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8MM(1999)

R
| 2h 3min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 836 votes)

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

Directed by Joel Schumacher - With Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Anthony Heald, Chris Bauer, ...
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Cruising(1980)

R
| 1h 42min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 208 votes)

A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as a decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society.

Directed by William Friedkin - With Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino, James Remar, ...
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Hardcore(1979)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 99 votes)

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search for his runaway teenage daughter who’s making porno films in the pits of Los Angeles.

Directed by Paul Schrader - With George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent, Gary Graham, Tracey Walter, ...
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Paris Is Burning(1991)

R
| 1h 11min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 208 votes)

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

Directed by Jennie Livingston

Fox and His Friends(1975)

2h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 50 votes)

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - With Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Ulla Jacobsson, Harry Baer, ...
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The Decline of Western Civilization(1981)

1h 40min | Documentary, Music
3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.

Directed by Penelope Spheeris - With Black Flag, Germs, The Bags, Circle Jerks, Fear, Alice Bag, ...
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Style Wars(1983)

1h 10min | Music, Documentary, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 22 votes)

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Directed by Tony Silver - With DONDI, Frosty Freeze, Ed Koch, IZ the Wiz

Snuff Trap(2004)

1h 28min | Mystery, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Michelle lives in Paris with René, who is influential politicians. One morning as Michelle discovers that her 18-year-old daughter Lauren has not come home from a pub tonight. René does not want to involve the police, because he does not want a scandal that could affect his political career negative. They decide instead to hire a private investigator. It turns out that Lauren has been kidnapped to be used by a gang producing snuff. Detective withdraws from the case, however, because he fears for his life and Michelle decides to find their own daughter. The hunt goes by porn swamps in Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

Directed by Bruno Mattei

Dorfpunks(2009)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

It is the summer of 1984 in Schmalenstedt, in the middle of Holstein Switzerland, directly on the Baltic Sea. The 17-year-old Malte Ahrens, who calls himself Roddy Dangerblood, lives with his elderly parents in a farmhouse, is trained as a potter and has discovered for himself the punk that has made its way into Schmalenstedt with some delay.

Directed by Lars Jessen - With Pit Bukowski, Rocko Schamoni

Fursonas(2016)

1h 21min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

A look inside the furry community - who's a part of it, why, and what it's really all about.

Directed by Dominic Rodriguez
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Strange Life: The Breech(1998)

1h 2min | Documentary, Horror

A collection of footage and interviews with strange people and their exploration into the unusual and extreme side of body modification.

Stuffed(2019)

1h 24min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

An inside look into the world of taxidermy and the passionate artists from all over the world who work on the animals.

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Love Parade: When Love Learned to Dance(2019)

1h 29min | Documentary, History, Music
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

At the end of the Cold War, something new arised that should influence an entire generation and express their attitude to life. It started with an idea in the underground subculture of Berlin shortly before the fall of the Wall. With the motto "Peace, Joy, Pancakes", Club DJ Dr. Motte and companions launched the first Love Parade. A procession registered as political demonstration with only 150 colorfully dressed people dancing to house and techno. What started out small developed over the years into the largest party on the planet with visitors from all over the world. In 1999, 1.5 million people took part. With the help of interviews with important organizers and contemporary witnesses, the documentary reflects the history of the Love Parade, but also illuminates the dark side of how commerce and money business increasingly destroyed the real spirit, long before the emigration to other cities and the Love Parade disaster of Duisburg in 2010, which caused an era to end in deep grief.

With Benno Fürmann, Dr. Motte, Danielle de Picciotto, WestBam, Wolfram Neugebauer, Jürgen Laarmann, ...

Spuren des Performativen(2017)

46min | Documentary

GDR August 31, 1985, Klubhaus in Coswig/Dresden - "Intermedia I - Farbraum/Klangbild"- the event was the first and, as it turned out, the last exhibition by the subculture in East Germany, in which over 40 visual artists and twice as many musicians, performers and super 8 film photographers participated. About 1,200 visitors travelled from all over the GDR to witness a six hour programme on both evenings. It remains unclear to this day how many informers working for the Stasi were among them.

8-8-88 Church of Satan Mansonite Rally(1988)

1h 13min | Documentary

On August 8, 1988, the world’s first and largest Satanic rally took place. Ripped from a video featuring Satanist talking about creating a New World Order and killing off the masses. The 8-8-88 ritual was conducted right at the heart of the Satanic Panic. The goal, further exploit and feed upon the energies produced by the fears of the ignorant general public and media. It was shown to a sold-out crowd of degenerates promising them, “A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief,” “A Nightmare of TERROR!” and “An Evening of Apocalyptic Delight!”.

tokyo skin(1996)

1h 32min | Drama

Amidst the swirl of Tokyo's seamy nightlife of designer drugs, casual sex, and American slang, Zhou turns 30. It's a spiritual crisis for this Chinese immigrant who quotes Confucius, this Lothario and con artist who fences stolen goods. He falls for Kyōko, a seemingly shy provincial woman looking for the man who jilted her sister. As their relationship plays out, Hanawa intercuts stories of Kazuo, a hyperkinetic artist who loves the trendy Yōko (Kazuo bores her, and she pursues the indifferent Zhou), and Ali, a Pakistani Muslim who, broke and forlorn, stands outside a convenience store, love-struck by a clerk because she looked into his eyes (she thought he was shop-lifting)

Swedish Greasers(2019)

1h 10min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A sub culture evolved in Sweden in the 1950’s, Swedish greasers. The greasers were young and wild, drove American cars and rebelled against society. We meet the next generation of motorised youth the “Neo-Greasers”. What price are they willing to pay to live a demand-less life?

Moleman 2: Demoscene(2011)

1h 30min | Documentary
4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

In the 1980's, something changed the world forever. Computer technology, mostly due to the appearance of affordable Commodore 64's, entered households worldwide, providing the opportunity for everyone to create digital art. Moleman 2 is about the demoscene subculture, told by mostly Hungarian sceneres, but it features also some other nationalities.

The Story of Skinhead(2016)

1h | Documentary, Music, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Don Letts examines the history of this notorious subculture in a fascinating documentary, which features interviews with members of different skinhead scenes through the decades. Beginning in the late 1960s, Don fondly recalls a time of multiracial harmony as youngsters bonded over a love of ska, reggae and smart clothes as white working-class kids were attracted to Jamaican culture and adopted its music and fashions. But when far-right politics targeted skinheads in the 1970s and 1980s, an ugly intolerance emerged, and Don reveals how the once-harmonious subgroup has since struggled to shake this stigma.

Oi for England(1982)

54min | Music, Drama, TV Movie
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

In the Moss Side, Manchester "race riots" of 1981 a struggling punk band are tempted by a sinister entrepreneur to perform at a major gig in support of British extreme Right political organizations.

Dreams Don't Die(1982)

1h 40min | Drama, Thriller, TV Movie, Crime
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.

Heaven and Hell(1969)

1h 34min | Music, Crime, Drama
1.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Norwegain cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is harmless. Together with some friends they decide to try. The start of a drug Hell for all involved. The film was poorly received by the critics, but it nonetheless became one of the highest-grossing theater films in Norway in 1969.

Directed by Øyvind Christian Vennerød - With Lillebjørn Nilsen, Sigrid Huun, Georg Richter, Randi Kolstad, Per Tofte, Pål Skjønberg, ...

Sex, Death & Eyeliner(1999)

Documentary

Documentary directed by W.K. Border, that which dives into the aspects of contemporary Gothic subculture, vampirism, and BDSM culture. Filmed in 1997 in California.

Sly Artistic City(2010)

1h 5min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Some argue that modern graffiti was born in Philadelphia, where the pioneers of wall-writing became citywide celebrities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Graffiti eventually consumed the city, and a new mayor made it his top priority to fight back. In the process, the city's Mural Arts Program was born. Philadelphia is now a great outdoor museum. Yet graffiti still thrives, with new writers always ready to replace those who are caught or quit.

C-Walk: It's a Way of Livin'(2003)

1h 25min | Documentary, Music

Straight off the streets of South Central L.A., CJ Mac brings you a documentary about a gang ritual that has become a popular dance craze. Hear the opinions from the artists who made the C-Walk mainstream through music videos and live performances, and meet the original Crip gang members who started the walk. Is it a dance... or a gang ritual? You decide! Features Snoop Dogg, WC, Ice-T, Kurupt, Ras Kass, Malik Yoba, Warren G and Jonathan Davis.

Irish Catholic(2023)

Comedy, Music, Drama

Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead O'Connor to guide her, Shavon battles institutional child abuse, narcissistic group think, a talking stomach and a singing poop bucket! Shavon goes from Catholic to Crusty Punk in this very, very, very, dark musical comedy!

Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig(2015)

2h 15min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A review of the wild New York City nightlife of the 90s. The cast of characters who made up the infamous Club Kids speak candidly about that era, culminating with Alig's release from incarceration.

Anarchy in the Philippines(2018)

8min | Documentary

An intimate journey into the heart of the small but powerful DIY punk movement in modern-day Philippines. They hitchhike, beg for food, screen print bootleg band t-shirts, and help vulnerable members of their community. But President Duterte's violent 'War on Drugs' makes a punk lifestyle an incredibly dangerous choice.

Suspension: The Ultimate Body Experience(1999)

1h 30min | Documentary

A look into the world of body piercing and suspension and the people who do it.

China Dolls(1998)

30min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".

Directed by Tony Ayres
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