Flipside

I Need That Record!

May 2008 •English

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," (Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe). A tour-de-force tale of greed, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, downloading, and technological shifts in the music industry told through candid interviews, crestfallen record store owners, startling statistics, and eye-popping animation. Fat cats or our favorite record stores? You decide. Featuring- IAN MACKAYE, NOAM CHOMSKY, MIKE WATT, THURSTON MOORE, LENNY KAYE (Patti Smith), CHRIS FRANTZ (Talking Heads), GLENN BRANCA, PATTERSON HOOD (Drive By Truckers), PAT CARNEY (Black Keys) , LEGS MCNEIL, BOB GRUEN, BP HELIUM, and many indie record stores across the U.S.

Sound It Out

November 2011 •English

A portrait of the last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England, at a time when independent record shops were closing in the UK at a rate of one every three days. A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives. High Fidelity with a Northern Accent.

It Came From Aquarius Records

June 2022 •English

IT CAME FROM AQUARIUS RECORDS tells the story about the San Francisco based independent record store, Aquarius Records. Having closed in 2016 after 47 years, this small apartment-sized store championed local, underground, independent, and challenging music to the masses - most memorably with their infamous bi-weekly, college essay-length, new-release lists. Six years in the making, interviewing collectors, musicians, and store owners, the film has a very personal angle, with lots of behind-the-scenes footage (and drama) that shows both the joy and excruciating stress that comes with running — and closing — a store like this, helped in no part by the changing city around them.

Beyond the Noise.

December 2023 •English

An exploration into the benefits of music in uk youth culture. Understanding the comfort it can provide.

Alt & Neu: Life Inside A Scene

April 2025 •English

Documentary glimpses from Alt & Neu (Teuchtler) record store, where love for cinema and music unite vinyl collectors and tourists in the 6th district of Vienna. 30 years after the release of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, the family-owned business remains one of the movie's most visited locations. The Teuchtler family shares how they feel about it — and reflects on the legacy of that one Trilogy scene.

High Fidelity

March 2000 •English

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".

Christmas Bloody Christmas

December 2022 •English

It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.

The Golden Disc

March 1958 •English

The Lucky Charm coffee shop adds a recording studio and record shop.

Pretty in Pink

February 1986 •English

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.

Empire Records

September 1995 •English

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.

Wristcutters: A Love Story

October 2007 •English

Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.

The Spin

November 2024 •English

A struggling record store owner travels down south to Cork with his best friend in a bid to save his shop from closure.

Uuno Turhapuro

August 1973 •Finnish

Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.

The Madness in the Grooves

October 2022 •English

Small town record store owner Clark finds himself losing his grip on reality when a mysterious record opens his eyes up to an ancient evil beyond human comprehension.

A Wife's Nightmare

December 2014 •English

Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.

Burning Annie

February 2007 •English

Romantic-comedy about a college student obsessed with "Annie Hall" who is just shaking off his addiction when he meets the modern version of Annie herself.

Tutti giù per terra

April 1997 •Italian

Having just moved back in with his working-class parents, twentysomething on-and-off philosophy undergrad Walter navigates turn-of-the-millennium Turin and Gen-X ennui.

Silent Introduction

June 2024 •English

A pretentious record store clerk must defend her music taste after a finance bro tries to purchase a rare used record.

Namas Dei: The Tucker J. James Story

September 2025 •English

A clueless wannabe movie star moves to LA and goes viral for all the wrong reasons, only to evolve into a slightly less terrible version of himself. #blessed

Twelve Conversations

November 2018 •Italian