Counterculture Movies, Movies about Counterculture

Here we've displayed a list of the best Counterculture films : Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth(1998), Easy Riders, Raging Bulls(2003), Medium Cool(1969), Howl(2010), East of Havana(2006), The Big Fix(1978), Alice's Restaurant(1969), The Trip(1967), Wild in the Streets(1968), The Glory Stompers(1968), Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation(1999), Superdad(1974) ... ...

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Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed ... See full summary »

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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.

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Medium Cool

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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Howl

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.

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East of Havana

East of Havana is a blunt, unflinching close-up on the lives of three young rappers compelled to address their generation's future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto. Soandry, Magyori, and... See full summary »

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The Big Fix

An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.

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Alice's Restaurant

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

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The Trip

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

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Wild in the Streets

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.

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The Glory Stompers

Chino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.

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Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation

Filmmaker Chuck Workman charts the achievements of Beat notables Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady.

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Superdad

A concerned father (Bob Crane) tries to hang out with his teenage daughter and her boyfriend (Kurt Russell).

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Wildflowers

A motherless lass (Clea DuVall), obsessed with a beautiful hippie (Daryl Hannah) and her ex-lover, gradually comes to terms with her parents' radical past.

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