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Barry Lyndon

1975 · 188 min · Drama

A cunning, ambitious Irish rogue schemes, duels, and marries his way up through the aristocracy of 18th-century Europe, only to find his hard-won status as fragile as it is hollow. Stanley Kubrick's exquisitely painterly period epic from Thackeray.

Why it’s here

Stanley Kubrick’s American-led masterpiece views eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland through the rise and collapse of an outsider inside British aristocratic society.

Runtime

188 min

Genre

Drama · War · History

Mood

tense · thoughtful · dark

Entry

challenging

Best for

first visit

Content notes: war or political violence Non-exhaustive