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Apr 25, 2022 · The 20 Best Punk Movies. A guide that runs the gamut from essential historical documents to thrilling fables of disobedience. By Simon Reynolds. April 25, 2022. Graphic by Callum Abbott, photos...
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- The Decline of Western Civilization. Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, John Doe. 171 votes. Released: 1981. The Decline of Western Civilization is an American documentary film filmed through 1979 and 1980.
- Repo Man. Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter. 187 votes. Released: 1984. After being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton).
- Suburbia. Flea, Chris Pedersen, Derek O'Brien. 116 votes. 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.
- SLC Punk! Jason Segel, Matthew Lillard, Devon Sawa. 210 votes. is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James Merendino. The film is about the young punk rock fan Steven "Stevo" Levy, a college graduate living in Salt Lake City.
Featuring interviews, performances, and behind-the-scenes journeys with the bands, labels, fans, and press who keep punk alive, Punk's Not Dead dares to juxtapose pop-punk's music and lifestyle against the roots in the 70s and 80s, resulting in unexpected revelations.
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- 24 Hour Party People. No other city in Britain has had as influential an effect on music as Manchester, England which produced standout bands like New Order, Happy Mondays, and A Certain Ratio during its fervent '80s era.
- The Decline of Western Civilization. Penelope Spheeris, as talented a documentarian as a narrative filmmaker, broke ground with her documentary trilogy The Decline of Western Civilization, with a first installment about Los Angeles Punk bands like The Germs, Black Flag and X, released in 1980.
- Sid and Nancy. Another Alex Cox film, another authentic look at Punk Rock, this time through the prism of Punk's heroin-injected Romeo and Juliette, Sid and Nancy.
- Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. Another incredible Julien Temple documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, chronicles the singer's rise a member of The Clash, considered by many British music critics to be just as important and influential an English band as The Beatles and The Kinks, and traces Strummer's eclectic international origins as the son of a diplomat.
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- ‘SLC Punk’ (1998) Ok, Matthew Lillard's Stevo isn't exactly the world's most convincing punk. But in terms of demonstrating how the lifestyle could save you from dying of boredom as a your square suburbanite?
- ‘Breaking Glass’ (1980) Sounding like a songbird and looking like a cross between Siouxsie Sioux and Klaus Nomi, Hazel O'Connor's angry young musician is destined to be a star — and a martyr in the name of those who give in the corrupting forces of capitalism known as "the music industry."
- ‘Valley Girl’ (1983) Basing a teen film on Romeo and Juliet? It'd had been done. Replacing a Montague and a Capulet with a San Fernando Valley shopping-mall habitue (Deborah Foreman) and a sensitive Hollywood punk (Nicolas Cage)?
- ‘We Are the Best!’ (2013) Punk's spirit of indiscriminate, what-you-got rebellion has rarely been portrayed as adorably as in Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's heartfelt, joyous look at three Stockholm preteens in the early 1980s.
Apr 12, 2021 · There have been many great movies made about or set in the punk scene over the years. IMDb ranks the 10 best here, sure to be loved by any punk fan.
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Sep 3, 2023 · Take a look at these films for a better, very entertaining (and often disturbing) glimpse at punk rock and the punk lifestyle of anarchy, squatting, rebellion, and heavy drinking and drug use.
