Thurston Moore - Actor Profile

Thurston Moore

50Movies
10.0 Best Rating

Biography

Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.

Top Rated Movies

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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York (2009) movie poster
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No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York — the connections and energy flow between the various artists populating the 1980s sub-cultures of New York and Berlin. Fe

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

2009•Music
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365 Day Project (2007) movie poster
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365 Day Project — This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as

365 Day Project

2007•Documentary
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Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985 (null) movie poster
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Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985 — A video documenting Sonic Youth's performance at the Gila Monster Jamboree. Taking place in a remote location in the Moj

Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

•Music
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Desolation Center (2018) movie poster
★9.3

Desolation Center — The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that a

Desolation Center

2018•Documentary
★8.5
Uncropped (2024) movie poster
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Uncropped — A legendary Village Voice photojournalist recounts the stories behind iconic images taken over the course of a five-deca

Uncropped

2024•Documentary

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2025 Broken English Self ★ 8.0 HIT
2025 Pavements Self (uncredited) ★ 7.0 HIT
2024 Uncropped Self ★ 8.5 HIT
2024 Scala!!! Self ★ 7.8 HIT
2023 Louder Than You Think Self (archive footage) ★ 6.0 FLOP
2021 Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. himself ★ 7.8 HIT
2021 The Sparks Brothers Self ★ 7.4 HIT
2021 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Self ★ 6.7 HIT
2020 Thick Air Himself ★ 6.8 HIT
2019 Swans: Where Does a Body End? Self ★ 7.9 HIT
2019 Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over Self ★ 6.8 HIT
2019 Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine Self - Sonic Youth ★ 6.7 HIT
2018 Desolation Center - ★ 9.3 HIT
2017 Teenage Superstars Himself ★ 7.5 HIT
2017 The Public Image Is Rotten Himself ★ 7.4 HIT
2016 Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape Himself ★ 6.4 FLOP
2015 Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) Self ★ 7.0 HIT
2013 I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney - ★ 7.0 HIT
2012 The Hardcore Collection (archive footage) ★ 7.7 HIT
2011 Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard Self ★ 7.5 HIT
2011 Blank City Self ★ 7.1 HIT
2010 Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Self ★ 7.3 HIT
2009 No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York Self ★ 10.0 HIT
2009 Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB Self ★ 8.0 HIT
2009 From the Basement Self - Sonic Youth ★ 6.0 FLOP
2008 New York Rock at the BBC Self - Sonic Youth ★ 6.5 HIT
2008 I Need That Record! Himself ★ 6.5 HIT
2007 365 Day Project - ★ 10.0 HIT
2007 You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson Self ★ 6.4 FLOP
2006 Cut Shorts - ★ 8.0 HIT
2006 Kill Your Idols: More. Himself ★ 7.8 HIT
2006 The Devil and Daniel Johnston Self ★ 7.7 HIT
2005 Punk: Attitude Himself ★ 7.0 HIT
2005 Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind Self ★ 7.1 HIT
2005 We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen Self ★ 6.6 HIT
2005 Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet Self ★ 8.0 HIT
2004 Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost - ★ 5.8 FLOP
2004 Kill Your Idols Self ★ 7.3 HIT
2003 Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003) - ★ 5.0 FLOP
2002 Pavement: Slow Century Self ★ 7.7 HIT
2001 25 Years of Punk Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
1995 Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times Self ★ 6.7 HIT
1994 Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! - ★ 7.5 HIT
1994 Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos Self ★ 6.0 FLOP
1992 1991: The Year Punk Broke Self ★ 6.8 HIT
1991 Goo Self ★ 4.8 FLOP
1988 Put More Blood Into the Music Himself ★ 7.0 HIT
1986 Sublapse Video Mag 1 - ★ 8.0 HIT
1986 Submit to Me - ★ 5.1 FLOP
N/A Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985 - ★ 10.0 HIT