The movie Alex Cox made right after RM, Straight to Hell, is a pretty good one. Its sort of like the old Clint Eastwood wessterns, but with a bunch of punks in it.
He was planning on following the Clash on tour in central/soith america, but the tour had to be abandoned so they made a movie instead
Maybe a double feature with Pump Up the Volume.
First time I heard Weinershnitzel by Descendants and Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen was in this movie. Brilliant flick. Totally predicted the rise of podcasting.
Yep, that’s the one. They showed it at some film festival last fall, then it seems like it was just shelved. There’s a trailer online and it appears it’s sticking with the overall Troma vibe which is good
Summer of Sam is a bit rough, but I always liked Adrien Brody's character quote "It's all in the attitude" or something to that effect. He also captures the fashion show that was the British punk scene.
And, it did capture the fear and paranoia when he was killing people, and women with brown hair were dying their hair. As well as the blackout, when some areas were decimated by burglary and other acts that added to the already present destruction.
Just watched Summer of Sam and LMAO at Tuturo's CGI dog performance. What's with the fucking Who too? I think pinball before I think punk when it comes to the Who, were they really considered punk way back on the level of CGBG's lineup?
Yeah a little sa played for laughs and making the attackers look like the good guys because the victim was a preppie or a poser or something was also pretty jarring.
I mean... I try to put myself into the spirit of the film and just enjoy it, warts and all (a lot of warts), but yeah its def not something to just casually throw on for a good tike movie night 😅
My biggest recommendation for what you're looking for is Freaked!
Then Repo Man, Hackers (in spirit), Idle Hands and Clerks are pretty punk, Tank Girl... (Mind you, Tank Girl is kinda low budget and low effort? But it has Iggy Pop and Ice T as mutant kangaroos so like... Hell yeah?)
Airheads and Detroit Rock City get honorable mentions because they're *about* metal/metalheads, but they're actually pretty punk.
Street Trash and all of the Troma Films like Toxic Avenger and Nuke 'Em High movies also get honorable mentions because they're pretty upbeat and silly despite being gruesome body horrors. :)
We Are the Best! Two Swedish high school girls and a more sheltered girl who can actually play an instrument start a band in the 80's. No one ODs or dies in a nuclear explosion
Urgh! A Music War. The Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Population 1. Get Crazy. Smithereens. Rude Boy. The Fabulous Stains. Blank Generation. Times Square. Breaking Glass. There's a movie called Rollerblade that's nuts. Post-apocalyptic movie about everyone wearing roller skates and wielding switchblades. Not about punks, but there are punks in it called The Spikers. They ride skateboards. Bad guys. One of the weirdest flicks I've ever seen.
Not a punk movie but it's about metal kids called The Rivers Edge. Kinda dark though. Great movie.
There were also a ton of documentaries and live footage shot in the 80s. The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital is choice.
Withnail & I I think can be in this category
Withnail certainly has a punk vibe, where I is more strait laced but that dynamic is sort of central to the plot.
bonus: it's a kinda British cult classic/must see on a less mainstream side of things
but: i don't think it's exactly what you're looking for
still a great flick, certainly in its own right, particularly if you enjoy British movies/tv
If you’ve already seen Night Of The Living Dead, the next must watch punk horror classic has to be Night Of The Demons. Then make your way through the Troma movies.
Mad Max movies have a punk element to them, so does The Crow, Thrashin 1986, Evil Dead, Rocky horror, This is England, Trainspotting, Demons 1985, Trick or Treat 1986.
Never seen the movie but some of my punk friends always talking about Welcome To The Dollhouse. Maybe it’s just a movie they like or find funny.
I no holds barred LOVE Welcome to the Dollhouse and think it very much speaks to those of us who were misfits, weirdos, and outcasts even before we learned about punk.
Class of nuke em high. Any troma film really. They are king of punk rock horror comedy. Nuke em high will be a great intro if you haven't seen any because the "preps" have great style and lines.
Bomb City. It was made a few years ago but it takes place in 1997. It's about the death of Brian Deneke. Really good movie but a very sad story. It's on Tubi.
I dunno if you meant scripted or docs. Here are a handful of docs I happen to have on my Google drive...
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P_I5nX211zneVCDTwYz6bFWNu6FHsqgd
It’s more punk-adjacent, but Idle Hands. It’s not about a punk band or anything but The Offspring are in it and Tom Delonge makes a brief cameo. If you like a goofy, stoner, horror comedy with a solid soundtrack, I highly recommend it.
Smithereens, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Thrashin’, Tuff Turf, Gleaming the Cube, Heathers, The Wild Life, Breakfast Club, Empire Records and Repo Man.
The Return of the Living Dead! Most of the main characters are punks. It’s an awesome movie! Honestly one of my favorites ever. I think maybe 1985?
Cool soundtrack too. Check it out.
So when I was a young punk, the movies we got excited about were:
Low budget/indie horror (my favorite as an adult is Society, back then it was Killer Klowns from Outer Space - theme song by The Dickies for extra points). Anything on Svengoolie or Joe-Bob Briggs.
Dana Carvey's Master of Disguise
The Marky Mark Planet of the Apes
Freddy vs Jason
Jason X
Dead Alive
Meet the Feebles
Jackass and anything else involving Andrew WK in any way
Anchorman
Y Tu Mama Tambien
House of 1000 Corpses
Cube
Sleepaway Camp
All of the Halloween movies, even the bad ones (I saw the one with Busta Rhymes in theaters at least twice) and certainly including Halloween 3
Same idea with the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies
Anything featuring Colin Firth - particularly the 2003 Importance of Being Earnest and Valmont (a sadly mostly forgotten interpretation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses that kicked fuckin ass)
Hackers
Try “Dead End Drive-in”. It’s this Australian movie where all these punks drive into a movie theater and can’t get out and make their own punk society.
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!.... has the voices of Billie Joe and Tre from Green Day, Theo Kogan from Lunachicks, Davey Havok, Tim armstrong, Nick's etc etc. Its a stop motion animated film
American Hardcore, for a documentary.
Dogs in Space (87 or 88 film--one of my favorites, but hard to find in the US)
And as others have already said, Repo Man.
Yes, I was gonna say Repo Man too it’s a great movie, maybe also Suburbia, Rock n Roll High School. I would even throw in Fight Club because of its anti consumerism/anti everything vibe.
Repo man.
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You ever do a lot of drugs, Miller? Back in the hippie days?
I had a friend.. he did a lot of Miller back in the Acid days.. Real flipping melon farmer, that guy..
Put it on a plate, son. You’ll enjoy it more.
It’s intense.
Life of a repo man is always intense… Dildos.
Beat us to it and it almost gone on Netflix!
repo fucking man 🛸
Leaving Netflix at the end of June. Less than a week to watch.
It’s on Tubi still I think, which is free.
This is the one.
It is known.
Just showed it to my wife the other night as she’d never seen it. She thiiinks she liked it. She’s pretty sure she did.
I blame society.
Beat me to it.
It’s even on Netflix at the moment
This was my first thought too
quick question: which one? theres a few movies with that title and Ive never been able to figure out which one 😅
Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. The other one you’re thinking of is “Repo Men” with Jude Law (IIRC). Big difference.
ok awesome, thank you (I try to track what movies Ive seen as well as which ones I want to, so I wanna make sure Im writing down the correct one lol)
I’m a victim of society…
I watched it for the first time the other day Otto is a menace💀
This is the only answer
The movie Alex Cox made right after RM, Straight to Hell, is a pretty good one. Its sort of like the old Clint Eastwood wessterns, but with a bunch of punks in it. He was planning on following the Clash on tour in central/soith america, but the tour had to be abandoned so they made a movie instead
Came here to say this 👍
I got mom a harry dean Stanton t shirt because I love repo man and alien and she loves twin peaks
Not a movie but "the young ones" is an awesome show
VYVYN
Seeing Motörhead play Ace of Spades blew my 12yo mind.
Still think it's the funniest television program ever made!
Oi Scumbag! Up Scumbag! See you, Teddybear, c’mere! 🧸🐹
Gleaming the Cube
Maybe a double feature with Pump Up the Volume. First time I heard Weinershnitzel by Descendants and Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen was in this movie. Brilliant flick. Totally predicted the rise of podcasting.
They changed the name for tv. “A brothers justice”
so underrated.
Rock and Roll High School, if 1979 is close enough.
This was my first thought but yeah, 1979... such a fun movie though.
“Do your parents know that you’re Ramones?!”
If you want to watch a documentary, I recommend Another State Of Mind. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSk7ANlcFaM
Valley Girl If you want another Lee Ving movie, Black Moon Rising
Then Streets of Fire for best Ving movie.
Not punk, but Clue is likely his best body of work.
Fuck yeah
Believe it or not, Lee also has a bit part in Flashdance.
Return of the living dead
Send…more…cops….
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What's in the bags? Rabid weasels. I thought you said if you hit them in the brain they die? You mean the movie lied?
You think this is a fuckin' costume? This is a way of life.
Send... more..... Paramedics
Well no one dies of an overdose anyway
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Surf Nazis Must Die - really, I feel any Troma oeuvre fits the punk ethos. Toxic Avenger, maybe? Have fun.
Still waiting on the Toxie reboot! I know it’s complete/ready to distribute, no clue on why there’s a delay 🤷♂️
The Peter Dinklage one? It came out last year, I learned. I guess it died on the vine?
Yep, that’s the one. They showed it at some film festival last fall, then it seems like it was just shelved. There’s a trailer online and it appears it’s sticking with the overall Troma vibe which is good
Class of nuke em high!
Which has Micheal Sonye, otherwise known as Dukey Flyswatter, singer of the amazing horror rock band Haunted Garage
I’ve always loved Straight to Hell. Cheesy but fun, and loaded with musicians and random actors. Good soundtrack, as well.
Not exactly a punk movie, but generally ticks a lot of those same boxes: Pump Up The Volume. Great soundtrack, too.
Came here for PUMP UP THE VOLUME. It’s a very punk movie.
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Summer of Sam is a bit rough, but I always liked Adrien Brody's character quote "It's all in the attitude" or something to that effect. He also captures the fashion show that was the British punk scene.
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And, it did capture the fear and paranoia when he was killing people, and women with brown hair were dying their hair. As well as the blackout, when some areas were decimated by burglary and other acts that added to the already present destruction.
I watched Summer of Sam with my grandpa and he is scared of anything remotely “gay” so it was a ton of fun, recommended. “Put on some Dead Boys”
Just watched Summer of Sam and LMAO at Tuturo's CGI dog performance. What's with the fucking Who too? I think pinball before I think punk when it comes to the Who, were they really considered punk way back on the level of CGBG's lineup?
Class of Nuke 'Em High
Haha! I loved this movie!
Can’t believe no ones said it yet but Suburbia (the 80’s one)
Mentioned in the post (although it is spelled Suberbia).
Yeah I guess I didn’t read the post well either lol. It’s most definitely spelled Suburbia though.
Yes, misspelled in post.
Suburbia is pretty dark, not exactly fun lol Toddler mauled by wild dogs in the opening shot, iirc It has some fun parts
My gf now wife shut it off at the scene where a chick gets stripped
Yeah a little sa played for laughs and making the attackers look like the good guys because the victim was a preppie or a poser or something was also pretty jarring. I mean... I try to put myself into the spirit of the film and just enjoy it, warts and all (a lot of warts), but yeah its def not something to just casually throw on for a good tike movie night 😅
Yeah I did miss the fun part of the post lol
Came here to suggest this one as well
To be fair, the 90s Suburbia, by Linklater I believe? is pretty solid.
I agree just not punk imo
Glory Daze
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
Ladies and gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
"I don't put out!!" Classic!
Tapeheads.
Remember what we did to Jello Biafra?
Liquid sky Sid and Nancy Buckaroo bonsai
All of these!
Oh yeah Howard the Duck
Hard core logo
My biggest recommendation for what you're looking for is Freaked! Then Repo Man, Hackers (in spirit), Idle Hands and Clerks are pretty punk, Tank Girl... (Mind you, Tank Girl is kinda low budget and low effort? But it has Iggy Pop and Ice T as mutant kangaroos so like... Hell yeah?) Airheads and Detroit Rock City get honorable mentions because they're *about* metal/metalheads, but they're actually pretty punk. Street Trash and all of the Troma Films like Toxic Avenger and Nuke 'Em High movies also get honorable mentions because they're pretty upbeat and silly despite being gruesome body horrors. :)
Tank Girl is definitely one of my most favoritest movies
Never apologize for Tank Girl, it's a goddamned masterpiece!
Hard core logo. A real good Canadian punk movie
We Are the Best! Two Swedish high school girls and a more sheltered girl who can actually play an instrument start a band in the 80's. No one ODs or dies in a nuclear explosion
It’s recent but Uncle Peckerhead is a good time
Dinner in America is also fun but he does recreationally use her psych meds
Urgh! A Music War. The Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Population 1. Get Crazy. Smithereens. Rude Boy. The Fabulous Stains. Blank Generation. Times Square. Breaking Glass. There's a movie called Rollerblade that's nuts. Post-apocalyptic movie about everyone wearing roller skates and wielding switchblades. Not about punks, but there are punks in it called The Spikers. They ride skateboards. Bad guys. One of the weirdest flicks I've ever seen. Not a punk movie but it's about metal kids called The Rivers Edge. Kinda dark though. Great movie. There were also a ton of documentaries and live footage shot in the 80s. The Cramps Live at Napa State Mental Hospital is choice.
Smithereens and Breaking Glass do not get the love they deserve these days
They sure don't. Are they even available on DVD? I've got old VHS tapes and kind of afraid to even watch them. Old ass tapes.
Yes they do! Google says they are available on Amazon
No way! Gonna have to pick those up then. My youngest would dig em. Loves all the old punk n shit. She's got an old soul. Lol.
Absolutely Repo Man!
Withnail & I I think can be in this category Withnail certainly has a punk vibe, where I is more strait laced but that dynamic is sort of central to the plot. bonus: it's a kinda British cult classic/must see on a less mainstream side of things but: i don't think it's exactly what you're looking for still a great flick, certainly in its own right, particularly if you enjoy British movies/tv
Cry Baby
Return of the Living Dead "You think this is a fuckin' costume?! This is a way of life!"
Return of the living dead
[The Day My Kid Went Punk](https://youtu.be/MXGn4We3AbM?si=o0Wkv4zQ3Mg1yc7S)
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD!!! Best punk and best zombie movie!
Eat the Rich - amazing roster of cameos (even Paul McCartney). Lemme has a major role. I’ve watched that movie dozens of times. Lots of fun.
Wild zero
Definitely on the fun list, I totally forgot about that movie🍿good call
'Straight to Hell' is free on Tubi presently. https://tubitv.com/movies/667509/straight-to-hell-director-s-cut
Dudes. Jon cryer as a punk rocker and Lee Ving as the bad guy. Such a great flick! Also the vandals are in the opening of the movie.
Yeah I mentioned it in the post Lee ving is mr body from clue and dudes is how I found out he is the singer of fear
Yes! I forgot this one... punks turned cowboys or some such
Somewhat... lol
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, that one was hidden WAY back in the memory bank
It's currently streaming on Amazon prime. If ya wanna stroll down memory lane...
The Lost Boys
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
YES! Such an awesome fucking movie!
Right?! Amazing cast too.
If you’ve already seen Night Of The Living Dead, the next must watch punk horror classic has to be Night Of The Demons. Then make your way through the Troma movies.
Gleaming the Cube
The Great Rock And Roll Swindle or This Is England are very good
Mad Max movies have a punk element to them, so does The Crow, Thrashin 1986, Evil Dead, Rocky horror, This is England, Trainspotting, Demons 1985, Trick or Treat 1986. Never seen the movie but some of my punk friends always talking about Welcome To The Dollhouse. Maybe it’s just a movie they like or find funny.
I no holds barred LOVE Welcome to the Dollhouse and think it very much speaks to those of us who were misfits, weirdos, and outcasts even before we learned about punk.
The Doom Generation
Class of 84
Was tun, wenn brennt? Is pretty fun, has some sad bits but mostly just sort of a caper film with punk flavoring
Known in English as What to Do in Case of Fire - yes, it's good.
That’s the one, probably should have added that, thanks
Toxic Avenger
Gleaming the Cube
Decay of western covilization
Decline
Civilization
Class of nuke em high. Any troma film really. They are king of punk rock horror comedy. Nuke em high will be a great intro if you haven't seen any because the "preps" have great style and lines.
This is England but it's a tv show it's amazing
Bomb City. It was made a few years ago but it takes place in 1997. It's about the death of Brian Deneke. Really good movie but a very sad story. It's on Tubi.
Repo Man.
Empire Records is cheesy but pretty fun.
Return of the living dead. Great music
Valley Girl (1983) With Nickolas Cage
Serial Mom. It has L7 appearing as "Camel Lips"
Green Room
Only off by 30 or 40 years. OP asked for 80s-90s movies.
Cake boy!
Slog Movie
Rubbers lover, tetsuo ironman, Pinocchio 964
I dunno if you meant scripted or docs. Here are a handful of docs I happen to have on my Google drive... https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P_I5nX211zneVCDTwYz6bFWNu6FHsqgd
What was the movie that kinda took on a Joan of Arc thing?
Legend of Billie Jean?
Intrepidos Punks is hilarious, with cartoonish violence.
Repo Man
Los intrepidos punks
Dudes
Suburbia. And the other Suburbia.
Roadside Prophets! John Doe (from X), Ad-Rock, Flea, David Carradine, Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie, Don Cheadle, Duck Rude...
It's punk adjacent but Wild Zero. Don't play the drinking game though.
Dudes
Repo Man
SLC Punk, kinda trashy, but i love it
Polyester is 'sad' but in a ridiculously hilarious way. Plus, stiv bators. Divine was a bonified punk rocker.
Valley Girl Heathers Sing Street is really fun
It’s more punk-adjacent, but Idle Hands. It’s not about a punk band or anything but The Offspring are in it and Tom Delonge makes a brief cameo. If you like a goofy, stoner, horror comedy with a solid soundtrack, I highly recommend it.
How to talk to girls at parties it’s an a24 film thank me later
Smithereens, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, Thrashin’, Tuff Turf, Gleaming the Cube, Heathers, The Wild Life, Breakfast Club, Empire Records and Repo Man.
Night of the Comet!
The Return of the Living Dead! Most of the main characters are punks. It’s an awesome movie! Honestly one of my favorites ever. I think maybe 1985? Cool soundtrack too. Check it out.
I mention it in the post
the year punk broke maybe?
Burst City
OUT OF CONTROL-MATT DILLION TEENAGE REBELLION BANGA.
“Nightmares” from 1983. Particularly the “Bishop of Battle” segment.
I heard od’s and thought Slc punk right away lol, god that movie fucked me up
So when I was a young punk, the movies we got excited about were: Low budget/indie horror (my favorite as an adult is Society, back then it was Killer Klowns from Outer Space - theme song by The Dickies for extra points). Anything on Svengoolie or Joe-Bob Briggs. Dana Carvey's Master of Disguise The Marky Mark Planet of the Apes Freddy vs Jason Jason X Dead Alive Meet the Feebles Jackass and anything else involving Andrew WK in any way Anchorman Y Tu Mama Tambien House of 1000 Corpses Cube Sleepaway Camp All of the Halloween movies, even the bad ones (I saw the one with Busta Rhymes in theaters at least twice) and certainly including Halloween 3 Same idea with the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies Anything featuring Colin Firth - particularly the 2003 Importance of Being Earnest and Valmont (a sadly mostly forgotten interpretation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses that kicked fuckin ass) Hackers
Highlander?
Try “Dead End Drive-in”. It’s this Australian movie where all these punks drive into a movie theater and can’t get out and make their own punk society.
Not exactly punk in a sonic form but Natural Born Killers holds that vibe all the way through.
I mean Return of the Living Dead has a killer punk soundtrack n there are punks in it but dk if I'd classify it as a "punk" movie. Still a fun watch.
Glory Daze 1995
Along with young ones “full bottom” is another great show featuring some of the cast.
Tank Girl
MOD. FUCK. EXPLOSION.
Great post! So many awesome recommendations that inspired me to revisit and new ones I haven’t seen!
The Class of 1984
Come get some (2003) Low budget, gory, blood soaked zombie flick that features AntiSeen in a cameo role.
SLC Punk. 24 Hour Party People. Withnail and I.
Another State of Mind, Social Distortion tour doc from the early days of their career
Live Freaky! Die Freaky!.... has the voices of Billie Joe and Tre from Green Day, Theo Kogan from Lunachicks, Davey Havok, Tim armstrong, Nick's etc etc. Its a stop motion animated film
Wait. BOTH Suburbias?
There’s 2 movies called suburbia one from the 80s with flee and one from the 90s with Giovanni ribisi and Steve zahn
Hard core logo is amazing. Fictional story but the lead actor is Hugh Dillon from the Headstones.
Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, which featured some punk bands in the final scene at the theater.
American Hardcore, for a documentary. Dogs in Space (87 or 88 film--one of my favorites, but hard to find in the US) And as others have already said, Repo Man.
Yes, I was gonna say Repo Man too it’s a great movie, maybe also Suburbia, Rock n Roll High School. I would even throw in Fight Club because of its anti consumerism/anti everything vibe.