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• 21st Century Punk Rock (2009, documentary)
• 1991: The Year Punk Broke
  1991: The Year Punk Broke
  1991: The Year Punk Broke is a 1992 documentary directed by Dave Markey featuring American alternative rock band Sonic Youth on tour in Europe in 1991. While Sonic Youth is the focus of the documentary, the film also gives attention to Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Babes in Toyland, Gumball and The Ramones...
  
   (1992, documentary)
• 24 Hour Party People
  24 Hour Party People
  24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom...
  
    (2002)

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• Afro-punk
  Afro-Punk (film)
  Afro-Punk: The Rock is a 66-minute documentary film directed by James Spooner, exploring race identity within the punk scene across America and abroad. The film focuses on the lives of four people dedicated to the punk rock lifestyle, interspersed with interviews from scores of black punk rockers...
  
   (2005, documentary)
• All That I Love (Wszystko, co kocham) (2009) Jacek Borcuch
• American Hardcore
  American Hardcore (film)
  American Hardcore is a documentary directed by Paul Rachman and written by Steven Blush. It is based on the book American Hardcore: A Tribal History also written by Blush. It was released on September 22, 2006 on a limited basis...
  
   (2006, documentary) Paul Rachman
  Paul Rachman
  Paul Rachman is an American film director who directed the highly praised 2006 documentary on punk music American Hardcore which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics. He is also one of the founders of the Slamdance Film Festival...
  
  
• Another State of Mind (1984, documentary)
• American Graffiti

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• The Basketball Diaries
  The Basketball Diaries (film)
  The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, and Mark Wahlberg...
  
  
• The Blank Generation
  The Blank Generation
  The Blank Generation is the earliest published D-I-Y "home movies" of New York punk's birth filmed by Amos Poe and Ivan Kral, legendary 1970s guitarist with Iggy Pop, Blondie and Patti Smith.- Synopsis :...
  
   (1976, documentary) Amos Poe
  Amos Poe
  Amos Poe is a New York City director and screenwriter, described by The New York Times as a "pioneering indie filmmaker."-Career:Amos Poe is one of the first punk filmmakers and his film The Blank Generation —co-directed with Ivan Kral— is one of the earliest punk films...
  
  
• Blank Generation
  Blank Generation (1980 film)
  Blank Generation is a 1980 West German and American co-produced musical film. It was directed and co-written by Ulli Lommel, and it stars Carole Bouquet as the French journalist Nada.-Cast:*Carole Bouquet as Nada*Richard Hell as Billy...
  
   (1980) Ulli Lommel
  Ulli Lommel
  Ulli Lommel , is a German actor and director, noted for his many horror films, and for his career as an actor on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films.-Career:...
  
  
• Border Radio
  Border Radio
  Border Radio is a 1987 independent film directed by Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss, in which two musicians and a roadie who haven't been paid rob money from a club and one flees to Mexico leaving his wife and daughter behind...
  
   (1987)
• Born to Lose (1998) Doug Cawker
• Born to Lose: The Last Rock and Roll Movie (1999, documentary) Lech Kowalski
  Lech Kowalski
  Lech Kowalski is an American film director of Polish origins. His most notable film is thedocumentary, D.O.A. subtitled "A Rite of Passage", which chronicled the burgeoning UK punk scene at the tail-end of the 70's, and included footage of the Sex Pistols' abortive 1978 American Tour...
  
  
• Boston Beatdown: See the World Through Our Eyes - Volume II (2004) Ronin Morris
• Brennende Langeweile (1978) Wolfgang Büld
• Brothers of the Head
  Brothers of the Head
  Brothers of the Head is a 2005 mockumentary featuring the story of Tom and Barry Howe , conjoined twins living in the United Kingdom...
  
   (2005) Brian Aldiss
• Burst City
  Burst City
  is a Japanese science fiction punk rock musical / action film. Released in 1982, the film was directed by Sogo Ishii. Primarily a showcase for both various specific punk rock bands of the time, such as The Roosters, The Rockers, and The Stalin, the film is also purely demonstrative of the culture...
  
   (1982)
• Breaking Glass
  Breaking Glass
  Breaking Glass is a 1980 British film starring Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce. The film was co-produced by Dodi Fayed and written and directed by Brian Gibson. The film was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival....
  
   (1980)
• Bilo jednom...
  Bilo jednom...
  Bilo jednom... is a 2006 rockumentary by Serbian filmmakerJovan Đerić. The film's premiere in a packed Arena cinema, was followed by live sets from punk-rock bands Mitesers and Generacija bez budućnosti. The film is about the punk-rock scene of Serbia's second city, Novi Sad, in the first half of...
  
   (2006, documentary)

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• Kampf der Welten – Chaostage Hannover 1995 (1996)
• Chaostage - We are Punks! (2007) Tarek Ehlail
• The Clash: Westway to the World (2000, documentary)
• Class of 1984
  Class of 1984
  Class of 1984 is a 1982 action-thriller movie about a newly hired music teacher at a troubled inner city school, where students have to pass through a metal detector due to problems with gangs, drugs, and violence. It was directed by Mark L...
  
   (1982)
• Class of Nuke 'Em High
  Class of Nuke 'Em High
  Class of Nuke 'Em High, also known as Atomic High School, is a 1986 film made by cult classic B-movie production group Troma Entertainment. It was directed by Richard W. Haines and Lloyd Kaufman under the pseudonym Samuel Weil...
  
   (1986)
• Control (2007) Anton Corbijn
  Anton Corbijn
  Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...
  
  
• Crash 'n' Burn (1977 short film) Ross McLaren
  Ross McLaren (filmmaker)
  Ross McLaren is a Canadian artist and filmmaker, based in New York City.-Biography:McLaren was born in 1953 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and graduated with honors from Ontario College of Art, where he also did post-graduate work.-Advocacy:...
  
  
• CBGB: Punk from the Bowery

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• The Day the Country Died
  The Day the Country Died
  -Personnel:* Dick Lucas - lead vocals* Bruce Treasure - guitar, backing vocals* Grant Jackson - bass* Trotsky - drums...
  
   (2007, documentary)
• The Decline of Western Civilization
  The Decline of Western Civilization
  The soundtrack was released in December 1980 by Slash Records on LP. In the late 1990s it was released on CD as well. It is currently out of print. Germs singer Darby Crash appears on the soundtrack album cover. He died shortly before the film was released, though the promotional images for the...
  
   (1981, documentary) Penelope Spheeris
  Penelope Spheeris
  Penelope Spheeris is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization...
  
  
• The Decline of Western Civilization III
  The Decline of Western Civilization III
  The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris that chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers. It is the third film of a trilogy by Spheeris depicting life in Los Angeles at various points in time. The first film The Decline of...
  
   (1998, documentary) Penelope Spheeris
• Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984) David Markey
• D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage (1980, documentary) Lech Kowalski
  Lech Kowalski
  Lech Kowalski is an American film director of Polish origins. His most notable film is thedocumentary, D.O.A. subtitled "A Rite of Passage", which chronicled the burgeoning UK punk scene at the tail-end of the 70's, and included footage of the Sex Pistols' abortive 1978 American Tour...
  
  
• Dogs in Space
  Dogs in Space
  Dogs in Space is a 1986 Australian film set in the "little band scene" in Melbourne in 1978. It was directed by Richard Lowenstein and starred Michael Hutchence as Sam, the drug-addled frontman of the fictitious band from which the film takes its name....
  
   (1987) Richard Lowenstein
  Richard Lowenstein
  Richard Lowenstein is an Australian film director. He has written, produced and directed the feature films He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, Dogs In Space, Say a Little Prayer, Strikebound and Ghost Story, as well as numerous ground-breaking and award-winning music videos for bands such as INXS...
  
  
• Dorfpunks (2009) Lars Jessen
• Dudes
  Dudes (film)
  -Plot:Two punks from the big city , traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their friend in this lighthearted road movie...
  
   (1987) Penelope Spheeris
• Detroit Rock City
  Detroit Rock City (film)
  Detroit Rock City is a 1999 film about four teenagers in a Kiss cover band who try to see their idols in Detroit in 1978. Comparable to Rock 'n' Roll High School, Dazed and Confused, The Stöned Age, and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Detroit Rock City tells a coming of age story through a filter of 1970s...
  
  

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• Ebba the Movie
  Ebba the Movie
  Ebba The Movie is a documentary film of Swedish punk band Ebba Grön from 1982, by director and writer Johan Donner.The film includes a lot of live music and interviews with the band’s members...
  
   (1982, documentary)
• The Edge of Quarrel  (2000) David Larson
• End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
  End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
  End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones is a 2003 documentary film about highly influential New York punk rock band the Ramones. The film, produced and directed by Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia, documents the band's history from their formation in the early 1970s and 22 subsequent years of...
  
   (2004, documentary)
• Ex Drummer
  Ex Drummer
  Ex Drummer is a 2007 Flemish film directed by Koen Mortier. It is based on the book by Herman Brusselmans of the same name.- Plot :In Ostend three handicapped musicians are looking for a drummer for their band, consisting entirely of disabled people. They want to perform only one time at a music...
  
   (2007) Koen Mortier
• Engel & Joe
  Engel & Joe
  Engel & Joe is a German film directed by Vanessa Jopp which was released on October 25, 2001.-Main cast:*Robert Stadlober: Engel*Jana Pallaske: Joe*Lena Sabine Berg: Meret, Joe's mother*Mirko Lang: Alex*Stefanie Mühlhan: Spasti*Nadja Bobyleva: Asi...
  
   (2001) Vanessa Jopp

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• The Filth and the Fury
  The Filth and the Fury
  The Filth and the Fury is a 2000 rockumentary film about the Sex Pistols directed by Julien Temple.-About the film:The Filth and the Fury is the second movie Julien Temple made about The Sex Pistols. His first effort was The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, which was released in British cinemas on 15...
  
   (2000, documentary) Julien Temple
  Julien Temple
  Julien Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.-Temple...
  
  
• Fokofpolisiekar: Forgive Them for They Know Not What They Do
  Fokofpolisiekar
  Fokofpolisiekar is an Afrikaans punk rock band from Bellville, near Cape Town, South Africa. Due to the obscenity in the name, they are also commonly known simply as Polisiekar or FPK.-Band history:...
  
   (2009, documentary)
• Führer Ex (2002)
• Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
  Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
  Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is a 2007 documentary film directed by Julien Temple about Joe Strummer, the lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash, that went on to win the British Independent Film Awards as Best British Documentary 2007. The film premiered 20 January 2007 at...
  
   (2007, documentary) Julien Temple
  Julien Temple
  Julien Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.-Temple...
  
  

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• Garage Days
  Garage Days
  Garage Days is a 2002 Australian film directed by Alex Proyas and written by Proyas, Dave Warner and Michael Udesky. The Garage Days soundtrack includes the song "Garage Days" featuring Katie Noonan, David McCormack and Andrew Lancaster.-Plot:...
  
   (2002) Alex Proyas
  Alex Proyas
  Alexander "Alex" Proyas is a Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing such films as The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He is known for employing a stylish photographic techniques in his films, with dark overtones usually in a post-apocalyptic...
  
  
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is a mockumentary film directed by Julien Temple and produced by Don Boyd and Jeremy Thomas about the British punk rock band Sex Pistols....
  
   (1980) Julien Temple
  Julien Temple
  Julien Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.-Temple...
  
  
• Gleaming the Cube
  Gleaming the Cube
  Gleaming the Cube is an American movie released in 1989. It featured Christian Slater as Brian Kelly, a 16-year-old skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother.The Skating Technical Advisor for the film was original Z-Boy, Stacy Peralta...
  
    (1989)
• Rise Against
  Rise Against
  Rise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. The band currently consists of Tim McIlrath , Zach Blair , Joe Principe and Brandon Barnes .Rise Against spent its first five years signed to the independent record label Fat Wreck Chords, on which it...
  
  : Generation Lost
  Generation Lost
  Generation Lost is a DVD documentary by the punk rock band Rise Against. It contains a documentary entitled How We Survive, directed by Davy Rothbart, and the songs "Injection", "Like the Angel", "Black Masks & Gasoline", and "Paper Wings" performed live at a show at The Troubadour in Los Angeles...
  
   (2006, documentary)
• Glory Daze
  Glory Daze
  Glory Daze is an independent film starring Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, French Stewart and Alyssa Milano. It had a limited release in 1996.- Plot :...
  
   (1996) (Ben Affleck)

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• Hard Core Logo
  Hard Core Logo
  Hard Core Logo is a 1996 Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner. Director Bruce McDonald illustrates the self-destruction of punk rock...
  
   (1996) Bruce McDonald
• Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
  Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies
  Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies is a 1994 documentary directed by Todd Phillips about the life of GG Allin, a punk rock musician who died from a heroin overdose in 1993...
  
   (1994, documentary) Todd Phillips
  Todd Phillips
  Todd Phillips is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for directing the comedy films Road Trip, Old School, The Hangover, and Due Date.-Early life:...
  
  
• The History of Rock 'N' Roll Vol. 9 - Punk (1995)
• POP ODYSSEE 2 - House of the Rising Punk (1998, documentary) Christoph Dreher
• Hype!
  Hype!
  Hype! is a documentary directed by Doug Pray about the popularity of grunge rock in the early to mid-1990s United States. It incorporates interviews and rare concert footage to trace the steps of grunge, from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements, to its explosion as a pop culture...
  
   (1996, documentary) Doug Pray
  Doug Pray
  Doug Pray is an American documentary film director, cinematographer, and editor who often explores unique subcultures in his films. His work includes Surfwise a portrait of the nomadic, 11-member Doc Paskowitz family ; Big Rig , a documentary about truck drivers; Infamy , a documentary about...
  
  

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• Jericho's Echo - Punk Rock in the Holy Land (2005, documentary) Liz Nord
• Jubilee
  Jubilee (1977 film)
  Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman. It stars Jenny Runacre, Ian Charleson, and a host of punk rockers. The title refers to the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 1977.-Plot:...
  
   (1977) Derek Jarman
  Derek Jarman
  Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.-Life:...
  
  
• Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
  Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
  Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is a 2001 cult film from Odessa Filmworks which deals with Jesus' modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Canada, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo .This film earned an...
  
   (2002) Lee Demarbre
  Lee Demarbre
  Lee Gordon Demarbre is a Canadian cult film maker. As the president and key person in the Ottawa, Ontario based Odessa Filmworks production company, he has led the creation of several internationally-shown films such as Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace and Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.Demarbre...
  
  

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• King of Punk
  King of Punk
  The King of Punk documentary is directed and produced by Kenneth van Schooten and Julie van Schooten.The documentary film includes interviews with members of bands involved in the Punk scene between 1976 and 1982 including Ramones, Adicts, Exploited, Avengers, Dead Boys, UK Subs, Zeros, Wayne...
  
   (2007) Kenneth van Schooten and Julie van Schooten
• Klassenfeind (1983) Peter Stein
• Kurt And Courtney (1998)
• Kurt Cobain - About A Son (2007)

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• The Last Bus Home (1997) Johnny Gogan
• The Last Pogo
  The Last Pogo
  The Last Pogo is a short film made by Colin Brunton in 1978.Shot in Toronto, at the Horseshoe Tavern, The last Pogo concert was billed as "the last punk rock concert" in Toronto -- at least for that original wave of punksters circa 1977/1978...
  
   (1978, documentary) Colin Brunton
  Colin Brunton
  Colin Brunton is a Canadian producer and director. After creating the short films The Last Pogo , A Trip Around Lake Ontario and The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada , Genie Award winner for Best Live Action Short), Brunton produced the feature films Roadkill and Highway 61 with director Bruce...
  
  
• Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
  Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
  Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is a 1981 film about three teenage girls, played by Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Marin Kanter, who start a punk band. Shot in British Columbia, Canada, the film also featured Ray Winstone, Christine Lahti, ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, along with...
  
   (1981)
• La brune et moi (1980)
• Let Them Know - The Story Of Youth Brigade (2009)
• Liquid Sky
  Liquid Sky
  Liquid Sky is an independent American film. It debuted at the Montreal Film festival in August 1982 and was well received at several film festivals thereafter. It was produced with a budget of $500,000. It became the most successful independent film of 1983 grossing $1.7 million dollars in the...
  
   (1982)
• The Little Punker
  The Little Punker
  The Little Punker is a cartoon by director Michael Schaack from 1992.-Voice cast:*Rainer Strecker ... Amadeus*Ilona Schulz ... Pinke*Reinhard Krökel ... Hübi*Gerlach Fiedler ... Schulzeee...
  
    (1992) Michael Schaack
• Loren Cass
  Loren Cass
  Loren Cass is a feature-length motion picture, directed by 21-year-old independent filmmaker Chris Fuller, about adolescents coming to terms with their lives in St. Petersburg, Florida after the 1996 riots there. The film took ten years to complete....
  
   (2006)
• Lovedolls Superstar
  Lovedolls Superstar (film)
  Lovedolls Superstar is a 1986 low budget underground film, shot on super-8 film.It is the direct sequel to 1984's Desperate Teenage Lovedolls. It was made on a budget of approximately $10,000...
  
   (1986) David Markey
• Luster
  Luster (film)
  Luster also known as Muse is a 2002 gay-themed drama film written and directed by Everett Lewis. The film is about a weekend in the lives of a group of friends in the Los Angeles queer punk scene. Lewis sought to "infuse queerness" into the film as much as he could, so he cast a number of...
  
   (2002) Everett Lewis
  Everett Lewis
  Everett Lewis is an American director, screenwriter and producer. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California...
  
  

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• New York Doll
  New York Doll
  New York Doll is a documentary film based on the life of former New York Dolls member Arthur Kane. The film was nominated for both a Satellite Award and a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered in 2005...
  
   (2005, documentary)
• Night of the Demons
• Nikita (1990) Luc Besson
  Luc Besson
  Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company. He has been involved with over 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer.-Early life:...
  
  
• NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell" (2007, TV documentary)

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• Persepolis
  Persepolis (film)
  Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
  
   (2007)
• Population: 1
  Population: 1
  Population: 1 is a 1986 punk rock musical film written and directed by Rene Daalder.The film stars Tomata du Plenty of the Screamers as a defense contractor who somehow becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. In his solitude, he traces the history of U.S...
  
   (1986) Rene Daalder
  Rene Daalder
  Rene Daalder is a Dutch writer and director. He lives in Los Angeles...
  
  
• Punk: Attitude (2005, documentary) Don Letts
  Don Letts
  Don Letts is a British film director and musician. He is credited as the man who through his DJing at clubs like The Roxy brought together punk and reggae music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Punk im Dschungel (2007)
• Punk in Love (2009)
• Punk Lawyer (Advocaat van de Hanen) (1996)
• Punk Love (2006)
• Punk Rock Holocaust
  Punk Rock Holocaust
  Punk Rock Holocaust is a 2004 low-budget slasher film/horror-comedy directed by Doug Sakmann. It is about a serial killer on the loose at the Vans Warped Tour who tries killing off the bands one by one, and features bands such as Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Less Than Jake, The Used, Big D and...
  
   (2003)
• The Punk Rock Movie
  The Punk Rock Movie
  The Punk Rock Movie was assembled from Super 8 camera footage shot by Don Letts, the disc jockey at The Roxy club during the early days of the UK punk rock movement, principally during the 100 days in 1977 in which punk acts were featured at The Roxy club in London.-History:Roxy club disc jockey...
  
   (1978, documentary) Don Letts
  Don Letts
  Don Letts is a British film director and musician. He is credited as the man who through his DJing at clubs like The Roxy brought together punk and reggae music.-Biography:...
  
   (also known as The Punk Rock Movie from England)
• Punk's Not Dead (2007, documentary)

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• Rad
  Rad (film)
  Rad is a film about BMX racing, first released in the USA in 1986. The film was written by Sam Bernard and Geoffrey Edwards and directed by Hal Needham. It stars Bill Allen and Lori Loughlin. Parts of this movie were filmed in Cochrane in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, Colonel Macleod Jr...
  
   (1986) Hal Needham
  Hal Needham
  Hal Needham is an American stuntman and film director.-Early years:Needham was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Edith May and Howard Needham. He was raised in Arkansas and Missouri...
  
  
• Randale und Liebe (1981, documentary) Thomas Schmidt
• Refused Are Fucking Dead
  Refused Are Fucking Dead
  Refused Are Fucking Dead is a 2006 documentary about the punk band Refused and the last year of their career. The film was directed by the band's guitarist, Kristofer Steen...
  
   (2006, documentary)
• Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox
  Alex Cox
  Alexander Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts...
  
  
• The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
• Richy Guitar (1984) Michael Laux
• Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary (2003, documentary)
• Roadkill (1989)
• Rock 'n' Roll High School
  Rock 'n' Roll High School
  Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 musical comedy film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush, and featuring the Ramones.The film starred P. J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, and Clint Howard...
  
   (1979) Allan Arkush
  Allan Arkush
  Allan Arkush is an American cult film and television director and frequent collaborator of Joe Dante....
  
  
• Rough Cut and Ready Dubbed (1982) Don Shaw
• Rude Boy
  Rude Boy (film)
  Rude Boy is a 1980 British film directed by Jack Hazan and David Mingay and filmed in 1978 and early 1979.The film, part fiction, part rockumentary, tells the story of Ray Gange, a Clash fan who leaves his job in a Soho sex shop to become a roadie for the band...
  
   (1980)
• the Runaways
  The Runaways (film)
  The Runaways is a 2010 American biographical film about the 1970s all-girl rock band of the same name. The film was written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, who based the screenplay on the book Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway by the band's original lead vocalist Cherie Currie...
  
   (2010) Floria Sigismondi
  Floria Sigismondi
  Floria Sigismondi is an Italian, naturalised Canadian, photographer and director.Apart from her art exhibitions, she is best known for writing and directing The Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning...
  
  
• Rage - 20 Years of Punk Rock, West Coast Style

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• S.F.W.
  S.F.W.
  S.F.W. is a 1994 film directed by Jefery Levy. It is based on a novel by Andrew Wellman, and stars Stephen Dorff, Jake Busey and Reese Witherspoon, in one of her first lead roles.-Plot:...
  
   (1994)
• She's Real, Worse Than Queer (1997, documentary) Lucy Thane
  Lucy Thane
  Lucy Thane is a documentary filmmaker.One of her most notable works is It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In The UK in which she followed the 1990s riot grrrl band Bikini Kill while they were on tour in the UK with Huggy Bear....
  
  
• Shellshock Rock (1979)
• Shock Treatment
  Shock Treatment
  Shock Treatment is a 1981 musical-black comedy film and a follow-up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While not an outright sequel, the movie does feature several characters from the movie portrayed by different actors and several Rocky Horror actors portraying new characters...
  
   (1980)
• Shooting at the Moon (2003) Jesse Richards
  Jesse Richards
  Jesse Richards is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sid and Nancy
  Sid and Nancy
  Sid and Nancy is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious , bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and his relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen .-Plot:The film opens with several police officers dragging Sid Vicious out of the Hotel...
  
   (1986) Alex Cox
  Alex Cox
  Alexander Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts...
  
   (aka Sid and Nancy: Love Kills)
• SLC Punk!
  SLC Punk!
  # "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" - The Suicide Machines # "Sex and Violence" - The Exploited# "I Love Livin' in the City" - Fear# "1969" - The Stooges# "Too Hot" - The Specials# "Cretin Hop" - Ramones...
  
   (1999)
• Smithereens
  Smithereens (film)
  Smithereens is a 1982 film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Susan Berman, Brad Rinn, and punk rock icon Richard Hell. The film follows a narcissistic young woman from New Jersey who comes to New York to join the punk subculture, only to find that it's gravitated towards Los Angeles; in...
  
   (1982) Susan Seidelman
  Susan Seidelman
  Susan Seidelman is an American director, producer, writer, and actress.-Career:Susan Seidelman belongs to the first wave of female independent film makers in the American cinema of the 1980s. She graduated Abington Senior High School in 1969 , and went on to study fashion and arts at Drexel...
  
  , Richard Hell
  Richard Hell
  Richard Hell is a singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins...
  
  
• Sons Of Norway (Sønner av Norge) (2011) Nikolaj Frobenius
  Nikolaj Frobenius
  Nikolaj Frobenius is a Norwegian novelist and screen writer.Frobenius was born in Oslo, but grew up at Rykkinn. He studied film writing and research at LCP, London. He has written several books and screenplays, including the screenplay for the classic nordic film thriller Insomnia, which was...
  
  , Jens Lien
  Jens Lien
  Jens Lien is a Norwegian film director. He graduated from the London International Film School in 1993. His graduation project was the short film "Montana", that was featured at the short film festival in Grimstad that year. in 1995 he again participated in this festival, with the entry "Mitt...
  
  , John Lydon
  John Lydon
  John Joseph Lydon , also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s...
  
  
• Straight to Hell (1987) Alex Cox
  Alex Cox
  Alexander Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts...
  
  
• Suburbia
  Suburbia (film)
  Suburbia, also known as Rebel Streets and The Wild Side, is a 1984 film written and directed by Penelope Spheeris about suburban punks who run away from home. The kids take up a minimalist, punk lifestyle by squatting in abandoned suburban tract homes...
  
   (1984) Penelope Spheeris
  Penelope Spheeris
  Penelope Spheeris is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She is best known as a documentary film director whose works include the trilogy titled The Decline of Western Civilization...
  
  
• subUrbia
  SubUrbia (film)
  subUrbia is a 1996 comedy-drama film written by Eric Bogosian, based on his play of the same name, and directed by Richard Linklater. It follows the relationships between a few young adults as they spend their time standing on "the corner" outside a local convenience store.Bogosian based the story...
  
   (1996)
• Subway
  Subway (film)
  Subway is a 1985 French film directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert and is part of the Cinema du look movement.-Plot:...
  
   (1985) Luc Besson
  Luc Besson
  Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company. He has been involved with over 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer.-Early life:...
  
  
• Summer of Sam
  Summer of Sam
  Summer of Sam is a 1999 crime-drama based around the Son of Sam serial murders. It was directed and produced by Spike Lee.-Plot:Summer of Sam is the story of a group of people in New York City in the summer of 1977, a time when the headlines were dominated by the Son of Sam serial killer...
  
   (1999) Spike Lee
  Spike Lee
  Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....
  
  
• Surf Nazis Must Die
  Surf Nazis Must Die
  Surf Nazis Must Die is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Peter George and starring Gail Neely, Barry Brenner, and Robert Harden. It was produced by The Institute, a production company formed by Peter George, Craig A...
  
   (1987) Peter George
• Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks

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• Tank Girl
  Tank Girl (film)
  Tank Girl is a 1995 science fiction action film loosely based on the Tank Girl comic book created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. It was directed by Rachel Talalay and stars Lori Petty as Rebecca Buck, aka the eponymous Tank Girl, who had originally appeared in the UK comic magazine...
  
   (1995) Rachel Talalay
  Rachel Talalay
  -Filmography:* Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare * Ghost in the Machine * Tank Girl -Television credits:* Ally McBeal* Boston Public* Cold Case* Crossing Jordan* The Dead Zone* Dice* The Division...
  
  
• Tapeheads
  Tapeheads
  Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman. The film stars John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore, and Junior Walker. The movie was produced by Michael Nesmith, who is seen briefly in the film as a bottled water delivery man.-Plot:...
  
   (1988)
• Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (2009)
• Terminal City Ricochet
  Terminal City Ricochet
  Terminal City Ricochet is a 1990 film by Filipino director Zale Dalen. The name was taken from a hockey team called the Terminal City Ricochets....
  
   (1990)
• Terror Firmer
  Terror Firmer
  Terror Firmer is a 1999 American comedy horror film, directed by Lloyd Kaufman, written by Patrick Cassidy and Douglas Buck, and starring Will Keenan and Alyce LaTourelle. The film was produced by the Troma Entertainment company, known for distributing campy exploitation films...
  
   (1999)
• There Is No Authority But Yourself
  There Is No Authority But Yourself
  There is No Authority But Yourself is a Dutch film directed by Alexander Oey documenting the history of anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archive footage of the band and interviews with former members Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher...
  
   A documentary about the history of Crass
  Crass
  Crass are an English punk rock band that was formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, way of living, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularised the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism...
  
   - (2006) Alexander Oey
  Alexander Oey
  Alexander Oey is a Dutch film director who has directed numerous documentaries for Dutch television, including the controversial Euro-Islam According to Tariq Ramadan and My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans-Joachim Klein , as well as There is No Authority But Yourself, a documentary on the...
  
  
• Thrashin'
  Thrashin'
  Conversely, Brolin had turned down the role of Thom Hansen on 21 Jump Street, which ultimately went to Depp.-Continuing reaction to the film: Sixteen years after initial release, the MTV series Jackass, in a February 2002 episode, played homage to the "jousting scene" with "maces and man-purse" in...
  
   (1986)
• Threat
  Threat (film)
  Threat is an award-winning independent film about a straightedge "hardcore kid" and a hip hop revolutionary whose friendship is doomed by the intolerance of their respective street tribes...
  
   (2006)
• Times Square
  Times Square (film)
  Times Square is a 1980 film starring Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, and Tim Curry. The plot of the film essentially embodies a punk rock ethic - misunderstood youth forming a band and, through music, articulating their frustrations toward adult authority, personified in the film as parents, the...
  
   (1980)
• Tjenare Kungen
  Tjenare kungen
  Tjenare Kungen is a Swedish film drama set in the 1980s, and released in 2005.-Cast:* Josefin Neldén - Abra* Cecilia Wallin - Millan* Joel Kinnaman - Dickan* Malin Larsson - Isa...
  
   (2005)
• Todd P Goes to Austin (2010, documentary)
• Tromeo and Juliet
  Tromeo and Juliet
  Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment...
  
   (1996) A punk version of the Shakespeare classic, co-written by James Gunn
• THUNDERS, JOHNNY - DEAD OR ALIVE
• Taxi Driver
  Taxi Driver
  Taxi Driver is a 1976 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd. The film was nominated for four Academy...
  
  
• The Adicts: Joker in the Pack
• The Clash - Westway to the World
• The Cramps - Live at Napa State Mental Hospital
• The Decline of Western Civilization
  The Decline of Western Civilization
  The soundtrack was released in December 1980 by Slash Records on LP. In the late 1990s it was released on CD as well. It is currently out of print. Germs singer Darby Crash appears on the soundtrack album cover. He died shortly before the film was released, though the promotional images for the...
  
  
• The Filth and the Fury - A Sex Pistols Film
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is a mockumentary film directed by Julien Temple and produced by Don Boyd and Jeremy Thomas about the British punk rock band Sex Pistols....
  
  

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• Urgh! A Music War
  Urgh! A Music War
  Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, New Wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. Among the artists featured in the movie are Magazine, The Go-Go's, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, XTC, Devo, The Cramps, Oingo Boingo, Dead...
  
   (1981, documentary)
• Urban Struggle
  Urban Struggle
  Urban Struggle is a rare film made in 1981 that documents the hardcore punk scene at the Cuckoo's Nest nightclub. The black-and-white film features performances by TSOL, Circle Jerks and Black Flag, and shows early slam dancing. It is not available on home video format, but portions of the film...
  
   (documentary)
• UK/DK (documentary)

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• Valley Girl
  Valley Girl (film)
  Valley Girl is a 1983 romantic comedy film, starring Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye, and Joyce Heiser. The film was the directorial debut of Martha Coolidge, and was the first film in which Nicolas Coppola was billed as Nicolas Cage.The American release of Valley Girl...
  
   (1983)
• Vennaskond. Millennium (1998) Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky , also known as Tony Blackplait, is an Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, and individualist anarchist.-Early life:...
  
  
• Verlierer (1986) Bernd Schadewald
• Viva Joe Strummer - The Clash And Beyond (2005)

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• What to Do in Case of Fire? (2001) Gregor Schnitzler
• Wassup Rockers
  Wassup Rockers
  -Plot:Wassup Rockers is about a group of Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South Central Los Angeles who, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock,and ride skateboards. Avoiding the violence of...
  
   (2005) Larry Clark
  Larry Clark
  Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa...
  
  
• We Jam Econo
  We Jam Econo
  We Jam Econo - The Story of the Minutemen, is a full-length documentary about the influential 1980s punk rock band Minutemen, created by director Tim Irwin and producer Keith Schieron in association with Rocket Fuel Films...
  
   (2005, documentary)
• We're Outta Here! (1997)
• What About Me (1993) Rachel Amodeo
• What We Do Is Secret
  What We Do Is Secret (film)
  What We Do Is Secret is a 2008 American biographical film about Darby Crash, singer of the late-1970s Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs. Rodger Grossman directed the film and wrote the screenplay, based on a story he had written with Michelle Baer Ghaffari, a friend of Crash's and co-producer of...
  
   (2008) Rodger Grossman
• Who Killed Nancy?
  Who Killed Nancy?
  Who Killed Nancy? is a British documentary film directed by Alan G. Parker with interviews including Glen Matlock, Don Letts, Alan Jones, Peter Kodick, Steve 'Roadent' Connolly, John 'Boogie' Tiberi, Simone Stenfors, Alan Parker, Steve Walsh, Steve Dior, George X, John Holmstrom, Eileen Polk and...
  
   (2009)
• Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001) Connie Walther
• Wild Zero
  Wild Zero
  Wild Zero is a 2000 Japanese "Jet rock 'n' roll" zombie horror comedy cult classic directed by Tetsuro Takeuchi, and starring the Japanese garage punk band Guitar Wolf...
  
  (2000)