A Clockwork Orange

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Stanley Kubrick's iconic film is a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. Adapted from Anthony Burgess’s 1962 decline-of-civilisation novel, A Clockwork Orange (originally written in the invented street slang Nadsat), the film tells the story of Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his thug friends, addicted to mindless acts of violence, killing tramps and raping women. Equally violent, is the state's aversion therapy Alex is forced to endure to cure him of his addiction...