Where to Watch The Beat Hotel (2012)

Looking to feast your eyes on 'The Beat Hotel' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Discovering a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Alan Govenar-directed movie via subscription can be a challenge, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The Beat Hotel' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Beat Hotel' right now, here are some finer points about the documentary flick.

Released March 30th, 2012, 'The Beat Hotel' stars Jean-Jacques Lebel, Harold Chapman, Elliot Rudie, Regina Weinreich The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 28 min, and received a user score of 45 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 4 respected users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide."

'The Beat Hotel' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel, and Cineverse .