For decades, the film Sid and Nancy (released in the US as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills ) has stood as a harrowing monument to the self-destruction at the heart of the 1970s punk rock movement. Directed by Alex Cox and starring a then-unknown Gary Oldman, the film chronicles the toxic, co-dependent, and ultimately fatal relationship between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.