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Jubilee

Derek Jarman's 1978 film Jubilee is the greatest punk rock film ever made. Repo Man is great, but it's punk rock content filmed Hollywood style. Jubilee is punk rock content filmed punk rock style. Suburbia is a fantastic slice-of-punk-life, but it's much more mundane than Jubilee.

Jubilee features an amazing cast of up-and-coming people from the early British punk rock scene (plus at least one important New Yorker).

Legendary NY transvestite early punk rocker Jayne County

Adam Ant

Nell Campbell of Rocky Horror Picture Show tap-dancing fame, among other things.

Toyah Wilcox who also played Monkey, the only sympathetic character in Quadrophenia

and had a weird pop career. Sort of the low-budget Nina Hagen.