beat poetry movies

Big Sur (2013)
4.979 / 10

Drama

Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

Black Lodge (2022)
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Music, Mystery, Horror

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest...

Beat Angel (2004)
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Drama

Jack Kerouac returns to earth as an angel with the goal of changing the life of a struggling writer.

Pull My Daisy (1959)
6 / 10

Comedy, Drama

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose...

William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash (2014)
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Documentary

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Humanities Festival brings together a motley crew...

Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
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Documentary, History

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.

Living on the Edge: The Poetic Works of Gérald Leblanc (2005)
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Documentary

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo....

The Honey Bee (2019)
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Beat poem parable to black youth.

A Line a Day Must Be Enough! (2008)
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Music, Documentary

In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar universe of Tóroddur, and the otherwise not very...