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Linsay Anderson film from 1968 stars Malcolm McDowell.

Life at a British Boys School becomes unbearable until the students revolt. Kind of a forerunner to "Taps" but more surreal.

McDowell's second film, his first was also for director Anderson. This film was considered one of the top Brit films ever.

Dramatic, dreamlike. stark, and thought provoking.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063850/

Clockwork Orange

Masterful film from a master movie maker. Stanley Kubrick adapted the William Burroughs novel for the screen. Amazing how both of them had a vision of the future that is remarkably accurate in retrospect....gangs, drugs, street violence, alienation, youth culture.

Street thug ( Malcolm McDowell) is arrested and put into a rehabilitation program geared toward turning him away from violence. It is so strange and disturbing that by the end of the film we are actually hoping our anti-hero goes back to his old ways.

Fascinating, disturbing, violent, and surprisingly funny at times.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/