The Iron Giant (1999), Naked Lunch (1991), What Happened to Kerouac? (1986), Howl (2010), Backbeat (1994), A Bucket of Blood (1959), Wild for Kicks (1960), Kitten With a Whip (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Beatnik movies.
Storyline: This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard.
Plot Keywords: child, mother, robot, fbi agent, beatnik, townsperson, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in North African port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.
Plot Keywords: exterminator, wife, beatnik, cockroach, doctor, alien, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: author, widow, beatnik, allen ginsberg, william s. burroughs, poet, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and animation that echoes the poem's surreal style. All three coalesce in hybrid that dramatizes the birth of a counterculture.
Plot Keywords: beatnik, poet, friend, judge, publisher, jack kerouac, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe has to choose between rock 'n roll and a new life in Germany...—Douglas Baptie
Plot Keywords: john lennon, beatnik, girlfriend, guitarist, groupie, photographer, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Walter Paisley, nerdy busboy at a Bohemian café, is jealous of the talent (and popularity) of its various artistic regulars. But after accidentally killing his landlady's cat and covering the body in plaster to hide the evidence, he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor - but his new-found friends want to see more of his work. Lacking any artistic talent whatsoever, Walter has to resort to similar methods to produce new work, and soon people start mysteriously disappearing...—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: busboy, hostess, artist, poet, landlady, beatnik, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her step mother, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street, she investigates and uses Nichole's sordid past to embarrass her father. Meanwhile Jenny attracts the lecherous eye of Kenny, the owner of the dance hall.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: teen girl, beatnik, jazz musician, stepmother, dance hall girl, brash, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 would-be officeholder wants nothing to do with her and tries to drive her away. She responds by shortly returning to his house accompanied by a gang of delinquent pals and taking him hostage. A sudden act of violence causes more trouble, leading Jody and her gang to hijack David and force him to drive a getaway car to Mexico.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: juvenile delinquent, political candidate, beatnik, friend, femme fatale, teen girl, campy ...
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