no wave movies

Visiting Desire (1996)
4.5 / 10

Documentary

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

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985)
0 / 10

Documentary

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American...

The Way It Is (1986)
0 / 10

Comedy

A group of actors in the East Village of New York City have been rehearsing for a play when the lead actress in the play turns up dead.

Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ (1981)
4.7 / 10

Fantasy

Vortex (1982)
6.4 / 10

Thriller

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...

Only You (1981)
0 / 10

In this ostensible murder mystery, the genre elements are merely a pretext for the series of haunting (if inconclusive and only mildly erotic)...

Pesceador (1984)
0 / 10

Drama

A young artist is followed by his friend in New York. A Tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat

Ecstatic Stigmatic (1980)
7 / 10

Horror

No-Wave film directed by Gordon Stevenson from Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. Mirielle Cervenka (Exene's sister) plays a young woman named Rose who is...

Streetwalkin' Cowboy (2020)
0 / 10

Comedy, Crime, Western

A delusional man in a modern day city dresses, acts like, and has the mindset of a cowboy.

Put More Blood Into the Music (1988)
7 / 10

Documentary, Music

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...

The Trap Door (1980)
0 / 10

Drama

A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer),...

How to Fly (1981)
0 / 10

A completely nonlinear collage of unconnected scenes.

A French Cigarette (2022)
0 / 10

Comedy

Two New York poets talk about art, poetry, and smoke in this French New Wave inspired short.