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A brutally honest documentary chronicling four decades of NOFX’s career, exploring the music, chaos, and contradictions behind one of punk rock’s most outspoken bands. Through firsthand accounts and unseen moments, the film reveals a story that is as reckless and funny as it is personal.

I WAS A TEENAGE SEX PISTOL

Based on the novel by Glen Matlock, a founding member of the Sex Pistols and co-writer of ten of the twelve iconic songs on their sole studio album, 'NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS'. Matlock details the mindset of early 70s Britain and reveals a trove of secrets

PUNK UNDER COMMUNIST REGIME

Documentary about the Slovenian punk movement (1977–1985): the rebellion of high school bands against the Yugoslav communist regime. As Tito was dying, an explosive counterculture emerged in Ljubljana, which the authorities tried to crush through repression and the infamous “Nazi punk affair”.

...AND OUT COMES THE WOLF

A group of youths band together to break out of their hopeless small town. The story is inspired by Rancid and the '90s East Bay punk scene.

GO AGAINST THE FLOW

Late seventies, Poland. In a backwater town, Ustrzyki Dolne, a few teenagers form a punk rock band under the influence of the Sex Pistols. When Radio Free Europe starts a program for them following their letter, the communist secret service also takes notice of their rebellion. An officer makes it clear to them: Ustrzyki Dolne is not London, there will be no punk here.

24 Hour Party People

2002

Feature Film

7.4/10 (IMDb)

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Writer:

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Length:

115 min

Language:

English

Cast:

Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Shirley Henderson, Mark Windows

Manchester, 1976. After a life-changing Sex Pistols gig, Cambridge-educated TV reporter Tony Wilson decides to start a revolution. With his friends, he launches Factory Records, which becomes home to era-defining bands like Joy Division and the Happy Mondays. The film charts Wilson's dizzying journey from the label's rise and the opening of the legendary Haçienda club to the personal and professional crises that ultimately signaled the end of the Manchester music scene in the early '90s.

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