You're Gonna Miss Me (2005), Woodstock (1970), Roger Waters: Us + Them (2019), Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982), Trainspotting (1996), Monterey Pop (1969), Jimi Hendrix (1973), Hair (1979) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychedelic Rock movies.
Storyline: Nora Walker is told that her British fighter pilot husband is missing in action and presumed killed in World War II. On V.E. Day, Nora gives birth to their son, who she names Tommy. While Tommy is an adolescent, Nora marries Frank, a shifty camp counselor. Shortly thereafter, Tommy suffers an emotionally traumatic experience associated with his father and step-father, which, based on things told to him at that time, results in him becoming deaf, dumb and blind, a situation which several people exploit for their own pleasure. As Nora tries several things to bring Tommy out of his psychosomatic disabilities, Tommy, now a young man, happens upon pinball as a stimulus. Playing by intuition, Tommy becomes a pinball master, which in turn makes him, and by association Nora and Frank, rich and famous. Nora literally shatters Tommy to his awakening, which ultimately leads to both the family's rise and downfall as people initially try to emulate Tommy's path then rebel against it.
Plot Keywords: musical, rock, blindness, redemption, cult, psychedelic, visual spectacle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wealthy twenty-two year old Max Frost - born Max Jacob Flatow, Jr. - is a rock music superstar, he a rock music franchise unto himself. He has cut ties with his parents, especially due to the control wielded by his overbearing mother, Daphne Flatow, that control against which he rebelled and is still rebelling in the form of having an entourage solely of young people, who he believes knows better than people even a few years older than them. Age-wise, the senior member of his entourage is his acid-dropping girlfriend, former child star Sally LeRoy, age twenty-four, the junior member being fifteen year old Yale law graduate Billy Cage, his business advisor and his band's guitarist. Max decides to endorse thirty-seven year old Congressman Johnny Fergus, running on the Democratic ticket for a California senate seat, as one of Johnny's platform policies is to lower the voting age to eighteen. Johnny happily accepts that endorsement because of Max's power over young people, whose votes Johnny is trying to court. But as Max sees that Johnny doesn't go far enough in his policies - Max believing the voting age should be fourteen so someone like Billy can vote - Max figures the best way to get what he wants is to start his own political machine, first within the current regulations of the land, then once "in", working from the inside to change the laws to transfer the power from the "old" - who he and his team see as anyone over thirty-four - to the young. The questions become how far Max and his team will go to ensure his vision of the world comes to fruition, and how far the establishment will go to try and stop him and his followers.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: counterculture, psychedelic rock, political satire, 1960s, generation gap, rock music, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Touring makes you crazy", Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this movie came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.—George S. Davis
Plot Keywords: musical film, rock music, experimental film, surrealism, comedy, avant-garde, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.
Plot Keywords: biography, music, drama, rock, musician, 1960s, england ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The eccentric professor Oscar Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When a model (Penny Lane) and her photographer boyfriend move in next to him, he becomes fascinated with her. He drills holes in the walls and ceiling and peeps on her day and night. He loses himself in daydreams and delusions.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, psychedelic, experimental, music, visual, art, avant-garde ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jenny Davis (Susan Strasberg) is a deaf young woman who has run away from home to search for her missing brother. Arriving in the hippie-filled Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, Jenny befriends a rock group with heavy psychedelic leanings, becoming close to band member Stoney (Jack Nicholson). Aided by Dave (Dean Stockwell), who used to be in the ensemble, Stoney and Jenny come closer to tracking down her sibling, and venture into trippy territory while on hallucinogens.
Plot Keywords: psychedelic, rock, counterculture, san francisco, 1960s, drug culture, music festival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, black comedy, dystopian, political satire, psychedelic, surreal, postmodern ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 80's, after seeing his father and lumberjack foreman being hit by a protestor against the deforesting and arrested by the police, the boy Gus kills the protestor with a chainsaw. In the present days, Samantha, who is traumatized after being abused by her former boyfriend Jimmy, travels with her pothead friends in a van to the American Free Love Festival, a rock-and-roll concert in the woods. Near the location, they are assaulted by three local hillbillies, but they succeed to arrive in the festival. Meanwhile, Mayor Hal Burton and Deputy Buzz Hall try to give a minimum of organization to the event. However, a deranged psychopath serial-killer wearing a mask of Ronald Reagan uses an ax to kill the pacific stoned hippies.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, gory, slasher, satire, political, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Infamous psychedelic all-star comedy about ex-gangster Tony Banks, who's called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.—Alex Barylski <asbarylski@msn.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, psychedelic, black comedy, drug culture, counterculture, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When an aspiring artist who sells pot (Luke Wilson) argues with his girfriend (Alicia Witt), their house accidentally catches fire.
Plot Keywords: independent film, comedy, romance, drug culture, 1990s, musicians, counterculture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Holland, two wasted Americans (Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong) wander into Amsterdam and stage a show to bail out a film festival.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, music, drug culture, humor, psychedelic, counterculture ...
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