Dick Avery, a divatfotós új és különleges arcot keres a párizsi divatbemutatóra. Véletlenül veszi észre Jo Stockton-t, aki egy könyvesboltban eladónő. Jo-t nem érdekli a fotózás, annál inkább szeretne viszont találkozni egy különleges szekta vezetőjével, aki Párizsban él. Dick megígéri, hogy elviszi Jo-t a szekta filozófus vezetőjéhez, ha részt vesz a divatbemutatón. A problémák akkor kezdődnek, amikor a lány Párizsban valóban találkozik a filozófusa, és ez pokollá teszi az egész divatbemutatót...
A film Bob Dylan életéről szól és rendhagyó módon, többszörös szereposztással dolgozik: mind a hét színész Dylan életének és zenei pályafutásának más-más oldalát testesíti meg. Betekintést nyerhetünk Bob Dylan korai karrierjébe, a népdalénekesként töltött küzdelmes napokba; majd abba az időszakba, mikor a '60-as évek elején a népzene legismertebb egyéniségévé vált; aztán sorra kerül az ellentmondásos arculatváltás is, mikor hősünkből rocker lett. Később az alkotók felidézik a hírhedt motorbalesetet, ahogy az azt követő visszavonulást is; hogy végül eljussunk a közelmúlthoz, amit a stúdióból való fokozatos elmaradozás és a "Végtelen Turné" elnevezésű koncertsorozatra való teljes koncentráció fémjelez.
A tizenéves Kevin Harry Enfield és nem éppen szemrevaló "barátja" Perry Kathy Burke mielőbb szeretne megszabadulni a szüzesség "nyűgétől", s minél több tapasztalatra szert tenni a szexben. Hogyhogy nem, maguk is szinte meglepődnek rajta, de sikerül meghiúsítanak egy bankrablást, így ölükbe pottyan egy mesés ibizai nyaralás lehetősége. Nem sokat gondolkodnak rajta, s egy gyors pakolás után máris útra készek. Némileg kedvüket szegi ugyan, hogy a szülők is velük tartanak, ám Ibizára érve azonnal belevetik magukat az éjszakai életbe. Számtalan belevaló, no meg minden jóra kapható csajszi és srác bukkan fel, s találkoznak Paullal, a DJ-királlyal Rhys Ifans is.
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak), egy modern New York-i boszorkány, aki sziámi macskájával, Pyewackettel él Greenwich Village-ben. Egy szép napon, amikor a Jóisten örömet akar szerezni Gilliannek, betoppan hozzá a jóképű könyvkiadó, Shep Henderson (James Stewart). Gillian úgy dönt, megszerzi magának a férfit. Az ősi női birtoklási ösztönt megerősíti az a hír, hogy a kiszemelt préda Merle Kittridge-t (Janice Rule), régi gimnáziumi vetélytársnőjét készül feleségül venni. Gillian tehát elbájolja Shepet. De úgy tűnik valami erősebb minden fortélynál és varázslatnál: a szerelem.
The horrifying yet delicious and chewy Gingerdead Man causes murder and mayhem on the set of a horrible low budget movie set. It will take the determination of the studio's young new owner to save both his company and well as the lives of his young new friends. Including a terminally ill young boy whose final wish it was to meet the studios stars - The Tiny Terrors.
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.
Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy "for kicks", egged on by partner-in-crime, TV director Francis. Cliff, the boy's older brother, investigates his death due to the slow progress made by the police.
Jerry, his girlfriend Angela, and their friend Harold take a trip to a local seaside carnival, but when the carnival's fortune teller, Madame Estrella, predicts death for someone close to Angela, strange things begin to happen.
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
The sensational follow-up to "London in the Raw," "Primitive London" sets out to reflect society's decay through a sideshow spectacle of 1960s London depravity—and manages to outdo its predecessor. Here, we confront mods, rockers and beatniks at the Ace Café, cut some rug with obscure beat band The Zephyrs, smirk at flabby men in the sauna and goggle at sordid wife-swapping parties as we discover a pre-permissive Britain still trying to move on from the post-war depression of the 1950s.
A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.
This once controversial British movie that was filmed in ‘62 but released in ‘65 involves the fiancé of a depressed American heiress searching for her whereabouts amongst the Chelsea “beatnik” scene. Answers are hard to come by from the nihilistic hedonist youth that know her - but they provide mysterious hints to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.
Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allan Ginsburg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas.
A rare beatnik artifact of the early 1960s, one of only a few such films made before the hippies took over Hollywood. Low budget and in b&w, it's set in Greenwich Village, with what seems like a mostly improvised script. It begins as a late film noir crime tale involving a bank robbery where only one of a group of thieves escapes with his life, as well as $90,000 in loot. Injured and on the run, he hides in a local tour bus and is soon taken in by a group of bohemians who shoot him full of morphine to ease his pain and let him sleep it off on a mattress. Mason is the head beatnik. There's also the owner of both an upstairs coffeehouse and garret, where these beatniks hang out. They, in turn, bring the tourist trade in. Although the robbery is supposed to be the main focus of the plot, it quickly turns into more of a character study featuring these rebellious bon vivants and their odd lifestyle...
A square rich boy wants to make it with a pretty folk singer, so he buys the coffee house where she and a bunch of other beatniks perform. Features performances by The Goldebriars, The Free Wheelers, and a very young Joan Rivers doing a stand-up routine.