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Top 5 favorite PUNK ROCK movies

Myke Spezzan​o

over 4 years ago

i have many but i’d have to say~~

Ladies & Gentleman The Fabulous Stains
Jubilee
Suburbia (1984)
What We Do Is Secret
Dudes

Steve Oerkfit​z

over 4 years ago

Hated Ladies & Gentleman The Fabulous Stains except for Ray Winstones performance. Just silly.

I prefer(not including any documentaries)
Sid and Nancy
Smithereens
Repo Man

Ronald

over 4 years ago

I like 24 hour party people. I don’t know of anything else.

Elektra

over 4 years ago

This really is an anemic subgenere, but I’d say
24 Hour Party People
and
Repo Man would top my list.
Maybe an honorable mention for Julian Temple’s Great Rock & Roll Swindle and its bookend, the Filth & The Fury

Ron B

over 4 years ago

Would “Control” count as a punk rock movie (or would you just call that a biopic?). If so, I’d include that.

Alex Urie

over 4 years ago

Its all about Burst City.

Steve Oerkfit​z

over 4 years ago

I wouldn’t really consider 24 Hour Party People and Control punk. Joy Division was more of post punk band not really punk.

Shotzi

over 4 years ago

There haven’t been five good non-documentary punk rock movies. That said:

Over the Edge
The Decline of Western Civilization
The Year Punk Broke
Hated
Rock ’n Roll High School (stupid, but fun)
End of the Century

I haven’t seen We Jam Econo yet. I would imagine it’s pretty good.

Kurt Walker

-moderator-
over 4 years ago

Kill Yr Idols (No-Wave technically, but it feels like ‘punk filmmaking’ if it ever existed)

Kevin Salyers

over 4 years ago

Electric Dragon 80,000 V

Jake Howell

over 4 years ago

Control
24 Hour Party People

This is a really specific subgenre.

Steve Oerkfit​z

over 4 years ago

Jake-Great movies but not really punk-Joy Division was a post punk band but not really punk.

Pablo Udenio

over 4 years ago

Jubilee (the best, the one, la créme de la créme of punk cinema, period)
Radio On (1980 – Chris Petit -Best “New Wave” film ever…..)
Meantime (1984 – Mike Leigh)
A Clockwork Orange
Syd & Nancy
24 hour party people (somehow)
Taxi Driver (somehow)
Quadrophenia (somehow)
The Smithereens (somehow)
After Hours (somehow)
The Decline of Western Civilization
Etc, etc, etc…

Mister Dob

over 4 years ago

Return of the Living Dead

cole roulain

over 4 years ago

“we jam econo” is every bit as inspiring as the minutemen were back in the day. watt just being watt is worth the price of admission.

monster​girly

over 4 years ago

Dogs in Space (by far)
Urgh! A Music War
The Great Rock n Roll Swindle
Rock n Roll High School
Sid & Nancy

kevin b

over 4 years ago

davecit​o !

over 4 years ago

^
What he said. The dramatic bits aren’t so special, but you get The Clash live, lots, and The Clash were one of the finest bands ever.

Not a punk movie, but an indie one, and a great one of those: Athens Georgia: Inside Out – very very good. You’ve got footage of The B52s when they were actually wild as hell, Pylon (one of the other finest bands ever), The Bar-B-Q Killers (deranged; a future Jesus Lizard was involved), The Method Actors, a raft of other D.I.Y.’ers, future rock stars (R.E.M.), and the late great Howard Finster to top it all off.

Justin Biberkopf

over 4 years ago

X- the Unheard Music
The Decline of Western Civilization
Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris)

over 4 years ago

There’s no way in the world I could ever convince myself to go see ‘What we do is secret’.

‘American hardcore’, book sucks, film is fantastic. Bummer it skips alot of bands, but the footage alone is worth the buy.

Girl bites pen

over 4 years ago

The Future is Unwritten is a really great doc. Has anyone seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch? I’ve had that recommended to me.

over 4 years ago

‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ is terrible/great, haha. ’’I’m like the Berlin wall, youu can’t tear me down!’’

Mister Dob

over 4 years ago

Yep, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is indeed terrible/great.

Mark Thimija​n

over 4 years ago

Some say the Driller Killer others say Liquid Sky I say The Filth and the Fury.

Jennife​r Christe​nsen

over 4 years ago

Brothers of the Head? I didn’t see the whole thing but it seemed to be at least partially about punk.

Shotzi

over 4 years ago

American Hardcore, book AND movie, both suck. Fun footage, sure, but they don’t even come close to covering the bulk of hardcore, and the parts they ignored they just pretend didn’t exist.

Buffalo

over 4 years ago

1) Trainspotting
2) 24 Hours Party People
3) Syd And Nancy
4) S.L.C Punk
5) Blade Runner ( It’s a siberpunk movie,…so, I think is correct in taht topic)

Chinistroisecerstuder

over 4 years ago

1) S.LC. Punk
2) 24 Hour Party People
3) Syd and Nancy
4) Blade Runner (siberpunk movie)
5) Quadrophenia

Justin Biberkopf

over 4 years ago

JAILHOUSE ROCK!!!!!!!! lol

Jim W

over 4 years ago

Control!