Being the adventures of a young man…who loved a bit of the old ultra-violence…went to jail, was brainwashed…and came out cured…or was he? In a futuristic welfare state, Alex, a vicious young hoodlum, sleeps all day and spends his nights roaming the city with his droogs (friends), assaulting innocent people in the streets and in their homes. Finally captured by the police, Alex undergoes rehabilitation in the form of aversion therapy as brutal and horrifying as any of his offenses.
Being the adventures of a young man…who loved a bit of the old ultra-violence…went to jail, was brainwashed…and came out cured…or was he? In a futuristic welfare state, Alex, a vicious young hoodlum, sleeps all day and spends his nights roaming the city with his droogs (friends), assaulting innocent people in the streets and in their homes. Finally captured by the police, Alex undergoes rehabilitation in the form of aversion therapy as brutal and horrifying as any of his offenses.
"A most unusual -- and disorienting -- movie experience."
New York Times
"What our nightmares have accustomed us to see in dreams, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange shows us in broad daylight. It is one of the most unsettling films in the whole of cinema."
London Evening Standard
"A merciless, demoniac satire in the future imperfect."
Time Magazine
Academy Award nominee
Best Picture; Best Director; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium; Best Film Editing
Golden Globe nominee
Best Motion Picture - Drama; Best Director - Motion Picture; Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, Malcolm McDowell
BAFTA nominee
Best Film; Best Direction; Best Art Direction; Best Cinematography; Best Film Editing; Best Screenplay; Best Sound Track