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The Punk and the Princess
1999
- R1999 · Romance · 1h 36m
Apr 25, 2022 · By Simon Reynolds. April 25, 2022. Graphic by Callum Abbott, photos courtesy Everett Collection. From left: Sid and Nancy, We Are the Best!, and Times Square. In the ongoing explosion of rock...
- Simon Reynolds
- SS of 1984 - 6.6
- IES and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains - 6.8
- O Man - 6.9
- Urbia - 7.0
- En Room - 7.0
- And Nancy - 7.0
- Are The Best! - 7.2
- Urn of The Living Dead - 7.3
- Punk - 7.5
- S Is England - 7.7
A new teacher clashes with a gang of punks in this 1982 cult movie from Mark Lester. In this troubled high school, teachers pack guns, and drugs and violence run rampant. New music teacher Andrew must learn to navigate this new school with caution, as it seems every student has it out for each other, even the teachers. But when this raving gang of ...
Living a normal, boring life in a dull town, Corinne finds excitement and meaning after seeing a punk band for the first time, inspiring her to form her own all-female punk band and engrossing herself in punk culture. But after growing in popularity and landing a touring gig, Corinne starts to butt heads with her bandmates and alienates her friends...
This cult classic from Alex Cox follows Otto, played by Emilio Estevez, a punk-rocker-turned-repossession-man who starts to seek out an expensive car with supernatural treasure locked away in the trunk. Teaming up with Leila, they search out this magical car and the odd riches hidden away inside it. It's weird, charming, often goofy, and an overall...
Following a similar theme that is part of many punk movies, an outcast whose parents are abusive and don't understand him, Evan runs away from home and finds solace in a group of like-minded punks. After revealing the backstories of some of the runaways, the film goes on to see them squatting in abandoned warehouses, going to punk shows, and wreaki...
Patrick Stewart as a punk gang leader? It sounds crazy but it's true. This gruesome and engaging movie follows a punk band that ends up playing a show in the middle of nowhere, and after witnessing a brutal crime, are hunted by the neo-Nazi punks that run the place. RELATED: Patrick Stewart's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes With wonder...
Another punk film from director Alex Cox, who had a run of great movies in the 1980s, Sid and Nancy is a biopic about the life of Sid Vicious, the bassist for the famous punk band The Sex Pistols, and his turbulent relationship with his then-girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Their drug-fueled relationship became detrimental to both their lives and Sid's m...
The only foreign-language film on this list, We Are The Best! is a Swedish drama that follows a group of young girls as they explore punk culture and music, as well as their personal lives and relationships with friends and family. After befriending a shy and Christian girl, Hedvig, Bobo and Clara invite her to join their new punk band. But as with...
This 1985 zombie comedy movie follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, such as Night of the Living Dead andDawn of the Dead, where a unique group of individuals, in this case, a group of punks, a mortician, and warehouse workers, all come together to fight and survive a horde of the undead. RELATED: 10 Best Zombie Comedies (According To Rotten...
As thought-provoking as it is funny, this comedy-drama from James Merendino follows two punks, Stevo and Heroin Bob, as they traverse the conservative landscape of Salt Lake City, searching for meaning and fulfillment in their lives. Stevo has nice and wealthy parents who aren't happy that their son has decided to be a punk instead of going to coll...
A wonderful coming of age story set in 1980s England, This Is England reveals the life of young Shaun, who finds friends and meaning in a group of skinhead punks after he lost his father in the Falklands War. After befriending older skinheads, he begins to get wrapped up in their culture and way of life, dissenting from his parents and local norms,...
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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.
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May 28, 2024 · The best punk movies capture this ethos perfectly, showing us stories of outsiders breaking free from oppressive systems and constructing their own identities in spite of them. From classic cult films like The Decline Of Western Civilization or Suburbia to modern masterpieces such as American Hardcore , there's no shortage of incredible punk ...
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155 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Sid and Nancy. 1986 1h 52m R. 7.0 (35K) Rate. 76 Metascore. The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed. Director Alex Cox Stars Gary Oldman Chloe Webb David Hayman. A movie not really about John Ritchie and Nancy Spungen.
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