Directed by Thomas Rames • 2025 • United States, France

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: ALIVE IN THE CATACOMBS is the cinematic realization of a dream years in the making, an audiovisual document of the band’s long-rumored performance in the tunnels of the famed Catacombs of Paris. Recorded in July 202...

Directed by Bruce Weber • 1988 • United States

Drifting dreamily between past and present, this haunting portrait of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker contrasts archival footage of the musician as an impossibly beautiful icon of cool in the 1950s with the tragically ruined heroin junkie he became. Subli...

Directed by Jack Bond • 1987 • United Kingdom
Starring Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Joss Ackland

Perfect pop surrealism meets a deconstructed, darkly deadpan road movie in this sublimely strange and singular musical odyssey from legendary synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Members Neil Tennant and Chris ...

Directed by Ondi Timoner • 2024 • United States

Twenty years ago, the emerging indie-sleaze underground was rocked by DIG!, Ondi Timoner’s rockumentary about two Gen X bands and their journey to alternative-rock glory. Shot over nearly a decade, DIG! explores the collision of art and commerce th...

Directed by Matthew Harrison • 1994 • United States
Starring Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kevin Corrigan

Shot guerrilla-style in a whirlwind eleven days for just $11,000, Matthew Harrison’s edgy, invigorating indie follows Simon (Jason Andrews), a small-time hustler who ekes out a living sellin...

Directed by Sini Anderson • 2013 • United States

Kathleen Hanna, electrifying lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement, becoming both a famously outspoken feminist leader as w...

Directed by Florian Habicht • 2014 • United Kingdom

Sing along with the common people in this exuberant, appropriately offbeat tribute to the charmingly cheeky Britpop legends. Though culminating with the farewell concert the band played to thousands of adoring fans in their hometown of Sheffiel...

Directed by David Mingay and Jack Hazan • 1980 • United Kingdom
Starring Ray Gange, Joe Strummer, Topper Headon

Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s follow-up to their acclaimed David Hockney portrait A BIGGER SPLASH once again merges documentary and fiction, following roughneck Ray Gange as he drops h...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 1997 • United States
Starring Elliott Smith

This intimate portrait of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith features him performing three songs.

Directed by Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen • 2000 • United States

Far from a standard music documentary, Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen’s loving portrait of underground musician Benjamin Smoke—speed freak, drag queen, and a true outsider artist in every sense of the word—captures his singular personalit...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 1999 • United States
Starring Fugazi

Filmed over the course of more than ten years, from 1987 to 1998, INSTRUMENT is director Jem Cohen’s visceral, fittingly unconventional portrait of legendary DC punk band Fugazi from their origins through their electrifying prime. Capt...

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1967 • United States

Bob Dylan is captured on-screen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from D. A. Pennebaker. The legendary documentarian finds Dylan in England during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic artist. In this wildly...

Directed by Murray Lerner • 1967 • United States

Before WOODSTOCK and MONTEREY POP, there was FESTIVAL. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bo...

Directed by Nick Spitzer • 1984 • United States

Shot in rural French-speaking Louisiana, this vibrant ethnographic portrait of zydeco’s beloved musical families explores their Creole identities through engaging footage of them at home, in local clubs, at work, and running Mardi Gras. Featuring p...

Directed by Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon • 2013 • United States

THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC! is a vivid portrait of Chris Strachwitz, the obsessive sonic sleuth who founded the legendary music label Arhoolie Records to bring blues, Cajun, Tejano, zydeco, folk, and other forms of American roots ...

Directed by Neo Sora • 2023 • Japan
Starring Ryuichi Sakamoto

A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS is the swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. As a parting gift, in late 2022, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with on...

Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1980 • United Kingdom
Starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel

Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell). W...

Directed by Phil King • 2024 • United Kingdom
Starring Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Chris Acland

One of the defining bands of the shoegaze wave that washed over the indie-rock world in the 1990s, Lush mesmerized with their otherworldly vocals set against a swirling wall of sound. Assembled by fo...

Directed by Ryan Daly and Will Oldham • 2023 • United States

This visual accompaniment to the 2023 album of the same name by revered indie-folk wizard Will Oldham (aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy) invites us not only to hear but to watch the music in a new way. Assembled by filmmaker and archivist Rya...