B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989

If you can remember the 80's, you weren't there!

Directed by Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange

Produced by Scenes From, DEF Media

201594 min7.7 / 10

A vibrant documentary celebration of West Berlin's anarchic 1980s underground scene, where creative freedom and subcultural energy thrived in the shadow of geopolitical division.

The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.

Questions people ask

  • Does B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 67% of films.

  • Is B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Is B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.

  • Is B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

88/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

There is almost nothing else like this.

Rarity91

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Surprise81

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love93

How much audiences actually like it

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