The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise, L’eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.

Antonioni’s poetic chronicle of late ‘60’s American counter culture finds the hippy dream goes sour in this surreal desert odyssey about a man attempting to take leave from society. Accompanied by an iconic score by The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd, Antonioni’s film perfectly captured a certain place and moment in history, and its central idea of not wanting a specially selected elite to be the mouthpiece of a nation remains brutally prescient even today.

Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked Taiwan in the 1960s. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centres on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager from innocence to juvenile delinquency.

Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey features Rita Tushingham in her star-making debut role as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, Richardson’s classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism.

A programme of six extraordinary films exploring questions of identity, personality, and the illusory nature of appearance.