Rocker movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant rocker movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, humorous, cult classic, offbeat and serious films and TV shows about / with rocker, rock, rock and roll, band, musician, concert, rock music, singer, music and rock band plots mostly in Music, Comedy and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rocker: Quadrophenia (1979), Trick or Treat (1986), I'm Dead But I Have Friends (2015), August Rush (2007), Just Like Before (2006), The Under-Undergrounds (2016), Revival (2013), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), Breaking Glass (1980), Bald Dog (1981).

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 7.2
 21K
Quadrophenia (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style: surreal, stylized, lyrical, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle, music, rock, coming of age, rock and roll, working class, youth, teenage boy, male nudity, street fight, pharmacy, dancing ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century, year 1979
Place: england, london, brighton, britain, europe
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Trick or Treat (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Eddie is your average 80's metal head teen. Now he's obsessed with his heavy-metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr who is killed in a hotel fire. Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which when played ...
Style: slasher, scary, cult classic, splatter, horror musical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heavy metal, halloween, demon, hard rock, bullying, rock and roll, radio, monster, bully, satanic ritual, rock, punk ...
Time: 80s
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I'm Dead But I Have Friends (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a ...
Style: road movie, captivating, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, music band, musician, rocker, ashes, concert, death, funeral, motorcycle, beer, airplane, singing ...
Place: canada
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 7.4
 111K
August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
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Just Like Before (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A movie about the Filipino rock Band The Dawn.
Style: captivating, independent film, semi autobiographical
Plot: rock band, rock music, singer, musician, fame, rocker, rock star, music band, musician's life, music, obscurity, concert ...
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The Under-Undergrounds (2016)
Genre: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: Brazil
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Story: This is the story of Hector, a boy who is kicked out of his band because they think he is not cool enough. On his way home, upset about the happening, he falls in a hole and ends up in an underground world, inhabited by many strange creatures. ...
Style: captivating, humorous, entertaining, light
Audience: kids
Plot: rock music, music band, musician, rock star, friendship, fantasy world, rock musician, dream world, rocker, rock and roll, escapades, musician's life ...
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 6.6
 355
Revival (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The comedy Revival tells the story of four musicians whose rock band SMOKE broke up under uncertain circumstances in 1972 and who, each for their own reasons, decide to attempt a spectacular comeback. The reasons vary - money, longing for lost fame, ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: aging, music band, musician's life, rocker, artists and showbiz, buddies, music, elderly, friends, rock, bossy wife, rebirth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, czech republic
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill ...
Style: funny, cult classic, light, humorous, retro ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, kids, date night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, afterlife, robot, rock and roll, heaven, sent to the past, heavy metal, buddy, god, grim reaper, rejuvenation ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
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Breaking Glass (1980)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's ...
Style: thinking, psychotronic, serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock, rock and roll, club, unsettling, rock music, rock star, music business, satire, rocker, alienation ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
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 7.5
 630
Bald Dog (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them. TV and radio don't play their songs, sometimes even their crowd just sits and sips beer. Something must be ...
Plot: rocker, songwriter, concert, rock band, blues, rock and roll, rock music, band
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 6.9
 6K
Suburbia (1983)
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: independent film, psychotronic, retro, political, indie film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk rock, punk, subculture, teenager, coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, skinhead, graffiti, runaway, punk music, friendship between men ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert ...
Style: mockumentary, parody, spoof, funny, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heavy metal, music, musician, rock and roll, satire, singer, rock, music band, pianist, found footage, rock music, fame ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: seattle, middle east, austin texas, memphis, los angeles ...
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 7.1
 18K
Crossroads (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Cult classic starring Ralph Macchio as a want-to-be blues guitar virtuoso who seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician Robert Johnson.
Style: road movie, light, captivating, offbeat, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: deal with the devil, blues, music, on the road, rock and roll, destiny, coming of age, mentor, supernatural, storytelling, transformation, life philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, new york
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 7.0
 35K
Sid and Nancy (1986)
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: bloody, cult classic, disturbing, independent film, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, addiction, rock and roll, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, biopic, punk rock, couples, musician, heroin addict, drug ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: new york, london, paris france, england, usa ...
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of failing high school students -- Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan -- are visited by a time traveler from the future who takes them on an adventure through time to gather up actual historical figures to help them ...
Style: hilarious, funny, cult classic, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, date night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, high school, changing the past or future, sent to the past, teenager, rock and roll, buddy, medieval, travel, heavy metal, classmate classmate relationship ...
Time: 80s, middle ages, 20th century, future, 1900s ...
Place: ancient greece, california, new mexico, washington d.c., athens greece ...
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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ford "Mr. Rock n' Roll Detective" Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it's not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts. Another ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, not serious, realistic, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: private detective, violence, showbiz, heavy metal, law enforcement, rock star, partner, goofy hero, boss and employee, investigation, conspiracy, death ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: los angeles
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 4.9
 1K
Far Out Man (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An aging hippie sets out on a trip across America to find his family.
Style: funny, realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film
Plot: stoner, weed, hippie, drug, road trip, rocker, on the road, silly humor, partner, aging, artists and showbiz, media ...
Time: 60s, 90s
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 5.2
 1K
Rockula (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young vampire cannot lose his virginity because of a curse imposed upon him centuries ago.
Style: sexy, grindhouse, horror musical, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rock, rock and roll, supernatural, rock star, vampire, rocker, guts, hard rock, punk, female vampire, reflection, singer ...
Time: 90s, 80s
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 7.2
 99K
The Doors (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Style: psychedelic, factual, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: rock and roll, music band, drug addiction, life philosophy, musician's life, addiction, music, biopic, musician, drug abuse, singer, hippie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1949, year 1967 ...
Place: california, paris france, los angeles, usa, new mexico ...
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The Doom Generation (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.
Style: erotic, disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lovers on the run, on the road, sex, lgbt, satanist, sex slave, surrealism, road trip, dark humor, forced sex, golden retriever, mistaken identity ...
Time: near future, 90s
Place: seattle, california
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 6.9
 39K
Private Parts (1997)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
Style: humorous, funny, semi serious, witty, sexy ...
Plot: radio, nudity, anti conformity, sorority, public nudity, satire, female pubic hair, female nudity, ambition, lifestyle, workplace, rebelliousness ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, year 1981, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: washington d.c., middle east, new york, usa, detroit
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 7.4
 33K
SLC Punk! (1998)
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, rebelliousness, rock, self destructing, coming of age, drug overdose, rebellion, friendship, drug, punk rock, rock and roll ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: utah, north dakota, seattle, england, los angeles ...
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 7.0
 9K
Still Crazy (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor ...
Style: clever, humorous, neurotic, contemplative, semi serious ...
Plot: music, rock and roll, rock band, comeback, rock, satire, british, fictional band, musician, singer, death, underdog ...
Time: 70s, year 1998, 20th century, 90s
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Detroit Rock City (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's ...
Style: feel good, road movie, funny, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rock and roll, virginity, heavy metal, coming of age, youth, friendship, teenager, high school, road trip, music, stoner, stereotypes ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: michigan, ohio, detroit, usa, cleveland ohio
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 6.3
 45K
Rock Star (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rock Star tells the story of Chris Cole and a rock band called Steel Dragon. Cole is a photocopier technician by day, and the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called "Blood Pollution" by night.Internal struggles between the Steel ...
Style: stylized, melancholic, entertaining, intense, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: music, rock star, rock and roll, rock music, heavy metal, rock, audition, success, ambition, rock concert, rock band, relationship problems ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, y2k, 20th century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, seattle
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Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
Genre: Action, Music, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rock superstar Slade Craven has decided to hang up his rock & roll shoes and has planned something very special for his final show -- instead of a typical concert in some sports arena, he'll play a set aboard a 747 jumbo jet, flying from ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, terrorism, aviation, law enforcement, danger, one man army, daring rescue, rescue, escapades, heroic mission, concert, hostage ...
Time: 2000s
Place: los angeles, kansas, usa, canada, colorado
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Run Ronnie Run (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.
Style: humorous, not serious, absurd, cult classic, funny ...
Plot: rise and fall, goofy hero, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, disorder, celebrity culture, hollywood, stoner, absurdism, redneck, satire, beer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Strange Frequency (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Rock 'n Roll version of the Twilight Zone, with four segments: "Disco Inferno," where metalheads find themselves in hell; "My Generation," where hitchhikers help you die before you get old; "Room Service," rock ...
Style: anthology, serious, suspenseful, scary, horror comedy ...
Plot: lifestyle, musician's life, supernatural, nightlife, music band, curses spells and rituals, rock, time travel, generation gap, rocker, disco, artists and showbiz ...
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 6.4
 969
Engel & Joe (2001)
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, sincere, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug addict, youth, punk, kids in trouble, pregnancy, love affair, fall in love, life is a bitch, street kid, grownups, couples, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.7
 14K
Studio 666 (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the ...
Style: horror comedy, bloody, suspense, funny, black comedy ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, hard rock, haunted, rock, bookstore, demonic possession, rocker, subculture, cannibalism, decapitation, absurd violence ...
Time: year 1993
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