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Thurston Moore

Actor · 78 credits · 9 in highly-rated films

Best known for Punk: Attitude (2005)

Frequent collaborators: Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Glenn Branca, Lydia Lunch

Movies (76 total, ranked by score)

  1. Punk: Attitude

    2005 · ★ 7.0 (36 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    1

  2. Swans: Where Does a Body End?

    2019 · ★ 7.9 (14 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    2

  3. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

    2010 · ★ 7.3 (37 votes)

    Documentary

    3

  4. Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

    2019

    Music, Documentary

    4

  5. Llik Your Idols

    2007 · ★ 4.6 (5 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    5

  6. Pavement: Slow Century

    2002 · ★ 7.7 (7 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    6

  7. Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    2019 · ★ 6.8 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    7

  8. The Public Image Is Rotten

    2017 · ★ 7.4 (7 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    8

  9. The Best Summer

    2026

    Documentary, Music

    9

  10. Goo

    1991 · ★ 4.8 (5 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    10

  11. (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

    2004

    Documentary

    11

  12. Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

    2004 · ★ 7.7 (3 votes)

    Music

    12

  13. Thick Air

    2020 · ★ 6.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    13

  14. The Last Critic

    2026 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    14

  15. Uncropped

    2024 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    2019 · ★ 6.7 (9 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    16

  17. Kill Your Idols

    2004 · ★ 7.5 (13 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    17

  18. No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

    2009 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    18

  19. Cut Shorts

    2006 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    19

  20. Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

    2015 · ★ 7.0 (24 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    20

  21. Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

    2012 · ★ 2.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. I Need That Record!

    2008 · ★ 6.5 (14 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    22

  23. Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

    2021 · ★ 6.6 (17 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    23

  24. Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

    2016 · ★ 6.4 (18 votes)

    Documentary

    24

  25. Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

    2005 · ★ 4.5 (1 votes)

    Music

    25

  26. Noise

    2006 · ★ 4.8 (5 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    26

  27. Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.

    2021 · ★ 7.8 (3 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    27

  28. Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

    2024

    Documentary, Music

    28

  29. You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson

    2007 · ★ 6.4 (12 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    29

  30. Kill Your Idols: More.

    2006 · ★ 7.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.