Here we've displayed a list of the best Beatnik films : The Iron Giant(1999), What Happened to Kerouac?(1986), Naked Lunch(1991), Backbeat(1994), Howl(2010), A Bucket of Blood(1959), Wild for Kicks(1960), Kitten With a Whip(1964), Captain From Castile(1947) ... ...
Fantasy, Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation
USA
1999
86 Minutes
child mother robot fbi agent beatnik townsperson heartwarming tense small town household forest junkyard rockwell, maine friendship government paranoia investigation discovery quest sacrifice
A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
Documentary
USA
1986
96 Minutes
William S. Burroughs Lewis MacAdams Jack Kerouac
author widow beatnik allen ginsberg william s. burroughs poet passionate san francisco new york city family home television studio jack kerouac alcoholism writing beat generation celebrity self-destruction transformation wretched excess 1960s
Documentary explore the unfulfilled promise of Beat Generation icon Jack Kerouac, covering the period from the publication of his notorious novel On the Road in 1957 to his alcohol-related death 12 years later.
Sci-Fi
Canada|UK|Japan
1991
115 Minutes
Peter Weller Judy Davis Ian Holm Julian Sands Roy Scheider Monique Mercure Nicholas Campbell Robert A. Silverman Joseph Scorsiani
exterminator wife beatnik cockroach doctor alien dreamy disturbing shocking outlandish new york city subconscious mind alternate reality interzone café subway poetry writing hallucinations paranoia
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Drama
UK|Germany
1994
100 Minutes
Sheryl Lee Stephen Dorff Ian Hart Gary Bakewell Chris O'Neill Scot Williams Kai Wiesinger Jennifer Ehle
john lennon beatnik girlfriend guitarist groupie photographer brash fascinating engaging germany bar apartment club liverpool, england fame the beatles rock 'n' roll difficult decision career vs. love growing up
A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.
Biography, Drama
USA
2010
84 Minutes
James Franco Jeffrey Friedman David Strathairn Jon Hamm Bob Balaban Jeff Daniels Mary-Louise Parker Treat Williams Alessandro Nivola Todd Rotondi Jon Prescott
beatnik poet friend judge publisher jack kerouac creative spirited engaging san francisco berkeley, calif. courtroom allen ginsberg poetry obscenity counterculture trial creative process wretched excess rise
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Horror
USA
1959
66 Minutes
Dick Miller Barboura Morris Anthony Carbone Judy Bamber John Brinkley Julian Burton Bert Convy Myrtle Vail Ed Nelson John Herman Shaner Bruno VeSota
busboy hostess artist poet landlady beatnik campy playful tense café city apartment art murder love quest fall 1950s
A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.
Drama
UK
1960
92 Minutes
David Farrar Noëlle Adam Christopher Lee Gillian Hills Adam Faith Shirley Anne Field Peter McEnery Claire Gordon Oliver Reed
divorce teen girl beatnik jazz musician stepmother dance hall girl brash campy cheeky hedonistic melodramatic quirky sultry england divorce stepfamily rivalry growing up 1960s
An impetuous teenage girl, resentful of her father's new wife, tries to wreck the marriage regardless of the consequences.
Drama
USA
1964
83 Minutes
juvenile delinquent political candidate beatnik friend femme fatale teen girl campy fiery offbeat california suburbia car tijuana, mexico hostage situation troubled youth fugitives thrill seeking injury road trip transformation
A rising political star faces scandal and blackmail when the young woman he tries to help turns out to be a juvenile delinquent.
Adventure
1947
140 Minutes
Tyrone Power Jean Peters Cesar Romero Lee J. Cobb John Sutton Antonio Moreno Thomas Gomez Alan Mowbray
nightclub employee beatnik conjoined twins press agent nun rousing passionate spain mexico battlefield countryside spanish culture conquest running quest pursuit 16th century
A 16th-century Spanish nobleman (Tyrone Power) escapes the Inquisition by exploring the New World with Cortez (Cesar Romero).