Junkyard movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant junkyard movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good and bleak films and TV shows about / with junkyard, friendship, redemption, father son relationship, revenge, violence, children, murder, survival and death plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as junkyard: Street Trash (1987), Halloween Ends (2022), The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019), Goodbye Berlin (2016), Sanford and Son (1972), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Gachiakuta (2025), Car Cemetery (1983), The Sadist (1963), The Brave Little Toaster (1987).
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List of junkyard movies
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor ...
Style:
horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, toxic, homelessness, misfit, drunkenness, rape, junkyard, death, store, supernatural, experiment gone awry, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Four years after the traumatic events of Halloween in 2018, the nightmare ends as Laurie Strode comes face to face with Michael Myers, once and for all.
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, scary, bloody, tense ...
Plot:
halloween, killing spree, homicidal maniac, serial killer, holiday horror, masked killer, babysitter, radio station, junkyard, radio dj, violence, psycho killer ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
illinois
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Malawi, USA, Kenya
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
Style:
motivational, rough, disturbing, factual, bleak ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
farming, hunger, childhood, teenage boy, destiny, school expulsion, bicycle, chief, teacher, school, desperation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two outsiders travel around the countryside during school holidays.
Style:
road movie, light, entertaining, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, classmate, friendship between boys, teenage boy, alcoholic mother, junkyard, birthday party, youth, fall in love, teenage love, mother son relationship, gay ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Sanford and Son is an American sitcom, based on the BBC's Steptoe and Son, that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977.
Known for its edgy racial humor, running gags and catch phrases, the series was adapted ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, humorous, talky, sincere ...
Plot:
junkyard, all black cast, family business, working class, black, family life, friendship, parents and children, generation gap, workplace, single parent, odd couple ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the ...
Style:
sad, sweet, touching, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot:
dog, childhood, orphan, afterlife, heaven, angel, talking animal, death, friendship, furry, escape, junkyard ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1939
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In a floating city where the rich discard their waste—and people—Rudo is framed for murder and thrown into the Pit, where a hellscape of mutated garbage beasts dwell. To survive, he must wield a new power and join the rogue Cleaners. Rudo ...
Style:
dark fantasy, anime, bleak, neo noir, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, survival, junkyard, dystopia, toxic waste, wrongful imprisonment, violence, exile, corruption, urban decay, class struggle, cyberpunk ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises ...
Style:
avant garde, black comedy, transgressive, surreal, bleak ...
Plot:
dystopia, junkyard, surrealism, post apocalypse, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, punk rock, post apocalyptic, absurdism, anti establishment, christ allegory, counterculture ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, car trouble, junkyard, death of friend, rattlesnake, exploitation, murder, teacher, sadism, snake, sociopath ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
los angeles, california, arizona
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of dated appliances find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold decide to, a la The Incredible Journey, seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous ...
Style:
entertaining, witty, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool ...
Plot:
friendship, on the road, happy ending, greed, escapades, rescue, toys, missing person, danger, technology, radio, junkyard ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, poignant ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, 11 year old girl, junkyard, search for mother, female protagonist, coming of age, child protagonist, poverty, social realism, mother child separation, forceful separation, separation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
nicaragua, latin america
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Former military extraction specialist Marcus Lombardi, whose only chance of saving his informant sister and their family is to track down a mysterious briefcase.
Style:
suspense, humorous, exciting, tense, semi serious ...
Plot:
safecracking, gangster, junkyard, hitman, kidnapping, corrupt cop, computer genius, female assassin, gambling debt, killing, chase, crime boss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, France, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland
Duration: 190 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of "Skrotnisse" and his son "Kalle" who works at a junk yard, and the adventures they experience.
Style:
folk tale
Audience:
kids
Plot:
inventor, family values, junkyard, swedish, father son relationship, friendship, child protagonist, small town, family drama, treasure hunt, good versus evil, stop motion ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, waste, junkyard, family drama, ecological disaster, contamination, environmental, village life, problem, couples, changing lives, ecology ...
Time:
near future
Place:
middle east, lebanon
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot:
mafia, life is a bitch, mob hit, threat, mobster, junkyard, organized crime, criminal gang, family in danger, mafioso, criminal, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
southern italy
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686
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mirko Talhammer is beyond himself when two strange guys show up in his noble insurance office and remind him where he really comes from: from a scrapyard in the provinces, where careers are not what counts, other things are more important: scrapping ...
Plot:
junkyard, brothers, father son relationship, heist, working class, train robbery, inheritance, family business, small town, brotherhood, blue collar, legacy ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two brothers intercept 911 calls in their Father's beat up old Ambulance to exact revenge on a group of careless teen drivers.
Style:
brutal, slasher, disturbing, sadistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, ambulance, masked killer, masked man, maniac, characters killed one by one, torture, murder, brother brother relationship, sadism, wilderness, child abuse ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A fractured family, caught in a deadly lightning storm, is forced to come together to save their lives.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious, intense ...
Plot:
disaster, storm, husband and wife, mountain biking, struck by lightning, divorce, cell phone, lightning, survival, vacation, junkyard, weatherman ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Oggly family arrive at the municipal rubbish dump of Smelliville and must look for a new home, but they never feel really welcome anywhere. They stink and are for most humans just a tad too oggly. When Firebottom, the family dragon, crash-lands ...
Style:
humorous, light, psychological, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
friendship, small town, creature, problem solving, teamwork, society, junkyard, social relations, escapades, garbage dump, friends, environmental ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young car learns the importance of family when he embarks on a mission to rescue his father who's been sent to Clunker Island to be re-purposed as junk metal.
Style:
funny, exciting, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
rescue mission, journey, race, car, talking car, father son relationship, family values, machine, adventure hero, automobile, car race, mission ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A gentle comedy offering the promise of easy social consensus. Harry (Helmuth) is a simple old-time shop porter offered a chance at self-realisation when he's bequeathed a sum by an unknown relative (via several levels of fiscal blood suckers). ...
Style:
uplifting, lighthearted, feel good, period piece
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
butler, inheritance, working class, heartwarming, friendship, class differences, social class, generosity, junkyard, slice of life, redemption, caretaker ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Steven, a meek accountant-in-training, is living contentedly with his wife Clara and working for her brothers, managing the books at their junkyard. All of this changes when the belly dancer they hire for Steve's birthday turns out to be Anke, ...
Style:
romantic drama
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, rape and revenge, marriage crisis, family conflict, forbidden romance, domestic drama, belly dancer, junkyard, jealousy, seduction, betrayal ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Here Come the Double Deckers was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970-71 revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused works yard.
Style:
lighthearted, feel good, retro, period piece
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
friendship, imagination, urban, junkyard, light comedy, community, youth culture, problem solving, boy girl relationship, tiger, children, little girl ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, england, britain
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
It's election time in Dogtown and longtime Mayor Jack Russel has his nose fixed on a fourth term. But Barney Lockjaw plots to take over the junkyard. Will Dogtown stop Barney Lockjaws before it's too late? Find out in Dogtown 2.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, semi serious, feel good, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot:
dog, politics, animal life, anthropomorphic animal, political intrigue, talking animal, animal, animal protagonist, political unrest, political campaign, political satire, political activism ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
After years of absence, Teppei’s joyous reunion with his brother is cut short when the two brothers are attacked. When his brother is kidnapped, Teppei gives chase only to find himself cornered in a junkyard when a miracle appears. His spilled ...
Style:
anime, mecha, heroic, intense, dramatic ...
Plot:
robot, rescue mission, family bonds, battles, futuristic technology, brotherhood, transformation, rescue, revenge, junkyard, island, dystopia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, germany
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, China, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
When Cole returns to Yang's haunted temple to seek revenge on a former Airjitzu Master, he accidentally uses a powerful Dark Magic blade that unleashes the spectral forms of Ninjago's greatest villains and traps himself in the temple. The ...
Style:
captivating, spiritual, dark fantasy, exciting
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
ninja, lego, epic battle, supernatural, ghost, martial arts, resurrection, fight, ancestor, good versus evil, ninja warrior, ninja master ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on New Year's Eve in Berlin and decide to run away together. As David's arm is plastered from an accident Marie continues to prostitute herself ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, romantic drama, independent film ...
Plot:
young lovers, working class, poverty, resilience, prostitution, social commentary, survival, desperation, slice of life, urban decay, intimacy, anti capitalism ...
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
As the animated version of Stephen Chow's 2008 hit comedy CJ7, CJ7: The Cartoon loosely adopts the original plot of how a father and a son accidentally pick up an alien named CJ7. The film has a newly developed story line during which CJ7 ...
Style:
captivating, cute, light hearted, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien, magical creature, father son relationship, alien encounter, supernatural, alien creature, human alien relationship, alien life-form, family life, escapades, alien contact, creature ...
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his ...
Style:
emotional, light, sentimental, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, reincarnation, death, human becomes animal, afterlife, animal, talking dog, grief, family relations, family life, life, junkyard ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to ...
Style:
sexy, neo noir, erotic, suspense, talky ...
Plot:
on the run, sensuality, passion, sex scene, nudity, chase, murder, tragic love, jealousy, escape, attraction, machismo ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, california, latin america, usa ...
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