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- Easy Rider (1969) Directed by Dennis Hopper. Starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson. Adventure, Drama (1h 35m) 7.3 on IMDb — 84% on RT. We're selecting Easy Rider as our number one hippie movie of all time.
- The Big Lebowski (1998) Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore. Comedy, Crime (1h 57m) 8.1 on IMDb — 80% on RT.
- Inherent Vice (2014) Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson. Comedy, Crime, Drama (2h 28m) 6.6 on IMDb — 74% on RT.
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie. Comedy, Drama (2h 41m) 7.6 on IMDb — 85% on RT.
- 10 ‘Eggshells’
- 9 ‘Wanderlust’
- 8 ‘Psych-Out’
- 7 ‘The Trip’
- 6 ‘Taking Woodstock’
- 5 ‘The Doors’
- 4 ‘Daisies’
- 3 ‘The Wicker Man’
- 2 ‘Hair’
- 1 ‘Easy Rider’
Tobe Hooper, known for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, made his directorial debut with the trippy art film Eggshells. A group of disillusioned college students aspires to live off the land and find an antiquated house in the woods to live in. However, as time passes, they have the uneasy feeling that they are being watched. The film contains many hall...
Wanderlust features a very gentle parody of life on a commune as lead characters George (Paul Rudd) and Linda Gergenblatt (Jennifer Anniston) live amid a hippie utopia. A series of comic mishaps, as well as a promiscuous and naïve yogi named Seth (Justin Theroux), upend the couple’s lives and make them reconsider returning to city life. It’s exactl...
Jack Nicholson, proving he’s the ultimate hippie actor, delivers an unforgettable performance inPsych-Out, a film about hippies in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in the 60s. Jenny (Susan Strasberg) is on a mission to find her long-lost brother, but her plans get derailed when she becomes infatuated with the experimental band 'Mumblin Jim.'...
Roger Corman, known for pumping out a slew of B-movies and being an inspiration for auteurs like Martin Scorsese, takes the audience on a hallucinogenic voyage in The Trip. Paul Groves (Fonda) is a TV commercial director who takes LSD while going through a painful divorce. The rest of the movie chronicles the highs and lows of his trip as he meets ...
Taking Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee, explores the outsiders who helped make the iconic musical gathering happen. It’s a charming shaggy-dog comedy that quietly explores what type of ambition and wildness it takes to organize the largest hippie gathering in history (permanently influencing hippie culture in the process). The film doesn’t really fo...
Oliver Stone’s The Doors is a biographical musical film about Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) and his bandmates as they skyrocket to fame before quickly becoming undone by drugs and alcohol. It portrayed Morrison as a wild man, frequently encouraging his own band to follow in his eccentric footsteps. His need to experience life’s excesses eventually lead...
What should a person’s rational response be to a world that is completely indifferent to their wants and needs? In Daisies, the solution is to be as debauched and wicked as the worst the world has to give. One of the best films about hippies, the movie revolves around two young women (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie, who are hi...
There was a lot of backlash against the hippie movement, especially the destructive parts of free love and excessive drug use that many more conservative people perceived. The Wicker Man follows Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) as an uptight, rule-abiding Christian man investigating a cult of pagan hippies who’ve created their own island commune. T...
Hair directly results from Hollywood’s massive anti-Vietnam War response, and how the hippie movement was born out of anti-war sentiment. The musical depicts Claude Hooper Bukowski (John Savage) on his way to a draft-board appointment in New York before getting sidetracked by a group of free spirits. Claude goes on a drug-fueled bender with his new...
Easy Rider, directed by and starring Hopper along with Fonda, is arguably the most well-known and influential of all the best hippie movies. The film follows two Harley-Davidson-riding hippies on a trek across the country to deliver cocaine in Southern California. The pair at the heart of Easy Rideractively embrace the values of the hippie movement...
- The Trip. This 1967 motion picture The Trip is one of the first and best, if not the best, representations of the hippie subculture in the 1960s. Written by Jack Nicholson and directed by the legendarily prolific Roger Corman, the narrative follows a TV commercial director who takes LSD to distract himself from the heartbreak of his recent divorce.
- Woodstock. This 1970 American documentary film Woodstock captured the titular music festival in the summer of 1969 which, to many, was the most explicit manifestation of the hippie movement.
- Eggshells. Directed by Tobe Hooper, a man known for his contributions to the horror genre with Texas Chain Saw Massacre and many others, Eggshells rides the line between experimental and intentionally horrifying.
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Partly based around the same events as Helter Skelter, this Quentin Tarantino movie follows a famous actor and his stunt double navigating Hollywood in the late 1960s.
Uschi Obermeier, a German cover model from the 1960s who embodied the dreams of the hippie generation - joins a commune, begins a modelling career, meets rock stars, and travels the world in a bus, enjoying love, drugs and freedom.
The diverse student population airs scathing political exposes on their privately owned television station. The narrow-minded townspeople have different ideas about their brand of liberalism. Billy Jack is released and things heat up for the school.
Aug 11, 2015 · Here are 50 films inspired by hippie culture, which is the subject of a screening series this week at New York’s Anthology Film Archives.
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