Unavailable on home video for many years (except perhaps as a grainy, nth-generation VHS bootleg), Penelope Spheeris' seminal document of the young 1979-1980 Los Angeles punk scene includes chaotic live performances by now-legendary groups like Black Flag (with short-lived lead singer Ron "Chavo Pederast" Reyes), X (giving themselves stick-and-poke tattoos) and the Germs (whose unpredictable lead singer Darby Crash would commit suicide before the film's release) interwoven with talking-head interviews with teenage punks and, most entertainingly, older club owners trying very hard to describe a growing form of music they were clearly unprepared for. The footage of Fear's confrontational set would later grab the attention of John Belushi, who snagged the band a 1981 appearance on Saturday Night Live (and resulted in $20,000 in damage to the studio). - Tom Fritsche

The third (and seemingly final) installment in Penelope Spheeris' Los Angeles music trilogy, THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION III follows not the punk acts of Los Angeles from 1996-1997 but their homeless teenaged fans. Musician interviews in this DECLINE are fewer but include interesting musings from Keith Morris from the Circle Jerks and Flea (credited as the "ex-bass player of Fear"). DECLINE III lives up to its title as Spheeris explores every facet of the gutter-punk life, from their damaged upbringings (nearly all were abused or neglected as children) to the self-destructive lives they lead on society's fringe (alcoholism, homelessness and run-ins with skinheads, among others). - Tom Fritsche

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years is a documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles heavy metal scene from 1986 to 1988.

虽然和DNJ-02的战斗获胜，但由于波动炮的使用而燃料用尽的小爱，在惠美的面前，被机器人军队劫持，被大日本重工专务甲本分解身体的小爱，然后她被植入电脑病毒失忆了，另一方面，想就出小爱的惠美背负机器，单独前往大日本重工……

We are in East Berlin, 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To get a fresh start. That should be possible in the West, or so Nelly believes.

格格巫　　《西方毕竟是西方》（West Is West ）可以看作是《东方就是东方》（East Is East ，1999）的续集，虽然导演换了，但故事依然一脉相承，仍旧是通过生活在英国的巴基斯坦家庭——可汗一家家庭成员的内部矛盾，来反应东西方文化的差异和冲突。上一部的故事发生在1971年，这部的故事发生在1975年，可汗一家从索尔弗徳市搬到了英格兰北部的曼彻斯特，这部的故事主要集中在父亲——60岁的乔治·可汗和最小的儿子——15岁的Sajid身上。Sajid深受父亲的巴基斯坦传统专制和学校混混欺压两重压迫，有成为问题少年的倾向，乔治无奈，决定把他送到生活在巴基斯坦旁遮普的前妻身边，而他抛下前妻已经30多年了……

格格巫　　《西方毕竟是西方》（West Is West ）可以看作是《东方就是东方》（East Is East ，1999）的续集，虽然导演换了，但故事依然一脉相承，仍旧是通过生活在英国的巴基斯坦家庭——可汗一家家庭成员的内部矛盾，来反应东西方文化的差异和冲突。上一部的故事发生在1971年，这部的故事发生在1975年，可汗一家从索尔弗徳市搬到了英格兰北部的曼彻斯特，这部的故事主要集中在父亲——60岁的乔治·可汗和最小的儿子——15岁的Sajid身上。Sajid深受父亲的巴基斯坦传统专制和学校混混欺压两重压迫，有成为问题少年的倾向，乔治无奈，决定把他送到生活在巴基斯坦旁遮普的前妻身边，而他抛下前妻已经30多年了……

波罗的同胞著名的电影明星玛丽·玛维拉向他出示了一系列神秘的匿名信，信中要求她归还那颗美丽的钻石——“西方之星”。尽管波罗要求她退还，但玛丽还是决定保留这颗钻石，以便她能在在归亚德利夫人举办的周未晚会上在现光采。 　　与此同时，作为“星方之星”的姐妹钻石——“东方之星”的拥有者，归亚德利夫人也收到了同样的匿名信，同样，归亚德利夫人也拒绝了波罗要求替其保管钻石的提议。 　　就在专为两位贵妇人虚荣心大比拼而举行的周未晚会开幕前昔，两颗钻有利于都不翼而飞

在保加利亚的一处偏远农村，一群德国建筑工人开始了一项难度极大的施工任务。外国的土地让工人们心中的冒险意识开始觉醒，但是他们也要面对自身产生的偏见，以及由语言障碍和文化差异导致的种种误解。当工人们为了赢得当地人的认可以及信任而开始竞争时，剧情开始迅速发展。

An ecology of signs lurking amid seductive 16mm travel footage echoes with post-colonial reverberations in Ana Vaz's deceptively corrosive, award-winning Occidente