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Allen Ginsberg

Actor · 109 credits · 20 in highly-rated films

Best known for No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

Frequent collaborators: William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Joan Baez

Movies (108 total, ranked by score)

  1. It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

    1987 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    31

  2. The Beat Hotel

    2012 · ★ 4.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    32

  3. Wholly Communion

    1965 · ★ 6.1 (9 votes)

    33

  4. We Can't Go Home Again

    1973 · ★ 6.1 (23 votes)

    Drama

    34

  5. Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

    1997 · ★ 5.2 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    35

  6. The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

    2007

    Documentary, Music

    36

  7. Heavy Petting

    1989 · ★ 5.6 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    37

  8. Autumn Ritual

    1986 · ★ 8.8 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    38

  9. All Star Video

    1985 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Animation, Documentary, Music

    39

  10. A Poet from the Lower East Side

    1997 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    40

  11. Suite 212

    1974

    41

  12. Johnny Minotaur

    1971 · ★ 5.2 (4 votes)

    Drama

    42

  13. This Song for Jack

    1983 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    43

  14. La marche gaie

    1980 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    44

  15. No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

    1997 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    45

  16. Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC

    2026

    Music, Documentary

    46

  17. Thot-Fal'N

    1978 · ★ 5.7 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    47

  18. Pull My Daisy

    1959 · ★ 6.0 (27 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    48

  19. Lake Placid '80

    1980 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    49

  20. Norman Mailer: The American

    2012 · ★ 7.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    50

  21. Hare Krishna

    1967 · ★ 4.9 (12 votes)

    51

  22. Greetings from Washington, D.C.

    1981 · ★ 9.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    52

  23. Beat Generation

    2014 · ★ 9.2 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    53

  24. Yippie

    1968 · ★ 5.1 (11 votes)

    Comedy, Documentary

    54

  25. Global Groove

    1973 · ★ 7.7 (3 votes)

    Music, TV Movie

    55

  26. Galaxie

    1966 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    56

  27. Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

    2008 · ★ 6.1 (19 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    57

  28. U2: A Year in Pop

    1997

    Documentary, Music

    58

  29. Road Scholar

    1993 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    59

  30. Growing Up in America

    1989 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    60

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Sep 3, 2026.