970)
• M*A*S*H (1970)
• The People Next Door (1970)
• Performance (1970)
• Punishment Park (1970)
• The Revolutionary (1970)
• The Strawberry Statement (1970)
• Watermelon Man (1970)
• Woodstock (1970)
• Zabriskie Point (1970)

1971

• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Billy Jack (1971)
• Drive, He Said (1971)
• Gas-s-s-s (1971)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
• Pink Narcissus (1971)
• A Safe Place (1971)
• Shaft (1971)
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
• The Last Movie (1971)
• THX 1138 (1971)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
• Vanishing Point (1971)
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

1972

• Butterflies Are Free (1972)
• Cabaret (1972)
• Cisco Pike (1972)
• F.T.A. (1972)
• The Final Comedown (1972)
• Fritz the Cat (1972)
• Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• Pink Flamingos (1972)
• Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
• The Ruling Class (1972)
• Silent Running (1972)
• Steelyard Blues (1972)

1973

• American Graffiti (1973)
• Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
• The Final Programme (1973)
• Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
• Godspell (1973)
• The Harrad Experiment (1973)
• The Holy Mountain (1973)
• Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
• La Maman et la Putain (1973)
• Serpico (1973)
• Themroc (1973)
• The Wicker Man (1973)

1974

• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
• Dirty Duck (1974)
• Lenny (1974)
• The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
• Steppenwolf (1974)
• Sweet Movie (1974)
• The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• Zardoz (1974)

1975

• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Nashville (1975)
• Lisztomania (1975)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• That's the Way of the World (1975)
• Tommy (1975)

1976

• Helter Skelter (1976)
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1976)

1977

• Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
• Opening Night (1977)

1978

• Coming Home (1978)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• The Last Waltz (1978)
• Up in Smoke (1978)

1979

• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• The China Syndrome (1979)
• Hair (1979)
• More American Graffiti (1979)
• Over the Edge (1979)
• Quadrophenia (1979)
• The Rose (1979)

1980s

1980

• Gloria (1980)
• Out of the Blue (1980)

1981

• Shock Treatment (1981)

1984

• Repo Man (1984)
• Suburbia (1984)

1985

• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

1986

• Sid and Nancy (1986)

1987

• Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

1990s

1992

• The Living End (1992)

1993

• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Totally Fucked Up (1993)

1994

• Go Fish (1994)

1995

• The Doom Generation (1995)
• Stonewall (1995)

1996

• Camping Cosmos (1996)
• Trainspotting (1996)

1997

• Nowhere (1997)

1998

• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

1999

• Fight Club (1999)
• Splendor (1999)

2000s

2000

• Snatch (2000)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)

2001

• Waking Life (2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

2003

• The Dreamers (2003)

2005

• Mysterious Skin (2005)
• Rent (2005)

2006

• Brothers of the Head (2006)
• V for Vendetta (2006)
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

2007

• Neal Cassady (2007)
• Grindhouse (2007)

See also

• ‎Cult classic
• New Hollywood