Movie That May Or May Not Be Punk

A look at the New York City punk-rock scene and the venerable nightclub, CBGB.

A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.

Ramones fanatic and delinquent Riff Randell battles it out with the strict new principal of Vince Lombardi High School, Miss Togar, with help from the Ramones.

A neurotic society woman murders her husband with her maid's help; on the lam, they escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled by a fascist queen.

The true-life story of Darby Crash, who became an L.A. punk icon after getting kicked out of high school and forming The Germs with a collection of friends who have little experience with their instruments or playing music.

In the early 1980s Stevo, and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.

The Paddy Lincoln Gang are a rock band with everything - as well as total immersion in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But their charismatic lead singer holds a dark secret from his past, a secret that is about to explode.

Three teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, in this short film by renowned artist Raymond Pettibon.

Deep in the heart of the garden state, the worlds greatest bachelor party is being planned. Things seem to be going smoothly until the unthinkable happens. New Jersey's two biggest idiots, Mo & Doyle get involved. The groom to be is kidnapped and all fingers point to Mo and Doyle. These two morons along with the help of their friend Kira, try to set things straight. Experience the madness and mayhem that ensues when these three childhood friends pimp punk rock infamy in IDIOTS ARE US...

The Pussycats and a pet-sized fluffy alien called Bleep, encounter strange new worlds, where they are often kidnapped by various alien races before escaping and attempting to return home.

A group of washed-up Canadian punk rockers get back together for a road trip in memory of a dear friend who was supposedly shot, or so rumors imply. As they travel, they ignore the underlying psychological darkness within each other.

Two eccentric best friends graduate high school and respond to a man's romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag, only to find their lives becoming increasingly complicated.

In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

Newhall, California sits about thirty miles north of Los Angeles, not quite the middle of nowhere, but not exactly a real city either. A place where the youth are still stuck living at home, still trying to fit in, and not quite sure where the future will lead. These are the days where they start realizing that real life doesn't always end up like a movie.

On the run as an extremely abused roadie for a punk band, a frustrated erotic cake baker finally finds love with a wheel chair bound beauty who encourages him to pursue his dreams in a televised battle against the French baking establishment.

On the run from a $45,000 debt, critically acclaimed, San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Amalia Ortiz has returned home and is hiding out in Texas. When her attempt to make ends meet working in the family business, selling quaint folk art door-to-door doesn't work out, she turns her artistic sights on Speeder, the Chicano punk band rehearsing across the street. She has ambitions to create a documentary portrait of the band detailing "the cultural poetics of Mexican American South Texas." The band just wants to make a music video. As artist and band collaborate, their simple plan to recreate a scene from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in the middle of San Antonio's annual Fiesta celebration quickly spirals out of control. What follows is a mass media maelstrom of hijacked floats, kidnapped beauty queens, and an inevitable place in rock and roll history.

The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.

The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970s.

Spawned from a strict Catholic upbringing, Tommy has grown into a young man set in his ways. As he reconciles with family friend Misha Bravo, a manic depressive and independent-thinker whom he has been enamored with since his teens, Tommy is thrust into her opposing mind-frame and punk philosophy.

A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.

This follows the life and drama of Dirk, his punk band (The Big Tippers), and their lives on the road.

The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.

A small town punk band travels to their first out of town gig, only to find the venue deserted, the promoter a creep, and the only audience a pack of bloodthirsty demons from hell.

Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of '90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent, meaningless death rocks their lives.

A young British punk and roadie for The Clash navigates life in socially torn 1970s England.

Sometime in the distant future, a fledgling band gets an opportunity for a breakthrough, if they can make it in time to a faraway planet to perform in a very popular club.

In the 1970s, a music promoter plucks conjoined twins from obscurity, and grooms them into a freakish rock 'n' roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.

Aimless and uncertain, a group of teenagers go through an intense coming-of-age experience in their small desert town.

Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.

A coming of age story about the best times of our life; a time where the music, the fashion, and the art dictate your youth into complacency. On the day Lando turns twenty-one, all he wants is to hang out with his co-workers, bickering couple Lars and Friday; see his girlfriend Amy; then go to a party with his friends Aces, Trent and Yardbirds. Facing pressure from his stepfather, Lando discovers throughout the day that youth is as cherished as it is fleeting. The end of innocence and the blossoming of experience go hand and hand whenever accountability jades us into adulthood. Glory Boy Days proves that the deepest definition of youth is life untouched by tragedy.

Set in the near future in France, Ireland and Great Britain, this punk-rock comedy war epic in iambic pentameter chronicles a military coup plotted against the House of Windsor by the House of Stuart.

A group of teenage boys opt to form their own identity by riding skateboards, wearing tight pants.

New York City rock bands and promoters (all playing themselves) face off against animated insect villains from outer space determined to put female rock stars into bondage scenarios in an extremely unique punk rock musical comedy.

A collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses.

Seven skateboarding friends test the limits of freedom in a stifling suburb where there isn't much to do.

Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a young Israeli woman carrying the promise of a better, cleaner way of living. A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama in "Saturn Returns", mirroring Lucy and Galia's modulating states of mind. Our and their look into each other's life and culture, becomes an investigation of empty facades. The film was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.

Born to Lose is a shoestring film that takes a pseudo-documentary glipmse into the punk periphery of the Los Angeles music scene and lead singer, Stevie Monroe's odyssey of nihilism.

Three punk-loving New York City dudes need a change and drive a VW Beetle to California. After rednecks kill one of them in Arizona, they want justice. A cute girl helps them.

An off-beat comedy about how having a gay father can be the least of a punk girl's problems.

Franny and Zoe wake up one morning ready to go on a high school field trip. Their plans quickly change when Zoe drinks contaminated water

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

A hardluck hustler attempts to run after-hours party joints while dodging dirtbag cops, shyster landlords, and assorted lowlifes.

Nada, a beautiful French journalist stationed in New York, records the life and work of a promising punk rock star, Billy. She soon enters into a relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it or return to her lover.

Zombie punk comes back to life to rock.

In the summer of the 2003, thousands of punk rock kids and musicians attended the Vans Warped Tour. Eight weeks later very few had survived. This is their story.

High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.

A Spanish punk rock band has an accident while on tour. Forced to spend the night at the eerie castle of Countess Von Fledermaus, the musicians soon realise that the mysterious lady's kindness hides macabre, blood-curdling plans.

Pablo plays guitar at a bar in downtown Santa Fe and skateboards there and back every day. He is bound by the ankle bracelet that won't let him go anywhere else. He meets a waitress at the bar, Isabel, who is a sweet girl and likes him. She sets it up so she can take him to Taos and away from Santa Fe for a day. Everything in his life seems simple and pleasant when Jenny calls him on the phone and Isabel convinces him to give her a ride. When they drop her off Pablo tells Isabel that Jenny is crazy. Steve, a crazy person that he used to know, shows up at his front door and insists that they go together to look for the person who has stolen his girl, Jenny. Jenny is also looking for Pablo, while at the same time trying to avoid Steve. Isabel sees Jenny with Pablo and leaves to be alone, but runs into Steve. This could prove to be very dangerous, but it is Jenny who is in fact the dangerous one. She shoots Steve in the head and kills Kills Isabel, but Steve lives. Pablo goes home finds Jenny in his apartment and then Steve shows up and mistakenly shoots Jenny and then himself.Pablo escapes into the night

At one of their Gigs The Killer Barbys have to fight Dracula after he is awakened by their music.

Monster-slaying hero Daisy Derkins ventures into the woods to deal with a carnivorous dinosaur, and runs afoul of a touring punk band, a manic bounty hunter, a trio of voluptuous female criminals, and a family of mutant cannibals along the way.