Counterculture movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant counterculture movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, psychedelic, offbeat, independent film, serious and humorous films and TV shows about / with counterculture, hippie, female nudity, society, nudity, sex, male nudity, drug, marijuana and bare chested male plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as counterculture: Human Traffic (1999), Zabriskie Point (1970), Punk's Not Dead (2011), Trainspotting (1996), Something in the Air (2012), The Trip (1967), Alice's Restaurant (1969), Hair (1979), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Taking Woodstock (2009).

List of counterculture movies

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 7.1
 27K
Human Traffic (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I've got 48 hours off from the world, man I'm gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming kettle. I'm gonna talk cods hit to strangers all night. I'm gonna lose the plot ...
Style: entertaining, semi serious, independent film, realistic, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: clubbing, party, nightlife, weed, music, drug, rave, lifestyle, society, paranoia, friendship, addiction ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: england, britain, wales, amsterdam
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Zabriskie Point (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: hippie, desert, counterculture, on the road, sex orgy, rebellion, politics, materialism, love and romance, rebelliousness, twentysomething life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 70s, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, italy, phoenix arizona ...
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Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: punk, music band, counterculture, dark humor, friends, society, disorder, rivalry, club, punk rock, rock, punk band ...
Time: 21st century
Place: macedonia, europe, serbia, bosnia
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 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
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 6.1
 5K
The Trip (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
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Alice's Restaurant (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 movie adapted from a song by Arlo Guthrie. The song is Arlo Guthrie's most famous work, a talking blues based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965. The movie reproduces the events of the song, in ...
Style: psychedelic, humorous, semi autobiographical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: hippie, thanksgiving, counterculture, restaurant, drug addiction, garbage dump, drug abuse, hospital, addiction, bittersweet, church, small town ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, california, vietnam, asia, usa ...
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 7.5
 41K
Hair (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: "Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on ...
Style: stylized, thought provoking, psychedelic, cult classic, retro ...
Plot: hippie, vietnam war, counterculture, broadway, anti war, rock and roll, music, nudity, dancing, lsd, dance, female nudity ...
Time: 60s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, vietnam, new york, manchester, manhattan new york city ...
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The Boat That Rocked (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government ...
Style: humorous, funny, sentimental, colorful, light ...
Plot: rock, radio, music, rock and roll, hippie, boat, rock music, friendship, rebellion, musician, coming of age, rebelliousness ...
Time: 60s, year 2009, 20th century
Place: london, britain
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Taking Woodstock (2009)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music ...
Style: feel good, stylized, light, period piece, realistic ...
Plot: hippie, music festival, music, gay, small town, eccentricity, family business, free spirited, lifestyle, drug, fish out of water, rock ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 2009, year 1969
Place: woodstock, bangkok thailand, brooklyn new york city, new york, new york state
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The Strawberry Statement (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Simon (Bruce Davison), a student at a fictional university in San Francisco (based on San Francisco State College) is indifferent to the student protests around him, until walking in on a naked woman (Kristina Holland) in his dormitory ...
Style: political, social, serious, realistic
Plot: hippie, counterculture, vietnam war, chaos, university, marxist, anarchist, liberal, underground, feminism, anarchy, commune ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: san francisco
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Wild in the Streets (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John ...
Style: psychological, independent film, cynical, biting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hippie, satire, counterculture, lsd, politics, juvenile delinquent, congress, organist, concert, attorney, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, blonde ...
Time: 60s
Place: washington d.c., los angeles
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 7.9
 363
Mandrake (2005)
Genre: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Meet Paulo Mandrake, a charismatic defense attorney who finds himself sidetracked by his vices--especially beautiful Brazilian women--while serving as a liaison between his high-end clients and the Rio de Janeiro subculture. Marcos Palmeira stars in ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, captivating, humorous
Plot: lawyer, womanizer, legal investigation, courtroom drama, society, legal, lawyers and clients, counterculture, courtroom, one night stand, blackmail, dating ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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 5.6
 80K
Wanderlust (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.
Style: satirical, funny, humorous, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: hippie, nudist, couples, infidelity, couple relations, commune, skinny dipping, nudism, marijuana, life philosophy, free love, adultery ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: new york, georgia, usa
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I Drink Your Blood (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A band of satanist hippies roll into a town and begin terrorizing the local folk. After raping a local girl, her grandpa goes after them, only to be beaten and forced to take LSD. His grandson then plots revenge on the satanists by feeding them meat ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, satanic, terrifying ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, rabies, satanist, rape and revenge, exploitation, zombie, machete, counterculture, revenge, virus, occult ...
Time: 60s
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 6.4
 1K
The Valley (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, sexy, mind bending, ambiguous ending ...
Plot: counterculture, pink floyd, hippie, filmmaking, nature, magic realism, european, jungle, wilderness, male nudity, public nudity, male pubic hair ...
Time: 70s
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Important Things with Demetri Martin (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the "important thing", such as timing, power, control and money. All ...
Style: realistic, witty, humorous, not serious, clever ...
Plot: comedian, musician, singer, stand up comedian, absurd humor, actor, artists and showbiz, society, talented, sketch, counterculture, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.
Style: underground film
Plot: counterculture, erotica, group sex, hippie, gay subtext, college dropout, sex scene, drug, nudity, party, masturbation, sex ...
Place: new york
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Masculin FĂ©minin (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style: intellectual, philosophical, talky, clever, erotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: counterculture, women, relationships, politics, revolution, hippie, european, sexuality, social commentary, violence, sex, hipster ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa
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Work is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet ...
Style: psychedelic, dark comedy
Plot: counterculture, machine, swing, hippie, eccentricity, fiance fiancee relationship, surrealism, underground, technology, mushroom, employment, factory ...
Time: future
Place: england
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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Harold Fine is a self-described square - a 35-year-old Los Angeles lawyer who's not looking forward to middle age nor his upcoming wedding. His life changes when he falls in love with Nancy, a free-spirited, innocent, and beautiful young ...
Style: psychedelic, parody, funny, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hippie, manic pixie dream girl, counterculture, swing, fish out of water, drug, commune, quirky character, art, free love, lawyer, midlife crisis ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Jigsaw (1968)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
Plot: counterculture, private investigator, hippie, investigation, lsd, amnesia, murder, blackmail, government, death, apartment
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 5.9
 3K
Psych-Out (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose ...
Style: grindhouse, psychedelic, sad, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot: hippie, counterculture, lsd, deaf, drug, stoner, underground, acid, biker, mental disorder, commune, rock and roll ...
Time: 60s
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
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Medium Cool (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: John Cassellis is the toughtest TV-news-reporter around. He becomes an expert in reporting about violence in the ghetto and racial tensions. But he discovers that his network helps the FBI by letting them look at his tapes to find suspects. When he ...
Style: independent film, political, cult classic, cynical, disturbing ...
Plot: journalism, politics, hippie, bare chested male, counterculture, photographer, vietnam war, journalist, culture clash, american politics, american history, photograph ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1968, 20th century
Place: chicago, washington d.c., usa, west virginia, america ...
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Getting Straight (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: vietnam war, hippie, counterculture, college, anti war, swing, interracial, revolution, african american, university, teacher, student ...
Time: 60s, 70s
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The Last Movie (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are ...
Style: psychedelic, cult classic, mondo, surreal, serious ...
Plot: counterculture, filmmaking, cowboy, mountain, hippie, acid, stuntman, fictional biography, free will, cinema, prostitute, society ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: peru, kansas, usa, latin america, andes mountains ...
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Ciao Manhattan (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The very sad tale of socialite & Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) who effectively plays herself in a film that follows her life in a large part from the time she left Warhol's 'factory' and what the life of excess drugs did ...
Style: mondo, independent film, experimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: counterculture, fashion, electroshock therapy, art, free spirited, sexploitation, hippie, hitchhiking, biopic, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, factory ...
Time: year 1972, 60s
Place: new york, california, usa
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 5.5
 490
Eggshells (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, independent film, experimental ...
Plot: hippie, counterculture, male nudity, nudity, roommate, sexual revolution, stealing a car, commune, haunted house, symbolism, sex scene, wedding ceremony ...
Time: 60s
Place: austin texas, texas
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The Acid Eaters (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
Style: grindhouse, psychedelic, surreal, spoof, independent film
Plot: counterculture, drug, sexploitation, hippie, lsd, exploitation, nudity, group, devil, motorcycle, surrealism, sex ...
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Smoke and Flesh (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
Style: independent film
Plot: counterculture, voyeurism, orgy, hippie, marijuana, party, sex, female nudity, friend, swinger party, hooligan, drug ...
Place: new york
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