Sick and tired or watching Hilary Duff movies with your little sister (or brother) and want to watch something that speaks to you and your punk rock friends? Premiere has thrown together the ultimate list of punk (-ish, -esque) films, spanning the past 30 years.


Shane West as Darby Cash

Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979) - You can't call yourself a Ramones fan unless you've seen this.
Blank Generation (1980)
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1981)
Urgh! A Music War (1981)
Smithereens (1982)
Suburbia (1984)
Repo Man (1984)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) - Probably the best comedy/horror film of all time!
Sid & Nancy (1986) - I'm assuming you already know who they are, right?
Dogs in Space (1987)
Roadkill (1989)
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
What About Me (1993)
The Doom Generation (1995)
Hackers (1995)
SLC Punk! (1998)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
What We Do is Secret (2008)

The most recent film on the list, What We Do is Secret, tells the story of 70's LA punk band The Germs and their outrageous singer Darby Cash (Slashing his own chest was just one of Cash's many onstage antics)! Secret stars actor Shane West as Cash, who oddly enough, is now the official singer of the real life Germs.

Are there any punk rock films missing from Premiere's list? Do you feel that some/many of these films exploited the culture or made it appear different from what it really was?