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) ... ...
Documentary
USA
1998
93 Minutes
Robert De Niro Lenny Bruce
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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 »
Documentary
UK|Canada
2003
119 Minutes
filmmaker film critic film studio executive film editor actor actress confident cool fascinating engaging hollywood, calif. studio new york city film set hollywood cinema history counterculture youth influence changing times
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
Drama
USA
1969
110 Minutes
Robert Forster Verna Bloom Peter Bonerz Mariana Hill Harold Blankenship Sid McCoy Christine Bergstrom Robert McAndrew William Sickinger Beverly Younger
tv reporter political activist cameraman widow police officer hippie fiery engaging raw intense chicago democratic national convention tv station protest protest social change media anti-war movement counterculture vietnam war
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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.
Documentary
USA
2006
82 Minutes
Emilia Menocal
rapper government official dj rousing inspiring alamar, cuba musical gathering rap music social change censorship counterculture communism poverty underdog quest 2000s
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 »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1978
108 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss Susan Anspach Bonnie Bedelia John Lithgow Ofelia Medina Nicolas Coster F. Murray Abraham Fritz Weaver Jorge Cervera Jr. Michael Hershewe Rita Karin
private investigator politician ex-hippie ex-girlfriend fugitive father amusing offbeat los angeles office house swimming pool corruption political campaign investigation terrorism counterculture pursuit mystery love
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1969
111 Minutes
Arlo Guthrie Pat Quinn James Broderick Michael McClanathan Geoff Outlaw Tina Chen Kathleen Dabney Monroe Arnold
activist hippie singer quirky madcap restaurant courtroom counterculture protest vietnam war military draft music underdog adventure 1960s
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.
Fantasy
USA
1967
85 Minutes
Peter Fonda Susan Strasberg Bruce Dern Dennis Hopper Salli Sachse Barboura Morris Judy Lang Luana Anders
director guru friend hippie beautiful woman estranged wife dreamy outlandish offbeat campy los angeles mansion fantasy world beach carnival funeral drugs starting over self-discovery hallucinations
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Comedy
USA
1968
97 Minutes
Shelley Winters Christopher Jones Diane Varsi Richard Pryor Kevin Coughlin Michael Margotta May Ishihara Salli Sachse Hal Holbrook Millie Perkins Bert Freed
politician revolutionary singer guitarist anthropologist senator eerie chilling offbeat los angeles mansion washington, d.c. political rally congress counterculture political activism hypocrisy political campaign youth hero worship
A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.
Action
USA
1968
85 Minutes
Dennis Hopper Jody McCrea Chris Noel Jock Mahoney Jim Reader Saundra Gale Robert Tessier Astrid Warner Gary Wood Lindsay Crosby Casey Kasem
biker gang leader thug girlfriend friend police officer wild outlandish offbeat unrestrained california woods hideout party mexico kidnapping counterculture motorcycle gang attempted rape showdown
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.
Documentary
1999
90 Minutes
beat poet writer college student free spirit creative inspiring fascinating cool new york city columbia university san francisco road beat generation counterculture jack kerouac allen ginsberg william s. burroughs influence rise transformation
Filmmaker Chuck Workman charts the achievements of Beat notables Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady.
Comedy, Kids & Family
1974
95 Minutes
Bob Crane Barbara Rush Kurt Russell Joe Flynn Kathleen Cody Bruno Kirby Joby Baker Dick Van Patten Judith Lowry Ivor Francis Jonathan Daly
father daughter surfer beach bum hippie activist airy lighthearted los angeles beach ocean generation gap father/daughter relationship marriage college admission counterculture surfing love quest 1970s
A concerned father (Bob Crane) tries to hang out with his teenage daughter and her boyfriend (Kurt Russell).
Drama
1999
97 Minutes
Clea DuVall Daryl Hannah Tomas Arana Eric Roberts Irene Bedard
young woman mysterious woman drug dealer father hippie poet dreamy suspenseful winsome marin county, calif. san francisco houseboat garden festival coming of age birth parents counterculture identity secret past obsession
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.