Best "punk rock" Movies of All Time

365 movies found (page 1/13):

Cruella(2021)

PG-13

4.0/5 (with 4,301 votes)

In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.

Directed by Craig Gillespie - With Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Paul Walter Hauser, Joel Fry, Emily Beecham, Mark Strong, ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

| 2h 38min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 3,149 votes)

This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

Directed by David Fincher - With Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, ...

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The Return of the Living Dead(1985)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 872 votes)

When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.

Directed by Dan O'Bannon - With Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Linnea Quigley, Thom Mathews, Jewel Shepard, ...

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After Hours(1985)

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Thriller, Drama

3.8/5 (with 646 votes)

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, ...

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D.E.B.S.(2004)

PG-13

| 1h 31min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 233 votes)

The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.

Directed by Angela Robinson - With Sara Michael Foster, Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Jimmi Simpson, ...

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Do the Right Thing(1989)

| 2h | Drama

3.9/5 (with 732 votes)

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Directed by Spike Lee - With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, ...

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20th Century Women(2016)

| 1h 59min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 507 votes)

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

Directed by Mike Mills - With Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Alia Shawkat, Darrell Britt-Gibson, ...

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Death Wish 3(1985)

| 1h 32min | Action, Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 181 votes)

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.

Directed by Michael Winner - With Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy, Tony Spiridakis, ...

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Valley Girl(1983)

| 1h 39min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 91 votes)

Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

Directed by Martha Coolidge - With Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Meyrink, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Lee Purcell, ...

Sid and Nancy(1986)

| 1h 54min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 212 votes)

January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.

Directed by Alex Cox - With Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, ...

Persepolis(2007)

PG-13

| 1h 35min | Animation, Drama

4.0/5 (with 829 votes)

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Directed by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

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Repo Man(1984)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 245 votes)

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

Directed by Alex Cox - With Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Eddie Velez, Zander Schloss, Dick Rude, Tracey Walter, ...

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Class of 1984(1982)

| 1h 38min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 140 votes)

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

Directed by Mark L. Lester - With Perry King, Tim Van Patten, Roddy McDowall, Michael J. Fox, Lisa Langlois, Al Waxman, ...

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Short Circuit 2(1988)

| 1h 50min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Science Fiction, Drama

3.0/5 (with 244 votes)

Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.

Directed by Kenneth Johnson - With Tim Blaney, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Robert LaSardo, ...

CBGB(2013)

| 1h 41min | Drama, Music

3.2/5 (with 66 votes)

A look at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.

Directed by Randall Miller - With Ahna O'Reilly, Alan Rickman, Ashley Greene, Bradley Whitford, Donal Logue, Freddy Rodriguez, ...

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Summer of Sam(1999)

| 2h 22min | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 192 votes)

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Directed by Spike Lee - With John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Rispoli, ...

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains(1982)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Music

3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.

Directed by Lou Adler - With Diane Lane, Laura Dern, Brent Spiner, Elizabeth Daily, Paul Cook, Paul Simonon, ...

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The Driller Killer(1979)

1h 36min | Drama, Horror

2.6/5 (with 71 votes)

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.

Directed by Abel Ferrara - With Abel Ferrara

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Bomb City(2017)

| 1h 35min | Drama, Crime

3.6/5 (with 112 votes)

A crime-drama, about the cultural aversion of a group of punk rockers in a conservative Texas town. Their ongoing battle with a rival, more-affluent clique leads to a controversial hate crime that questions the morality of American justice.

Directed by Jamie Ryan Scott Brooks

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How to Talk to Girls at Parties(2017)

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love, Science Fiction

3.1/5 (with 164 votes)

In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they navigate the complexities of intergalactic culture and the trials of first love.

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell - With Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, Matt Lucas, Joanna Scanlan, ...

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SLC Punk(1998)

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Crime, Music

3.6/5 (with 146 votes)

Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.

Directed by James Merendino - With Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien, Christopher McDonald, Devon Sawa, ...

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Nana(2005)

1h 53min | Romance / Love, Drama, Music

3.3/5 (with 36 votes)

Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.

Directed by Kentarō Ōtani - With Mika Nakashima, Aoi Miyazaki, Hiroki Narimiya, Kenichi Matsuyama, Yuna Ito, Tetsuji Tamayama, ...

The Doom Generation(1995)

NC-17

| 1h 20min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 100 votes)

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex and violence-filled journey through an United States of psychos and quickie marts.

Directed by Gregg Araki - With Rose McGowan, James Duval, Johnathon Schaech, Cress Williams, Parker Posey, Amanda Bearse, ...

Labyrinth of Passion(1982)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 52 votes)

An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar - With Cecilia Roth, Helga Liné, Antonio Banderas, Agustín Almodóvar, Imanol Arias, Pedro Almodóvar, ...

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Control(2007)

| 2h 1min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 359 votes)

The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

Directed by Anton Corbijn - With Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson, Andrew Sheridan, ...

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Pepi, Luci, Bom(1980)

| 1h 22min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 62 votes)

After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar - With Carmen Maura, Alaska, Cecilia Roth, Julieta Serrano, Kiti Mánver, Agustín Almodóvar, ...

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