Beat generation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant beat generation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, serious, melancholic, weird and art house films and TV shows about / with beat generation, friendship, art, female nudity, storytelling, runaway, dialogue, coming of age, lifestyle and drinking plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as beat generation: On the Road (2012), Big Sur (2013), Howl (2010), Kill Your Darlings (2013), Naked Lunch (1991), Beat (2000), Neal Cassady (2007), Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Chappaqua (1966), Losers' Club (2011).
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style:
road movie, sexy, inspirational, period piece, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, on the road, writers, beat generation, homoeroticism, nude, infidelity, homoerotic friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, poetry ...
Time:
1940s, year 1948, 1950s, year 1951, year 1949 ...
Place:
nebraska, arizona, california, usa, virginia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Style:
sincere, realistic, captivating, serious, independent film
Plot:
beat generation, friendship between men, friendship, writer's life, introspection, mentally unstable, lifestyle, solitude, solitary, social relations, addiction, novelist ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, california, san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sexual, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
poet, gay, poetry, writers, homosexuality, beat generation, literature, freedom, biopic, lgbt, gay interest, art ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1920s, post world war two, year 1957 ...
Place:
california, san francisco, kansas, bronx new york city, arkansas ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, surrealism, exterminator, nightmare, addiction, trippy, repressed homosexual, secret agent, drug addiction, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, homosexuality ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
north africa, usa, new york, canada
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2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot:
beat generation, love triangle, infidelity, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, celebrity culture, drug abuse, addiction, adultery, rebellion, rebel ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
new york, mexico, usa, latin america, mexico city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets ...
Style:
erotic, talky, stylized, independent film, retro ...
Plot:
writers, beat generation, friendship, making love, suicide, writer's life, male nudity, depression, older man teenage girl relationship, suicide attempt, art, poet ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 60s, post world war two ...
Place:
colorado, usa, denver colorado, new mexico, mexico ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story of what happened to Neal Cassady after Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" came out. Deals primarily with Neal's relationship to his fictional alter-ego, Dean Moriarty.
Style:
captivating, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot:
beat generation, self discovery, on the road, buddies, life is a bitch, celebrity culture, drug abuse, fame, road trip, beatnik, hipster, art ...
Time:
60s, 50s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style:
cult classic, road movie, independent film, depressing, grim ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, heroin, dark humor, drug addiction, drug, junkie, friendship, on the road, drug addict, beat generation, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
usa, portland oregon
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with ...
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, surreal, mind bending, grindhouse ...
Plot:
hippie, counterculture, beat generation, drug addiction, surrealism, drug, junkie, trippy, lsd, music and dance, art, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
paris france, france, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kaan and Mete, co-hosts of a mid 1990s radio show called Kaybedenler Kulübü (Losers' Club), struggle to deal with their daily lives after their show becomes an instant hit. Kaan meets Zeynep, the girl of his dreams, but their relationship ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, touching, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
sex scene, sex, architect, urban legend, best friend, sex talk, beat generation, foreplay, turk, photograph, photography, bookseller ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, surreal, art house, spiritual ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surrealism, stop motion, college, earth, beat generation, heaven, counterculture, spirituality, abstract art, alchemy, columbia university, cat ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New York City.
Style:
independent film, art house, satirical, experimental, avant garde
Plot:
self discovery, counterculture, character study, slice of life, beat generation, city life, identity crisis, fashion, young adult, voice over narration, absurdism, idealism ...
Time:
year 1971
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment belonging to Leach. Jim Dunn, a budding filmmaker, has agreed to pay for the fix if the addicts will allow him to film the connection scene. After the men get their shots, ...
Style:
mockumentary, underground film, bleak, controversial, indie film ...
Plot:
found footage, drug addiction, jazz, heroin, substance abuse, hopelessness, overdose, desperation, claustrophobia, ethical dilemma, urban decay, street life ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for nothing son Berry-Berry..
Style:
black and white, social, retro, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, christmas, passionate kiss, adolescence, drug addiction, bus, beat generation, siblings, age-gap relationship, pregnancy, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ohio, florida, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style:
funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york, columbus ohio
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jody, a juvenile delinquent, escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned by an ambitious politician David Patton. Despite the hellcat's ample charms, the ...
Style:
cult classic, political, grindhouse, neo noir, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
juvenile delinquent, juvenile delinquency, evil child, lonely, beat generation, tough girl, nymphet, strong female lead, underground, femme fatale, kidnapping, hospital ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico, latin america, usa, tijuana mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off ...
Style:
retro, psychotronic, hilarious, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
racing, dancing, rock and roll, elvis presley, gambling, music, auto racing, dance, race, rock, car, casino ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964, 80s
Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Style:
teen, humorous, melancholic, retro, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, car, friendship, teenager, small town, high school student, drag racing, love at first sight, rock and roll, street racing, street gang ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1962, near future ...
Place:
california, arizona, usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Style:
romantic comedy, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gay, cat, father son relationship, homosexual, beatnik, aspiring actor, bohemian, abortion, judaism, journey, beat generation ...
Time:
1950s, year 1976, 20th century, 50s, year 1953
Place:
greenwich village manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
Style:
independent film, serious, art house, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot:
aging, actor, actress, theater, thoughtful, strong female lead, existentialism, art, beat generation, filmmaking, time travel, recovery ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life ...
Style:
talky, black comedy, depressing, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
addiction, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, bartender, drinking, poet, misfit, biopic, drinking alcohol, dark hero, mentally unstable, loser ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who ...
Style:
sexual, controversial, art house, disturbing, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, male masturbation, teenage sexuality, male bonding, loser, peeping, necrophiliac, necrophilia, sexual assault, voyeurism, outcast, art ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 70s, 60s, 50s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
road movie, homoerotic, art house, erotic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, male prostitute, friendship, homosexual, coming of age, unrequited love, male prostitution, male friendship, lgbt, homoerotic friendship, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, oregon, italy, rome italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess' sends her to his ranch in CA to shoot a commercial, set against the ...
Style:
surreal, road movie, humorous, entertaining, stylized ...
Plot:
hitchhiking, lesbian, woman urinating, lgbtq, female nudity, on the road, lgbt, lone hero, multiple storylines, lesbian sex, obsessive quest, self discovery ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
usa, new york, oregon, richmond virginia, minneapolis minnesota
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, protest, sexual relations, sex, nudity, youth, couples, love triangle, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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103K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, independent film, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, violence, teacher, bullying, teenage girl, mass murder, violent, high school, teenager, youth, school, rage ...
Time:
year 2003, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Style:
meditative, stylized, lyrical, talky, philosophical ...
Plot:
music, musician, actor, biopic, poet, rock, brutality, musician's life, art, african american, music history, drug ...
Time:
70s, year 1964, year 2007, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, minnesota, new york, manhattan new york city, california ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style:
sexy, factual, sentimental, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
art, fashion, artist, biopic, bare butt, addiction, destiny, drug addiction, couple relations, painter, cowboy, mentor ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gay, gay slur, gay interest, ambition, actor's life, introspection, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, hopes, friendship, murder, celebrity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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