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

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

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

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

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

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons ...

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

Howl is an homage to the reading rituals of the Beat poets, to Wholly Communion, to 1965, to Allen G...

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and...
The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is tol...

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

A portrait of Norwegian poet Odd Børretzen in his own words, featuring musical highlights from Børre...

A woman tries to tell her teenaged son that she and her friend are romantically involved.

John Warriner, facing financial ruin, accepts the proposal of a bootlegger, Benedict, to underwrite ...

A musical set in a logging village in Taiwan. Romance and singing abound as a logger and a pretty g...