Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker, whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating independently of major labels and distributors.

  • Title: Lydia Lunch
  • Popularity: 3.385
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1959-06-02
  • Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
  • Homepage: http://lydia-lunch.net
  • Also Known As: Lydia Anne Koch
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Lydia Lunch Movies

  • 2004
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    Kill Your Idols

    Kill Your Idols

    7.4 2004 HD

    A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from the genuine authenticity of No Wave to the current...

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  • 2001
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    Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock

    Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock

    1 2001 HD

    Part of "The Women in Music" series

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  • 1997
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    Lunch on Kern

    Lunch on Kern

    1 1997 HD

    Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid

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  • 1982
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    Vortex

    Vortex

    6.4 1982 HD

    A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate...

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  • 1984
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    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    4.9 1984 HD

    Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern's first collaborative effort, The Right Side of My Brain, is a glimpse into the world of unsatiable female lust,...

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  • 1986
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    Fingered

    Fingered

    5.5 1986 HD

    One of Richard Kern’s most ambitious works is Fingered (1986), whose sarcastic disclaimer says “although it is not our sole intention to...

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  • 2010
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    Fake Orgasm

    Fake Orgasm

    6 2010 HD

    Lazlo Pearlman is a conceptual artist, an activist capable of dinamiting our prejudices about sex and identity. What it seems to be a reflexion about...

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  • 2009
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    Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

    Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

    5 2009 HD

    Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA,...

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  • 1983
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    The Wild World of Lydia Lunch

    The Wild World of Lydia Lunch

    3.3 1983 HD

    Shot entirely in Ireland and England on film stolen by Nick Zedd, the movie offers a rare glimpse into the unique private world of Lydia Lunch; The...

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  • 2009
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    No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

    No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

    10 2009 HD

    the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Features Jim Jarmusch, Lydia...

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  • 1991
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    Thanatopsis

    Thanatopsis

    1 1991 HD

    Beth B, in collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism...

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  • 2006
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    Kill Your Idols: More.

    Kill Your Idols: More.

    7.75 2006 HD

    A full-length feature documentary produced in 2006 which serves as a companion piece to and is included on the DVD of the 2004 film KILL YOUR IDOLS.

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  • 1990
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    Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

    Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

    5 1990 HD

    Punk icons Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins star in this cult drama about a pregnant pianist named Hedda whose marriage to husband Neal (Don Bajema)...

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  • 2007
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    Llik Your Idols

    Llik Your Idols

    4.6 2007 HD

    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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  • 1978
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    She Had Her Gun All Ready

    She Had Her Gun All Ready

    8.2 1978 HD

    Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film...

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  • 2012
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    The Hardcore Collection

    The Hardcore Collection

    7.7 2012 HD

    This DVD features 13 provocative short films by Richard Kern. Color & B&W film shorts with Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins and more. Includes Death Valley...

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  • 2012
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    Wild Thing

    Wild Thing

    1 2012 HD

    A documentary about The Troggs (performers of Wild Thing) and other Rock bands.

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  • 1982
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    DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

    DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

    10 1982 HD

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  • 1986
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    Death Valley '69

    Death Valley '69

    1 1986 HD

    Death Valley '69 was the first music video by Sonic Youth. The video features the majority of the band in various states of bloody dismemberment...

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  • 1979
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    Beauty Becomes the Beast

    Beauty Becomes the Beast

    7 1979 HD

    Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful...

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  • 1980
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    Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

    Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

    1 1980 HD

    A noir mostly set in a bathroom stall and stairwell. A private dick trapped in a tight spot. A narrator searching for a way out of the story.

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  • 1980
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    The Offenders

    The Offenders

    1 1980 HD

    A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.

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  • 1993
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    No Age New York

    No Age New York

    7 1993 HD

    A scattershot documentary about punk rock film makers in New York, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Richard Kern, Beth B, Nick...

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  • 1996
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    Visiting Desire

    Visiting Desire

    4.5 1996 HD

    Complete strangers meet in a room to act out their sexual desires.

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  • 1994
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    Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

    Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

    1 1994 HD

    Collection of live spoken word performances by Lydia Lunch.

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  • 1978
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    Rome '78

    Rome '78

    6.4 1978 HD

    Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse...

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  • 1986
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    Submit to Me

    Submit to Me

    5.3 1986 HD

    Cinema of Transgression pioneers and participants (Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, Nick Zedd, etc.) perform a series of acts as they submit to director...

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  • 1997
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    Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

    Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

    1 1997 HD

    Haxan Films-produced documentary on Richard Kern's work around 1997. Footage from his photo sessions, interviews with Kern and his models, etc....

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  • 1983
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    Like Dawn to Dust

    Like Dawn to Dust

    8 1983 HD

    Lydia Lunch laments the difficulty of relationships in the wilds of Connemara, Ireland.

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  • 1987
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    Submit to Me Now

    Submit to Me Now

    4.6 1987 HD

    Oddballs dancing, leering at camera, guy shaving a nontraditional part of his body and man ripping his own throat out, woman stabbing herself to...

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  • 2011
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    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

    7.5 2011 HD

    From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula....

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  • 2001
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    Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

    Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

    8 2001 HD

    THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and...

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  • 1978
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    Guerillere Talks

    Guerillere Talks

    7.2 1978 HD

    This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage...

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  • 2010
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    Godkiller: Walk Among Us

    Godkiller: Walk Among Us

    5.4 2010 HD

    Even in a postapocalyptic future in which Earth has been colonized by aliens, humans need hearts to live, so when an orphan boy's sister needs a new...

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  • 1989
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    The Gun Is Loaded

    The Gun Is Loaded

    4.2 1989 HD

    At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the...

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  • 1979
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    Black Box

    Black Box

    5 1979 HD

    A man is tortured by his girlfriend and then locked inside a black box.

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  • 1986
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    Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

    Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

    7 1986 HD

    Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher.

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  • 2012
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    Bye Bye Blondie

    Bye Bye Blondie

    5.6 2012 HD

    A love story of two women who meet up in their late forties and attempt to retrieve the romance they had in their youth.

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  • 1988
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    Mondo New York

    Mondo New York

    5.1 1988 HD

    A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of...

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  • 2009
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    NYC Foetus

    NYC Foetus

    1 2009 HD

    A documentary about composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell and his musical alter-egos, including Foetus, Steroid Maximus and Manorexia. Featuring...

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  • 2009
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    For the End of Time

    For the End of Time

    1 2009 HD

    For the End of Time is a film about the mind… a film about the body and our inability to merge these two entities which are shaping a form of...

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  • 1988
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    Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

    7 1988 HD

    PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

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  • 2017
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    L7: Pretend We're Dead

    L7: Pretend We're Dead

    6.923 2017 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    Blank City

    Blank City

    7 2011 HD

    In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

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  • 2008
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    Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

    Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

    1 2008 HD

    This fascinating and retrospective look at the music of the outspoken and multitalented Lydia Lunch represents every stage of her varied career, with...

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  • 1981
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    Subway Riders

    Subway Riders

    6.5 1981 HD

    A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.

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  • 1996
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    Baby Trouble Hole

    Baby Trouble Hole

    1 1996 HD

    Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced with maggots; mixes x-rated porn. Voyeuristically...

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  • 2008
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    Death of the Reel

    Death of the Reel

    1 2008 HD

    Guy Maddin flies to Kansas City, Missouri, in a vain attempt to save cinema as it continues to die from contempt and neglect.

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  • 2010
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    Flood Stains

    Flood Stains

    1 2010 HD

    Renowned artist Lydia Lunch joins architect Juan Azulay in an experimental performance broadcast live from the SCI-Arc Gallery.

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  • 2014
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    Kill Us All

    Kill Us All

    1 2014 HD

    Poetic seductress Lydia Lunch describes the destructive nature of a broken human before partaking in physical abuse of grown men with her younger...

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  • 1987
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    Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

    Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

    6.3 1987 HD

    Penn Jillette and Teller are called upon to display their unique brand of humor to save civilization from strange extraterrestrial beings who have...

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  • 2004
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    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

    5.8 2004 HD

    Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah...

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  • 2014
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    The Circular Ruins

    The Circular Ruins

    1 2014 HD

    Six days of shooting through the desert deathscape, Mojave motels with bug blankets and bone white rocks, future retro Reno motels with pink light...

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  • 2005
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    American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis

    American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis

    1 2005 HD

    Cam Archer revisits the life of child actor Jonathan Brandis who committed suicide in 2003. Lydia Lunch narrates this meditation on fame, the...

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  • 1984
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    School of Shame

    School of Shame

    1 1984 HD

    The film starts off with an eight minute concert sequence shot in the summer of '84 at a club called Eight BC in NYC. The band consists of Lydia...

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  • 2002
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    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

    4.7 2002 HD

    This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...

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  • 1989
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    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

    Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

    5 1989 HD

    Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility...

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  • 1978
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    Punking Out

    Punking Out

    6 1978 HD

    The film 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...

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  • 2019
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    Spit and Ashes

    Spit and Ashes

    4 2019 HD

    Spit and Ashes is a reimagining of the historical violence waged against women by patriarchal forces in the name of religion, medicine and family....

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  • 2019
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    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    7 2019 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends

    Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends

    6.6 1987 HD

    Penn & Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends is a straight-to-video release by magicians Penn & Teller on Lorimar Home Video in 1987. The...

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  • 2020
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    My Lover The Killer

    My Lover The Killer

    1 2020 HD

    My Lover the Killer is the former title of the album by Lydia Lunch & Marc Hurtado released in 2016. The music, first languorous then abrasive,...

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  • 2006
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    Her Noise - The Making Of

    Her Noise - The Making Of

    1 2006 HD

    Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her...

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  • 1994
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    Die Haut - Sweat

    Die Haut - Sweat

    1 1994 HD

    Die Haut filmed live at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992. Featuring guest vocalists Alexander Hacke, Anita Lane, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers,...

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  • 1979
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    No New York Festival - Berlin

    No New York Festival - Berlin

    1 1979 HD

    The "No New York Festival" on a tour of Europe. This concert is at SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin, where a sprawling variety of bands and musicians related...

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  • 1979
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    Alien Portrait

    Alien Portrait

    1 1979 HD

    Filmed at CBGB’s, New York City at a Teenage Jesus & The Jerks concert on January 13th, 1978. The film shows the band members’ heads in...

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  • 2008
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    Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls

    Post-Apocalyptic Cowgirls

    4 2008 HD

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  • 1994
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    Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

    Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

    1 1994 HD

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  • 2015
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    Disturbtion

    Disturbtion

    1 2015 HD

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  • 1986
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    Fingered

    Fingered

    5.5 1986 HD

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  • 1986
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    Fingered

    Fingered

    5.5 1986 HD

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  • 1983
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    Goodbye 42nd Street

    Goodbye 42nd Street

    5 1983 HD

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  • 1991
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    Thanatopsis

    Thanatopsis

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1982
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    Vortex

    Vortex

    6.4 1982 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Return of Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls

    The Return of Post Apocalyptic Cowgirls

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2010
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    Flood Stains

    Flood Stains

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2003
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    Us

    Us

    2 2003 HD

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  • 2014
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    Kill Us All

    Kill Us All

    1 2014 HD

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  • 2010
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    Flood Stains

    Flood Stains

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2008
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    Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

    Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1984
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    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    4.9 1984 HD

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  • 2014
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    Kill Us All

    Kill Us All

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1984
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    The Right Side of My Brain

    The Right Side of My Brain

    4.9 1984 HD

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  • 2014
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    Kill Us All

    Kill Us All

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1989
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    The Gun Is Loaded

    The Gun Is Loaded

    4.2 1989 HD

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  • 1990
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    Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

    Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

    5 1990 HD

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  • 2009
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    Unfaithful

    Unfaithful

    4.6 2009 HD

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  • 2020
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    My Lover The Killer

    My Lover The Killer

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2020
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    70 Years of Youth Revolt

    70 Years of Youth Revolt

    7.3 2020 HD

    A look back at the social movements, revolts and youth subcultures from the post-war period to the present day: after the World War II, the left-bank...

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  • 2016
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    The Ripple Effect

    The Ripple Effect

    1 2016 HD

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