William S. Burroughs Movies
- 1989
Drugstore Cowboy
Drugstore Cowboy7.0971989HD
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine,...
- 1991
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch7.0241991HD
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After...
- 1994
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues4.41994HD
A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.
- 1989
Twister
Twister5.71989HD
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He...
- 1970
Queer
Queer01970HD
Lee is an insecure man afflicted with heroin withdrawal who is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton.
- 1984
Decoder
Decoder6.21984HD
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local...
- 2018
Take Your Pills
Take Your Pills6.5682018HD
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
- 1999
The Source
The Source5.11999HD
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in...
- 1998
The Book of Life
The Book of Life6.31998HD
New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and debate the end of the world.
- 1989
Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting5.61989HD
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...
- 1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bloodhounds of Broadway5.71989HD
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...
- 2006
Wanderlust
Wanderlust52006HD
A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd...
- 1994
Glitterbug
Glitterbug6.31994HD
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
- 2012
For No Good Reason
For No Good Reason72012HD
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly...
- 1981
Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel81981HD
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy...
- 1983
Pirate Tape
Pirate Tape6.91983HD
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the...
- 2009
FLicKeR
FLicKeR6.82009HD
In 1960, Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine, a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations, drugless highs, and revolutionize...
- 1984
Burroughs: The Movie
Burroughs: The Movie7.21984HD
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion...
- 2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'02003HD
A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA...
- 1966
Chappaqua
Chappaqua6.91966HD
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...