Film List Generation X incl. FREE STREAMS 

 The 90s were not only marked by the beginning of the digital age or the breakthrough of indie film. There were also these so-called Generation X movies... Douglas Coupland's novel of the same name coined the term for the generation that was born in the late 60s or early 70s and grew up with more wealth than their parents. The decade produced four ultimate cult films: Reality bites, Singles, Slackers and Before sunrise. Reality bites and singles show the 90s with grunge music from Seattle and unsettled school leavers looking back. Reality bites presents Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder, both not really beautiful and therefore all the more interesting as the faces of their generation. Richard Linklater is the most productive director of Generation X films. Slacker and Dazed and confused are ensemble films that function loosely without action, Before sunrise and Before sunset are two person films that also entertain exclusively through their real dialogues. But the theme Generation X is only supposedly new. Already the renewal phase of the American film at the end of the 60s developed very similar portraits with the atmosphere of old country ballads. The best generation portraits of the New Hollywood era are The last picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich and American Graffiti by George Lucas. Bogdanovich's film is epic, looks like a western by John Ford and shows a small American town with all its boredom. A perfectly told New Hollywood classic! Lucas' film is the wistful look back, a bittersweet ballad with beautiful music and a lot of heartache. Generation X films were already nostalgic and lived from the look back.