Movies and TvShows featuring "counter-culture" theme.

The Jerry Springer Show is a cult TV show known for its controversial topics and audience participation. It features interviews and discussions on various subjects, often involving heated arguments and confrontations. The show gained notoriety for its bleeped dialogue, chanting audience, and its famous line 'Jerry! Jerry!' It has been airing since 1991 and continues to be a guilty pleasure for many viewers.

In 1968, during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, massive protests against the Vietnam War occurred. After a curfew was imposed, the protests escalated into a police riot. Seven demonstrators, including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and others, were charged with conspiracy. The story revolves around their trial and the events leading up to it.

Set in Sicily, Italy in the 1970s, a young man defies the Sicilian Mafia and rises to become a powerful crime boss, overcoming various obstacles and challenges along the way.

In 1960s London, a fashion photographer accidentally captures a murder on his camera. As he investigates the mysterious images, he becomes immersed in a world of suspicion, illusion, and surreal encounters. With the help of a mysterious woman, he tries to uncover the truth while losing his sense of reality.

Zabriskie Point is a drama that explores themes of counterculture, disillusionment, and social unrest in 1970s America. The story follows a college student who becomes involved with a group of hippies and finds himself on a road trip that leads to chaos and tragedy. Along the way, he encounters themes of nonconformity, protest, and the clash between the establishment and the counterculture movement. The movie also explores themes of love, sex, and freedom, as well as the destructive power of corporate greed and police brutality. Zabriskie Point is regarded as a cult classic and an experimental film that captures the spirit of the era.

Howl is a biographical drama that tells the story of Allen Ginsberg, an American poet who gained fame for his unconventional and controversial writing style. The movie focuses on the obscenity trial of Ginsberg's poem 'Howl' and explores themes of freedom of speech, homosexuality, and censorship. Set in post-World War II USA, the film provides a glimpse into the counterculture movement and the beat generation. Through interviews, poetry readings, and animated sequences, Howl offers an intimate look at Ginsberg's life and the societal challenges he faced.

Chicago 10 is an animated documentary about the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the trial of the activists known as the Chicago Seven. The film combines archival footage, animation, and reenactments to explore the events and the political and social climate of the time. The movie sheds light on the protests, clashes with the police, and the subsequent trial that captivated the nation.

The Howl is a surreal and absurd comedy-horror movie set in the 1970s. It follows the story of a group of hippies and prisoners who join forces to overthrow the corrupt police force. Along the way, they encounter bizarre situations and engage in outrageous acts, such as car crashes, machine gun fights, and even orgies. The movie is filled with political satire, surrealism, and dark humor.

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.

The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S. militants of the '60s, such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, with reenactments of their Chicago trials (i.e., the "Chicago Eight," etc.). Other figures of cultural interest from the time, including Alan Ginsberg and Buckminster Fuller, are interviewed or featured. The filmmaker indicates his belief that powerful forces in the U.S. government worked together to suppress American radicals. This view, widely disbelieved at the time, has since been confirmed.

1991: The Year Punk Broke is a documentary film that explores the rise of punk rock music in 1991, featuring performances and behind-the-scenes footage of iconic bands like Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their European tour. It showcases the energy and influence of punk rock on the music scene during that time.

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned for a short while in 1973. Disillusioned after the failure of the demonstrations and the death of the only woman he had loved, his life seems to have changed from a period of hope and activism to one of bottomless despair. His friend, Romain Goupil wrote and directed this biographical documentary. Death at 30 received the 1982 Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera Award for "Best First Feature-Length Film."

In a dystopian future, a television presenter's alter ego fights against a totalitarian media landscape dominated by corporate advertising and ratings-driven talk shows. Set in an alternate reality, the story explores themes of artificial intelligence, postmodernism, and the counter-culture movement.

Parents in a small, conservative community don't think that the sex drive is a normal thing for children to experience. So much so, that they label education in that regard as a communist plot. The group of prudes is led by an impotent alcoholic and a gay policeman.

An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around them. When a few students decide to bring the more liberal, artsy side of the revolution onto campus, they face opposition from much of the school's staff.

Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.

Swinging London, 1969. From his flat in Notting Hill Gate, Ray Purbbs edits an 'underground' (that is, counterculture) magazine, Mouth, assisted by his fellow hippies Alex, Jill and Hugo. Ray is passionate about protest, ludicrously enthusiastic about every hip trend and convinced he is (or could be) a major player in the battle between the Establishment and the alternative society. Alex - though he comes from a wealthy background and seems more interested in golf than altering society - is coolness personified, a man so laid-back he seems to exist outside of reality. Jill embraces all the new-found liberty afforded her gender and claims to espouse free love, though this attitude doesn't stretch to her 'boyfriend', Ray, long been deprived of her carnal interest. Hugo is spectacularly vague, almost brilliant in his obliqueness. Led by Ray, the quartet jump on every trendy bandwagon and comprehensively fail to make the slightest bit of difference in all they do. The gang are pretty useless at everything - in fact, they're not even that good at being hippies.

After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City. Associated through mutual friendships, these cultural dissidents looked for new ways and means to express themselves. Soon their writings found an audience and the American media took notice, dubbing them the Beat Generation. Members of this group included writers Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. a trinity that would ultimately influence the works of others during that era, including the "hippie" movement of the '60s. In this 55-minute video narrated by Allen Ginsberg, members of the Beat Generation (including the aforementioned Burroughs, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky, Amiri Baraka, Diane Di Prima, and Timothy Leary) are reunited at Naropa University in Boulder, CO during the late 1970's to share their works and influence a new generation of young American bohemians.

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.

American Hardcore is a documentary that explores the rise of the underground punk-rock movement in America during the 1980s. It takes a deep dive into the music, philosophy, and rebellion of the era, highlighting the influential bands, the powerful lyrics, and the impact it had on youth culture. Through interviews, music, and archival footage, the film captures the raw energy of the movement and its lasting legacy.