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Most Popular Penny Arcade Trailers

Total trailers found: 21

Beautiful Darling Trailer (2010)

02 April 2010

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.

Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC Trailer (2023)

10 March 2023

Documentary about the legendary nightclub Max's Kansas City and the New York Rock Scene of the 70s.

Sadness at Leaving Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Following the erection of the Berlin wall, special agent Carl Halman is assigned by East German intelligence to move to New York where he’ll “sleep” as a writer until he is called.

Fragments of Paradise Trailer (2022)

31 August 2022

For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films.

Andy Warhol's America Trailer (2022)

06 January 2022

A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through the legendary artist's eyes.

Excavating Taylor Mead Trailer (2005)

08 October 2005

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

Resident Alien Trailer (1990)

14 September 1990

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York.

This Side of Heaven Trailer (2016)

27 October 2016

V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.

Personality Crisis: One Night Only Trailer (2022)

12 October 2022

A portrait of musician David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi featuring a live performance at Café Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Buster Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival interviews.

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis Trailer (2004)

05 May 2004

Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the street.

I Was on Mars Trailer (1991)

01 October 1991

Silva fulfills herself a dream: from Poland she flies to USA. With only a few hundred dollars she arrives in New York, incapable of the language.

Scumbag Trailer (2017)

18 March 2017

A young hipster wannabe-superstar dj, Phil, takes on a day job at a telemarketing company, working with crazy people, ex-prisoners, drug addicts and murderers.

The Big Johnson Trailer (2025)

20 February 2025

Dean Johnson, drag queen, rock star, LGBTQI activist, junkie, genius, escort then John Doe. How does someone so famous in New York die as an unknown in DC? This documentary explores the incredible highs and the crushing lows of Dean Johnson’s life and untimely death.

Women in Revolt Trailer (1971)

01 December 1971

Candy is an aloof heiress caught in an unhappy relationship with her brother. Jackie is a virginal intellectual who believes women are oppressed in contemporary American society.

NYC, 1981 Trailer (2015)

29 January 2015

A24 and A MOST VIOLENT YEAR present NYC, 1981. An original short documentary featuring stories from one of the most dangerous years on record for New York City.

The Stolen Moments of September Trailer (2007)

30 June 2007

September, a young runaway, is caught up in a dark world of prostitution and murder. She befriends a stranger who is the number one suspect of a series of murders.

The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

Quentin Crisp was a writer, raconteur, social rebel, and "professional being". He was nearly 91 when he died of heart failure in 1999, and his death powerfully affected those who loved him.

Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia Trailer (2023)

28 September 2023

Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the shores of the Lower East Side of New York as a teenager in 1967.

The Book of Conrad Trailer (2016)

12 July 2016

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his boyfriend, Earth.

Jack Smith's Apartment Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Film of Jack Smith's apartment starring Penny Arcade before it was reposed by the "evil landlords."