Cast: Lydia Lunch

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lydia Lunch. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


L7: Pretend We're Dead

2016 · Documentary · 87 min. · United States

Direction Sarah Price

Cast Suzi Gardner · Donita Sparks · Jennifer Finch · Dee Plakas

Synopsis A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.

7.1

53 votes

7.1

53 votes

Blank City

2009 · Documentary · 94 min. · United States

Direction Celine Danhier

Cast Jim Jarmusch · Nick Zedd · Amos Poe · Deborah Harry

Synopsis During the punk rock stage in the late '70s, downtown New York experienced a wave of "Do it yourself" independent filmmaking.

6.8

50 votes

6.8

50 votes

Fake Orgasm

2010 · Documentary · 81 min. · Spain

6.4

482 votes

6.4

482 votes

Fingered (S)

1986 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard Kern

Cast Lydia Lunch · Emilio Cubeiro · Marty Nation · Pete Haskel

Synopsis Lydia Lunch is a phone sex operator that meets a guy she's been on the phone with. After a semi-hardcore sex scene, the violence begins with the two characters going for a drive, abducting a hitch hiker and raping her...

5.8

50 votes

5.8

50 votes

Mondo New York

1988 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States

Direction Harvey Keith

Cast Joseph Arias · Rick Aviles · Charlie Barnett · Joe Coleman

Synopsis The dark-side tour includes performance artists, a cockfight, a slave auction, someone biting a chicken's head off.

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The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (S)

1983 · Movie · 23 min. · United States

Direction Nick Zedd

Cast Lydia Lunch · Nick Zedd

Synopsis A filmmaker follows his girlfriend around London with a camera featuring narration from a cassette tape she made for him to break-up the relationship.

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Punking Out

1978 · Documentary · 25 min. · United States

Direction Maggi Carson · Juliusz Kossakowski · Ric Shore

Cast Stiv Bators · Richard Hell · Lydia Lunch · Dee Dee Ramone

Synopsis Documents the beginning of the punk rock movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the lifestyle that revolves around this scene. Presents a sometimes shocking look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through...

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My Lover the Killer

2020 · Documentary · 59 min. · France

Direction Marc Hurtado

Cast Lydia Lunch · Marc Hurtado

Synopsis Follows Lydia Lunch across Europe and discover, buried in the labyrinth of his life and his tumultuous work, the incredible story of Johnny O'Kane, her first great love.

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Rome '78

1978 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction James Nares

Cast David McDermott · Eric Mitchell · Lydia Lunch · Kristian Hoffman

Synopsis In a mock Rome (shot in neo-classic buildings), characters dressed in makeshift costumes, live a Roman life, with political intrigue, flirting and dyonisiac dances.

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The Right Side of My Brain (S)

1985 · Movie · 23 min. · United States

Direction Richard Kern

Cast Lydia Lunch · Norman Westberg · Brian Moran · J.G. Thirlwell

Synopsis A woman goes through a series of sexual assignations that involve varying degrees of violence. A voiceover provides her musings on sex, violence, power and control.

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Llik Your Idols

2007 · Documentary · 70 min. · United States

Direction Angélique Bosio

Cast Joe Coleman · Richard Hell · Richard Kern · Bruce La Bruce

Synopsis Discover the New York underground scene during the 80s and throw yourself into an exciting, anarchic and repulsive world that you won't forget.

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Lydia Lunch - The War Is Never Over

2019 · Documentary · 75 min. · United States

Direction Beth B

Cast Richard Kern · Thurston Moore · Lydia Lunch · J.G. Thirlwell

Synopsis The first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry.

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She Had Her Gun All Ready

1978 · Documentary · 28 min. · United States

Direction Vivienne Dick

Cast Vivienne Dick · Lydia Lunch · Pat Place

Synopsis The sado-masochistic tale of an aggressive woman and her impassive male partner.

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Guerillere Talks

1978 · Documentary · 28 min. · United States

Direction Vivienne Dick

Cast Vivienne Dick · Adele Bertei · Lydia Lunch · Beate Nilsen

Synopsis Punk cinema and combative feminism, the subversive and radical cinema of a legendary Irish filmmaker, Vivienne Dick. This is the most emblematic film of the No Wave by Vivienne Dick, which contains 8 reels of Super 8 edited in camera...

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