List of films related to skinheads

The list of films related to skinheads features films in reverse chronological order in which skinheads and other youth cultures characterized by close-cropped hair are the subject or major contributor.

In particular, the violent and neo-Nazis among the skinheads are often the subject of films

Feature films

• National road ( Národní trída , / Czech Republic / Germany 2019); Director: Štěpán Altrichter , with Hynek Čermák , Jan Cina , Kateřina Janečková u. a. - The right skinhead Vandam falls in love with the indebted bartender Lucy and makes it his business to solve her money problems.
• In My Skin ( Farming , United Kingdom 2018); Director: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , with Damson Idris , Kate Beckinsale , John Dagleish a . a. - Despite his dark complexion, teenage Enitan becomes a feared leader of a right-wing skinhead gang amid the social and racist violence of the 1980s.
• Skin ( USA 2018); Director: Guy Nattiv , with Jamie Bell , Danielle Macdonald , Vera Farmiga u. a. - The film, based on real events, tells the story of Bryon Widner trying to get out of the right-wing scene.
• Empire ( USA 2016); Director: Daniel Ragussis , with Daniel Radcliffe , Toni Collette , Tracy Letts a . a. - FBI agent Nate Foster infiltrates neo-Nazi organizations - disguised as a skinhead - in order to prevent a possible terrorist attack.
• Green Room ( USA 2015); Director: Jeremy Saulnier , with Alia Shawkat , Imogen Poots , Anton Yelchin , Patrick Stewart a . a. - In the horror film, a punk band gets into a fight with a neo-Nazi gang in a rocker bar, resulting in criminally relevant follow-up events.
• French Blood ( Un Français , France 2015); Director: Diastème , with Alban Lenoir , Samuel Jouy , Paul Hamy a . a. - A leading neo-Nazi and skinhead tries to get out of the right-wing scene.
• Scorpion - Brother. Skinhead. Fighter. ( Alacrán Enamorado , Spain 2012); Director: Santiago Zannou , with Álex González , Miguel Ángel Silvestre , Carlos Bardem a . a. - When the young skinhead and amateur boxer Scorpion met a Latin American immigrant, his right-wing view of the world began to shake more and more.
• Kriegerin ( Germany 2011); Director: David Wnendt , with Alina Levshin , Jella Haase , Gerdy Zint a . a. - In a small town in East Germany, the worldview of a radical young neo-Nazi skinhead woman is shaken after she comes into conflict with two young asylum seekers.
• Gangs of Glasgow ( Neds , UK 2010); Director: Peter Mullan , with Conor McCarron , Greg Forrest , Joe Szula a . a. - After moving to a secondary school , a hard-working student in Glasgow in the early 1970s gets sucked into a violent gang of young people in which he finds a balance to his strict family.
• Skinning ( Serbia 2010); Director: Stevan Filipović , with Nikola Rakočević , Viktor Savić , Bojana Novaković a . a. - A young man climbs up in a violent group of Naziskins in Belgrade and gets caught between the fronts of the police, the underworld and the Sinti and Roma.
• Skinheads 88 ( Rossiya 88 , Russia 2009); Director: Pawel Bardin , with Michael Poljakow , Artschibald Artschibaldowitsch , Andrei Merslikin u. a. - Pseudo-documentary film about a violent neo-Nazi gang in Moscow.
• Brotherhood ( Broderskab , Denmark 2009); Director: Nicolo Donato , with Thure Lindhardt , David Dencik , Nicolas Bro a . a. - Image-intensive story of a homosexual love affair in a neo-Nazi milieu.
• Skin - hatred was his way out ( Skin , Netherlands 2008); Director: Hanro Smitsman , with Robert de Hoog , John Buijsman , Sylvia Poorta a . a. - In 1979 a youngster whose father is a Jewish concentration camp survivor comes under the influence of neo-Nazi skinheads.
• This Is England ( UK 2006); Director: Shane Meadows , with Thomas Turgoose , Stephen Graham , Jo Hartley u. a. - Young people of the working class in the difficult Thatcher years try to assert themselves as non-racist skinheads despite their lack of prospects and the social shift to the right. The four-part television series This Is England '86 followed on from the film.
• Steel caps ( Steel Toes , Canada 2006); Director: David Gow , with David Strathairn , Andrew Walker , Marina Orsini a . a. - A committed public defender takes over the case of a violent neo-Nazi.
• Kombat Sixteen ( Germany 2005); Director: Mirko Borscht , with Florian Bartholomäi , Ludwig Trepte , Maximilian Mauff a . a. - Drama about the slip of a young person with no perspective into the violent neo-Nazi scene and his possibilities of getting out again.
• Adam's apples ( Adams æbler , Denmark 2005); Director: Anders Thomas Jensen , with Ulrich Thomsen , Mads Mikkelsen , Paprika Steen a . a. - An aggressive neo-Nazi comes to rehabilitation in a rural group of a village pastor who looks after the most diverse human problem cases with idiosyncratic methods. Grotesque comedy.
• Desolation - 16 Years of Alcohol ( 16 Years of Alcohol , United Kingdom 2003); Director: Richard Jobson , with Kevin McKidd , Laura Fraser , Susan Lynch a . a. - Film by the former skinhead and The Skids musician about a violent, intelligent skinhead and his transformation through two female relationships.
• Inside a Skinhead ( The Believer , USA 2001); Director: Henry Bean , with Ryan Gosling , Summer Phoenix , Billy Zane a . a. - Drama about an intelligent young man, his violence, his neo-Nazi extremist ideas, and his Jewish identity.

Sandra Borgmann filming Oi! Warning

While filming Oi! Warning

• Oi! Warning ( Germany 2000); Directors: Benjamin Reding , Dominik Reding , with Sascha Backhaus , Simon Goerts , Sandra Borgmann a . a. - Drama between directionless young adult skinheads and punks.
• American History X ( USA 1998); Director: Tony Kaye , with Edward Norton , Edward Furlong , Beverly D'Angelo a . a. - A staunch neo-Nazi returns to his group after a prison experience.
• Social Outcasts - Violence Is Their Law ( Skinheads vs. Hooligans , originally titled Pariah , 1998); Director: Randolph Kret , with Damon Jones , Dave Oren Ward , Angela Jones and others a. - When his black girlfriend is raped by Naziskins and then kills himself, Steve forges plans for revenge and sneaks into the violent group.
• Dazlak - Skinhead ( 1997); Director: Helke Sander , with Florian Lukas , Jenny Schlenzka , Komi Mizrajim Togbonou a . a. - In this road movie, a young actress, a skinhead and an Afro-German travel together in an open car through Germany.
• The Infiltrator (also: Skinhead Attacke , original title The Infiltrator , USA 1995); Director: John Mackenzie , with Oliver Platt , Arliss Howard , Tony Haygarth a . a. - An Israeli journalist travels to Berlin to report on the latest right-wing extremist attacks. On site, he met a group of right-wing skinheads and neo-Nazis who gave him access to the leadership team (believing he was a sympathizer).
• The Bomb is Ticking ( 1993); Director: Thorsten Näter , with Wilfried Dziallas , Peter Ebert , Julia Grimpe u. a. - Drama about a Nazi gang in Germany after reunification.
• Luna Park ( Луна-парк , / Russia / France 1992); Director: Pawel Lungin , with Oleg Borissow , Andrei Gutin , Nonna Mordjukowa a . a. - The leader of an anti-Semitic skinhead gang in Soviet Russia discovers his Jewish roots and becomes the hunted himself.
• Romper Stomper ( Australia 1992); Directed by Geoffrey Wright , with Russell Crowe , Jacqueline McKenzie , Daniel Pollock a . a. - A violent racist skinhead gang comes to a tragic end between a defending immigrant group, the intervening police, and the internal search for direction and rivalry after the appearance of a woman in the group.
• Skinhead - The Second Coming of Hate ( Skinheads , USA 1989); Director: Greydon Clark , with Chuck Connors , Barbara Bain , Jason Culp u. a. - Fascist skinheads stalk a couple who witnessed gang killings, leaving a trail of violence.
• Queen City Rocker ( New Zealand 1986); Directed by Bruce Morrison , with Matthew Hunter , Mark Pilisi , Kim Willoughby a . a. - The petty criminal gang around Skinhead Ska is increasingly coming into conflict with stronger forces.
• Meantime ( United Kingdom 1984); Director: Mike Leigh , with Marion Bailey , Tim Roth , Gary Oldman , Alfred Molina u. a. - In the increasingly hopeless working-class milieu of London's East End at the beginning of the 1980s, family conflicts increase when some helpless young people seek freedom as skinheads.
• Suburbia - Suburbia Rebels ( Suburbia , USA 1983); Director: Penelope Spheeris , with Chris Pedersen , Jennifer Clay , Flea u. a. - On the outskirts of an American city, skins and punks live in an old house in a kind of rough extended family outside the majority society until fate haunts the fragile community.
• Made in Britain ( United Kingdom 1982); Directed by Alan Clarke , with Tim Roth , Terry Richards a . a. - In his first feature film , Tim Roth portrays the angry, intelligent and indomitable, at the same time directionless skinhead Trevor, who cannot be broken even by the police, judges and social workers.
• Oi for England ( United Kingdom 1982); Director: Tony Smith , with Adam Kotz , Neal Pearson , Richard Platt a . a. - TV film about a band supposed to play a concert for a right-wing organization in the climate of the race unrest in Manchester in 1981.
• Rude Boy ( United Kingdom 1980); Directed by Jack Hazan , David Mingay , with The Clash , Ray Gange - A skinhead accompanies the band The Clash.
• The Wanderers ( USA 1979); Director: Philip Kaufman , with Ken Wahl , Karen Allen , Erland van Lidth a . a. - In addition to the Wanderers, a number of other youth gangs also try to assert themselves in the harsh reality outside of the American dream, including the bald gangs around Terror and Peewee.
• Bronco Bullfrog ( United Kingdom 1970); Directed by Barney Platts-Mills , with Del Walker , Anne Gooding and Sam Shepherd - In the East End of London, teenagers team up to form a group that is slowly changing from skinheads to southern heads.
• The Bald Gang ( GDR 1963); Director: Richard Groschopp , with Ulrich Thein , Erik S. Klein , Thomas Weisgerber u. a. - At the end of August 1961, the bald gang aroused the displeasure of the vacationers in the Baltic Sea resort of Bansin , until the state organs gradually arrested all the rioters.

Documentation

• Blood must flow. Undercover among the Nazis ( Germany 2012); Director: Peter Ohlendorf - The journalist Thomas Kuban gains access to right-wing rock concerts in Germany and Europe (with mostly skinhead audiences) and films them with a hidden camera.
• Thank you! Skinhead Girl ( UK 2009); Director: Sharon Woodward - The director uses her personal story to show how the cohesion of her traditionally oriented skinhead group helped her through a difficult youth from the end of the 70s.
• Skinhead Cross Culture ( USA 2009); Director: Bryan Davis - Documentation of the international, traditionally oriented skinhead scene, apart from right-wing extremists or other politically motivated currents.
• Oi! Skins in Beijing ( Germany 2006); Director: Max Celko , Heike Scharrer - Documentation of the skinhead and punk scene in China based on the group MiSanDao from Beijing.
• Men, heroes, gay Nazis ( Germany 2005); Director: Rosa von Praunheim - Documentation about gays in the Third Reich and in today's neo-Nazi and Naziskins scene.
• White Terror ( / / / 2005); Director: Daniel Schweizer - Documentary about the global White Power and Naziskin movement.
• Gay Skinheads ( Ireland 2003); Director: Karl Hayden - Portrait of the gay skinhead scene and its internal and external conflicts.
• Skinhead Attitude ( / / Switzerland / France / Germany 2003); Director: Daniel Schweizer - The film accompanies a French skinhead girl on a trip to see skinheads in European and North American cities, where she attends concerts with other anti-racist skinheads and gets to know the local scene.
• Skin or Die ( Switzerland 1998); Director: Daniel Schweizer - The director portrays a group of neo-Nazi Hammerskins in Switzerland.
• Skinheads ( Germany 1996); Director: Klaus Farin , Rainer Fromm - portrait of the skinhead scene, its social life, its origins and its various currents.
• Sharp bald heads ( Germany 1993); Director: Claudia Rhein , Manuel Zimmer - Portrait of the non-racist skinhead scene based on some of its representatives and their lives inside and outside the scene.

TV reports (selection)

• This Is England '86 ( UK 2010); Four-part series on British television station Channel 4 , following on from the feature film This Is England .
• Sounds of Underground London ( UK 2003); ITV 1 TV series on 50 years of youth subcultures in England, with a full episode on skinheads.
• World of Skinhead ( United Kingdom 1995); BBC television documentary series on the origins and distribution of skinheads.
• Just in case, Fitz ( United Kingdom 1994); In the episode "Kalte Rache" (original title: To be a somebody), the criminal psychologist deals with an unemployed working class man who disguises himself as a racist, violent skinhead.
• Clear cutting ( Germany 1993); Director: Hanno Brühl - After being attacked by a group of Turks, a frustrated 16-year-old football fan mutates into a right-wing skinhead in this TV thriller produced by WDR .
• Crime scene: Full of hatred ( Germany 1987); This episode of the Tatort TV crime series deals with the murder of a group of skinheads on the son of a restaurateur.

See also

• Skinhead