10 Documentaries That Bring the Club Scene to Your Screen

by Emma Wilson

Documentaries are a leading source of entertainment, especially when people don’t get a chance to engage in clubbing or outdoor entertainment activities. One may therefore desire to get documentaries that still bring out the club or party scene.  However, not all films bring out that club scene you long for because of the vast numbers of films in the industry and the difference in how they portray partying and club culture. Therefore, below are the top documentaries that bring out the desired club scene. 

1. Vape Warz

Vape Warz is a sci-fiction movie that brings out the perfect club scene with additional vaping scenes. Its setting is in a desert, and it captures the main character, the vape queen who drives the movie. The vape queen captures an experienced vape juice maker and hires her to make a vape elixir in the movie. The movie producer tries to advertise vaping devices, juices, or products used in DAB pens like the concentrate vape pen. Furthermore, she tries to embrace the vape community and show partnerships between the culture and the vaping industries. 

If you want the thrill and your eyes glued to the screen, this is the perfect film for you, and it’ll equally enlighten you on the vaping world.

2. Party Girl

If you want a movie that has captured the club culture, this is the right film. It captures some parties and clubs in the one film and the club culture before 2000, precisely in New York. It features several legends like Lady Bunny and Drug Queen. In addition to that, it has brought out escapism through a character named Mary, who has huge debts she has to pay after getting herself in trouble with the police at a rave. 

She eventually gets head-on with an identity crisis sending her venture into new, unexpected activities. Let your screen take you on a trip through some clubhouses and parties from the comfort of your couch.

3. All These Sleepless Nights

This documentary makes you appreciate the moments you live and teaches you how to seize them. It captures the spirit of a place and the energy displayed by the youth in it. You’ll meet characters Michal and Krzysztof, who are friends who live partying around Warsaw. They give a feeling of living the moment as you tread your life despite the bittersweetness it holds.

4. Way Past Midnight

Way Past Midnight captures Jamaica’s evolving dancehall capturing a sequence of DJs, clubbers, cyclists, party organizers, skate crews, and even gear-fixers who come to life when everyone else is dead asleep. Through the eyes of a character, Danca gets the dancehall club scene experience and the Caribbean party life through this particular documentary.

5. Rave and Resistance

This South African movie offers a fantastic insight into house and techno music involvement in the ’90s. Remember, this is a moment around which the South Africans end apartheid. With the changes the country undergoes, music and dance become a bedrock for party lovers and artists from the black and white race to develop new inter-connected scenes.

6. After the Raves

If you want that club scene but still get to taste the adversity of various club or party houses around multiple cities worldwide, After The Raves provides that fulfillment. In this movie, a veteran DJ and Tommie Sunshine, characters in the film, travel across various cities to bring to you EDM, club music, and rave life since the advent of clubbing and where the club culture is headed. 

7. Sleep Comes Tomorrow

Having its setting in Paris, the film captures your feelings. It makes you understand how a new generation of ravers, DJs, promoters, and party lovers offer an alternate way of clubbing by throwing parties whenever they please. Follow the characters as they prepare to host another major event where they party all night.

8. Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore

Do you long for a feeling of having attended an exceptional party? Then this documentary is for you. It profoundly engages the club culture without having its focus on the negative aspects. Moreover, it gives you a nostalgic club feeling, making you adore your moments in clubs or parties. Did you spend a long while before getting to a club? Feel those moments from your screen and still get to feel the satisfaction from this movie.

9. Millenium Mambo

You get a view of a character by the name of Vicky, whose life has a possessive boyfriend DJ, her work at the bar, and the clubs she frequents to escape it all. She tries to find meaning under the neon lights and churns her emotions at the velocity of techno soundtracks. Understand how partying chews her but gets her closure to finding meaning in her youth.

10. Paris is Burning

This documentary is a testimony that without queer club culture, there could be no club culture at all. In addition to a club being a place for music and dance, it depicts it as a place that is a sanctuary for LQBTQ+ individuals to build international families.

Conclusion

Get a documentary film from the above high priorities movies that will bring the club scenes to your screen and leave you feeling the party energy from home. The documentaries may not provide the feeling of freedom adored by club lovers by their physical presence in the clubs, but they surely will leave you stuck to the screen for long hours.