Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999), Nico-Icon (1995), Eden (2014), Paris Is Burning (1990), Trainspotting (1996), Venus Boyz (2002), Scratch (2001), This Filthy World (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Underground Culture movies.
Storyline: This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: music, rock, band, concert, documentary, live performance, uk ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.—<Ummagumma@sos.on.sa>
Plot Keywords: rock music, independent film, canadian film, mockumentary, black comedy, road movie, antihero ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having failed to break into professional opera in his native Germany (where, as an usher in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper, he would serenade the staff after the 'real' performances were over) the diminutive Klaus Nomi headed for NYC in 1972. The vibrant New Wave/avant-garde gestalt of the mid/late '70's East Village proved to be fertile ground for the development of his unique talents. Working by day as a high-end pastry chef, Nomi began to stage his outlandish performances, first launching himself upon an unsuspecting public at the New Wave Vaudeville in 1978. The hip and cynical young audience was stunned by this weird combination of falsetto arias, booming classical orchestration, Kraftwerk-style electronica, futuristic costumes and outer space imagery. An odd assortment of artists, choreographers, designers, songwriters and musicians jumped on to the Nomi bandwagon and the phenomenon began to take off - first attracting thousands to South Manhattan events (including performances at the legendary Max's Kansas City) and culminating in a recording contract with the French division of RCA. With the release 'Klaus Nomi' in 1981 and 'Simple Man' in 1982, it looked as if Nomi was on the verge of superstardom. Having established himself in Europe, he made a triumphant return to New York City. But Nomi's moment of glory proved to be his swansong. Within only a few months Nomi had succumbed to the ravages of AIDS. One of the first celebrities to be killed by this mysterious new disease, Nomi died a lonely death, largely abandoned by those who had seen him as a passport to their own success. Today, the otherworldliness of 'The Cold Song' and 'Dido's Lament' is like an ethereal voice calling from beyond the grave.—George Darley
Plot Keywords: music, biography, documentary, opera, counterculture, 1980s, experimental music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Adam (Tom Hiddleston), an underground musician, reunites with his lover for centuries (Tilda Swinton) after he becomes depressed and tired with the direction human society has taken. Their love is interrupted and tested by her wild and uncontrollable little sister (Mia Wasikowska).
Plot Keywords: vampire, romance, independent film, art film, gothic, supernatural, melancholy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
Plot Keywords: electronic music, berlin, dj culture, drug abuse, mental breakdown, recovery, music production ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.
Plot Keywords: horror, zombie, comedy, science fiction, undead, b-movie, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film that follows the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, punk, los angeles, underground culture, social outcasts, teenagers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Paul Rachman recalls the 1980s American punk-rock movement and features interviews and performance footage with such bands as Black Flag and Circle Jerks.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, punk, american, history, culture, underground music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary covering the rise of extremely alternative band Half Japanese: from the early days when Jad and David Fair recorded loud music in their bedroom for distribution via mail order cassette tape, to their contemporary incarnation after David's departure for married life and Jad's increased stature among musicians and critics. Includes interviews with Jad, David, Mo Tucker of Velvet underground fame, and Penn Jillette, who produced an album of theirs.—James Meek <james@oz.net>
Plot Keywords: music documentary, independent music, japanese culture, music history, art film, music legend, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. Malcolm is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled with gangsters and drug dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT. His dream is to attend Harvard. A chance invitation to a big underground party leads Malcolm and his friends into an "only in Los Angeles" gritty adventure filled with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he'll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, comedy, crime, drama, street culture, los angeles, high school ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mark is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to Arizona from the East Coast. His parents give him a short-wave radio so he can talk to his pals, but instead he sets up shop as pirate deejay Hard Harry, who becomes a hero to his peers while inspiring the wrath of the local high school principal. When one of Harry's listeners commits suicide, inspired chaos breaks out at the school and the authorities are called in to put a stop to Harry's broadcasts.
Plot Keywords: teen, rebellion, loneliness, high school life, secret identity, social issues, counterculture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Told from three perspectives, a story of a bunch of young Californians trying to get some cash, do and deal some drugs, score money and sex in Las Vegas, and generally experience the rush of life.
Plot Keywords: youth, comedy, crime, black comedy, multi-narrative, drugs, nightlife ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life and career of street artist, illustrator, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing, Shepard Fairey.
Plot Keywords: documentary, rebellion, social movement, cultural impact, visual art, underground culture, creative process ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in North African port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, psychological thriller, psychedelic, black comedy, drug culture, existentialism, dystopian ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, politics, protest, punk, russia, women ...
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