| Green Room (2015) | 7.0 | |
| CBGB (2013) | 6.6 | |
| We Are the Best! (2013) | 7.1 | |
| All That I Love (2009) | 6.8 | |
| Bomb City (2017) | 6.8 |
Punk movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant punk movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, serious, humorous, captivating and weird films and TV shows about / with punk, punk rock, rock, subculture, violence, coming of age, friends, youth, teenager and drug plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as punk: Oi! Warning (1999), SLC Punk (1998), Bomb City (2017), Suburbia (1983), The Ranger (2018), Engel & Joe (2001), Pistol (2022), We Are the Best! (2013), Green Room (2015), Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984).
Best films
New films
| PussyCake (2021) | 4.7 | |
| Summertime Dropouts (2021) | 5.4 | |
| Riot Girls (2019) | 4.7 | |
| Gutterbug (2019) | 6.2 | |
| Wild Abandon (2022) | 7.1 |
List of punk movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, rough
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
punk, skinhead, homosexuality, gay interest, subculture, punk rock, lgbt, rock, male pubic hair, male nudity, bare chested male, hooligan ...
Time:
90s
Place:
germany, europe
Is relevant?
36K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Style:
realistic, philosophical, harsh, teen, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, subculture, rock, rebelliousness, coming of age, punk rock, self destructing, drug overdose, drug, rock and roll, friendship, drug addiction ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
utah, north dakota, england, seattle, woodstock ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A crime-drama, about the cultural aversion of a group of punk rockers in a conservative Texas town. Their ongoing battle with a rival, more-affluent clique leads to a controversial hate crime that questions the morality of American justice.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, bleak, mindfuck ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
punk, subculture, punk rock, graffiti, friends, life is a bitch, murder, fistfight, ghetto, rock and roll, trial, drug ...
Time:
year 1997, 21st century
Place:
usa, amarillo texas, texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Style:
retro, period piece, independent film, indie film, political ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, punk rock, subculture, dysfunctional family, punk rocker, teenager, friendship, coming of age, skinhead, graffiti, runaway, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Style:
independent film, retro, psychotronic, thinking, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, punk rock, punk rocker, girl band, punk band, feminist, rock and roll, rock, fictional band, taunting, teenager, girl group ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, come up against the local authority—an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
punk, irreverence, ranger, police, on the run, murder, psychopath, gay, serial killer, brutality, group of friends, death ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A love story of a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, sincere, talky ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug addict, punk, youth, kids in trouble, pregnancy, love affair, fall in love, grownups, street kid, family relations, couples, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story:
The story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
Style:
disturbing, semi autobiographical, psychological, captivating
Plot:
punk, punk rock, musician, punk rocker, punk band, rock, career, music, punk music, musician's life, music band, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Style:
touching, lyrical, feel good, semi serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
punk, music, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, punk rock, rebellion, friendship between girls, children, girl power, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, year 2013, 20th century, 70s
Place:
seattle, scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, stockholm sweden ...
Is relevant?
152K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence.
Style:
suspense, bleak, dark, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
skinhead, murder, violence, brutality, survival, friendship, punk, punk band, neo nazi, killed by a dog, violent, revenge ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, astoria oregon
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock, find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are ...
Style:
independent film, not serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous
Plot:
punk, punk rock, rock, girl gang, sexual assault, fictional band, girl group, punk band, erotica, hardcore, alienation, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, venice beach california
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Following their breakout success in England, flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, along for the ride. Along the way, the ...
Style:
captivating, serious, psychedelic, bloody, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, rock and roll, addiction, drug abuse, heroin, punk rock, drug addiction, musician, heroin addict, punk music, drug, music history ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
paris france, england, europe, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
CBGB looks at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman) in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
Style:
captivating, sincere, realistic, serious, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, rock music, nightclub, punk rock, music band, rock and roll, rock band, music, rock, subculture, musician's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, contemplative, sincere ...
Plot:
counterculture, music band, dark humor, friends, society, disorder, punk, rivalry, club, punk rock, rock, punk band ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, serbia, europe, bosnia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit, a glaring exception in a community ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, contemplative, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot:
punk, nudism, nudist camp, father and son, coming of age, parents and children, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, social misfits, uncontrollable ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, non-linear ...
Plot:
racism, punk, war trauma, gang, vandalism, society, youth, downfall, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, teenage life, prison life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
holland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.
Style:
lgbt cinema, underground film, psychedelic, psychotronic, horror musical ...
Plot:
spider, drag queen, body horror, punk, lgbt, camp, tarantula, lgbtq, transvestite, strong female lead, punk rock, lesbian ...
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Style:
black comedy, parody, independent film, dark comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, nudity, cannibalism, punk, monster, female nudity, crematorium, undead, living dead, zombie apocalypse, paramedic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
Is relevant?
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2K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two punks from the big city, traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their friend in this lighthearted road movie. Along the way, they enlist the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, punk rock, road trip, obsessive quest, on the road, partner, mentally unstable, buddies, misfit, injustice, love triangle, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
california, seattle, new york, utah
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, erotic, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Plot:
rock, punk, nihilism, strong sexual content, male rape, misogynist, homosexual, erotic scene, transgression, making love, extreme, homosexual rape ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot:
punk, islam, rock, lifestyle, rebelliousness, student life, society, social misfits, college life, moral dilemma, fighting the system, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pakistan, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Style:
cult classic, experimental, independent film, avant garde, surreal ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, punk, punk rock, rock, dystopia, riot, martial arts, violence, protest, anti establishment, police brutality, youth culture ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of ...
Style:
sexy, teen, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rock music, lesbian, music band, music, teenage girl, coming of age, lesbian love, sex scene, teenage sexuality, teenager, biopic, revisionist history ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, japan, usa, tokyo
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style:
political, depressing, cult classic, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, friendship, coming of age, neo nazi, adolescence, nationalism, boy, children, youth, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, united kingdom, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, captivating, black comedy ...
Plot:
punk, punk rock, supermarket, self discovery, family relations, escapades, on the road, job, freedom, brother brother relationship, anarchy, public nudity ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Is relevant?
2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Style:
grindhouse, teen, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
punk, male nudity, public nudity, american football, male pubic hair, drug addiction, high school, friendship, campus, teenager, subculture, slacker ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new jersey, seattle, texas, usa, new york ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
punk, friendship, music band, musician's life, follow your dream, youth, state affairs, rebelliousness, fighting the system, hopes, society, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
poland, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Paranoia forces small-time scam artist Marty to flee his hometown and hide out in a dangerous Detroit. With nothing but a pocket full of bogus checks, his Power Glove, and a bad temper, the horror metal slacker lashes out.
Style:
psychological, cynical, horror comedy, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
dark humor, slacker, workplace, workplace situations, cons and scams, psychopath, mental disorder, violence, punk, rock, fraud, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in Great Britain from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series. Shown on BBC2, it featured anarchic, offbeat humour which helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of ...
Style:
sitcom, funny, hilarious, laugh out loud, psychedelic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
anarchist, college, satire, rock and roll, sketch, punk rock, humour, subculture, hippie, friends, suicidal, social relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom
Is relevant?
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