Patti Smith Movies

An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

On October 29th and 30th, 2009, rock 'n' roll royalty held court at Madison Square Garden for what have been called 'the best concerts ever,' and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tom Hanks

A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Weller

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Catherine Tanvier

Patti Smith was one of the key artists in the breakthrough of New York City punk rock with her 1975 album "Horses" being hugely influential on the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Patti Smith

New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services. There was a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Afrika Bambaataa

A concert inspired by the Coen Brothers' film, 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' which is set in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, featuring live...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oscar Isaac

Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin...

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Cast: Benjamin Dickerson

A MusiCares Tribute to Bruce Springsteen is a concert video set to be released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download on March 25, 2014. It was filmed...

Genre: Music

Cast: Elton John

Robert Mapplethorpe gets his nipple pierced while his boyfriend lends his support in person. Patti Smith lends her support via voice over as she...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Croland

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

In View: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988–2003 is a DVD featuring videos by the rock band R.E.M. during 1988–2003, released as a companion to the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Stipe

Music Video Distributors has been releasing the best in punk rock music videos for years. In compiling WHAT THE PUNK?!, the music experts over at MVD...

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Cast: GG Allin

Legendary former Beach Boy, Brian Wilson toured America and Japan with a 10 piece band. Here he is captured performing 24 live tracks, and one that...

Genre: Music

Cast: Brian Wilson

Arista's greatest recording artists of the last 25 years gather for this May 15th concert in honor of the record label's 25th anniversary. The highly...

Genre: Music

Cast: Toni Braxton

In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryan Gosling

An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William S. Burroughs

The ninety-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bruce Springsteen

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Mapplethorpe

The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Byrne

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gregory Corso

All Tomorrow's Parties is a 2009 documentary film directed by All Tomorrow's People and Jonathan Caouette covering the history of the long running...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jarvis Cocker

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patti Smith

Annoyed by the responsibility of being an older brother to Dil, Tommy sets out with Chuckie, Phil, and Lil to return his baby brother to the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: C. A. Conrad

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Cast: Kurt Cobain

Documentary about rock pioneer Roky Erickson, detailing his rise as a psychedelic hero, his lengthy institutionalization, his descent into poverty...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roky Erickson

Collecting highlights from the debut season of the acclaimed PBS series "Sessions at West 54th," this compilation video captures performances by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Emmylou Harris

Patti Smith's final concerts at the Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of her album "Horses".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

A career-spanning 1979 concert by Patti Smith and her band from Essen, Germany and broadcast on WDR's Rockpalast. Bonus interview after the concert.

Genre: Music

Cast: Patti Smith

A short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote. We take a walk in her changing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

The life and successes of iconic music executive Clive Davis, from his miraculous start at Columbia Records through his trailblazing work at Arista...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clive Davis

Short film by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. A portrait of Patti Smith.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Lynch

Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Billie Joe Armstrong

This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavor The Blank Generation (1976) came to be....

Genre: Music

Cast: David Bowie

Retrospective look at the life and music of Jeff Buckley through the eyes of family, friends, and fans.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeff Buckley

A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elvis Costello

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Dylan

Compilation celebrating some guitar band performances at the BBC that feature some of the best female musicians in rock. Beginning with the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chrissie Hynde

An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down. Some of the most iconic figures in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dicky Barrett

Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock band - the Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed. Cale...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Cale

Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dan Graham

The 200-year-old story of Milan’s illustrious opera house, La Scala, home to the great tenor Placido Domingo, conductor Arturo Toscanini and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mario Botta

In this 1995 made-for television biopic, see legendary musician and filmmaker Ivan Kral as he made music history. With guitar and camera in the 70s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ivan Král

An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Annie Leibovitz

When Howard Brookner lost his life to AIDS in 1989, the 35-year-old director had completed two feature documentaries and was in post-production on...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Howard Brookner

A documentary that shows how young activists from around the globe such as Felix Finkbeiner (Plant for the Planet), Luisa Neubauer, Greta Thunberg...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marcella Hansch

Born in 1941, Eric Burdon was – along with his band The Animals – one of the most important standard-bearers of the British Invasion of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Eric Burdon

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wim Wenders

Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Johnny Ramone

Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jon Favreau

This 2-DVD set captures explosive live performances and revealing interviews on DVD for the first time ever from the forefathers of the punk and new...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tom Snyder

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

The amazing untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM set against the profound social, political and cultural changes of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Bowie

Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors inductees: Tina Turner,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dave Grohl

Part of "The Women in Music" series

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Melissa Auf der Maur

At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

Concert film and interview from Patti Smith Group's 1976 visit to Stockholm shot for Swedish television.

Genre: Music

Cast: Patti Smith

A Pilot For A Documentary Film About The Life In The Chelsea Hotel In The Early 1970s, That Was Never Made Because Of Budget Reasons. "A Regrettable...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Werner Herzog

An immersive journey through the cosmos, its origins and its songs.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Millie Bobby Brown

Genre: Music

Cast: Bono

Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith

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Cast: Patti Smith

Now well into his eighties, Delsener shows little sign of slowing down. At one point, the camera follows him as he ping-pongs across New York...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ron Delsener

Two impressions of New York - a city of dreams or nightmares. The Outsider: Jonathan Miller 'If you enter New York in the first place in a show...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

"One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur" examines Jack Kerouac's escape from post "On The Road" fame to his dream of an isolated retreat in a...

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Cast: Jay Farrar

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Raimund Abraham

This is a look into the darkest corners of the BBC’s music archives for a reminder of songs by the likes of The Las, The Mock Turtles, Joan...

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Cast: Kim Carnes

Abel Ferrara explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and words of Patti Smith and the experiences of people at...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patti Smith

The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Damien Echols