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

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poison...

Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the fi...

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac...

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, an...

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

To celebrate the 100th birthday of America's most audacious writer, William S. Burroughs, Chicago Hu...

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end o...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attac...
Diane di Prima (1934-2020) was a poet, writer, publisher and playwright whose work has been associat...

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemp...

Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg an...

In a film bursting with lyrics, pictures, and music the director shows us a way into the peculiar un...