Punk rock movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant punk rock movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out independent film, realistic, serious, rockumentary, semi serious and cult classic films and TV shows about / with punk rock, punk, rock, subculture, music, friends, alienation, club, coming of age and punk rocker plots mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as punk rock: Suburbia (1983), Bomb City (2017), Control (2007), Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2 (2016), Sid and Nancy (1986), We Are the Best! (2013), SLC Punk! (1998), What We Do Is Secret (2007), Summer of Sam (1999), CBGB (2013).

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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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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A high schooler from suburbia gets in touch with her sexuality while working at a dingy movie theater in the city.
Style: sad, crying, independent film, underground film, grunge
Audience: teens
Plot: punk rock, punk, rock, death, coming of age, female sexuality, male nudity, teenage girl, illegal drugs, cinema, woman, suburbs ...
Place: seattle, minnesota, midwest, minneapolis minnesota, wisconsin
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 6.8
 9K
Bomb City (2017)
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, rough, psychological, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: punk, subculture, punk rock, graffiti, society, life is a bitch, friends, murder, fistfight, rock and roll, trial, ghetto ...
Time: year 1997, 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple of British 1970s teenaged boys, Enn and Vic, go to a party to meet girls, only to find that the girls are very different from the boys' expectations.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: punk rock, alien, surrealism, galaxy, alien disguised as human, female alien, forbidden love, teenage boy, party, teenager, coming of age, girl ...
Time: year 2017, 70s, year 1992, 90s, year 1977
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 7.6
 68K
Control (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Japan, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, black and white, stylized, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, punk, singer, depression, suicide, musician's life, punk rock, musician, rock and roll, biopic, epilepsy, music band ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 2007, year 1980, year 1973 ...
Place: england, manchester, london, northern england, europe
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Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2 (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Punk's Dead, the sequel to 1999 cult hit SLC Punk, is a punk romp through the Utah hinterlands. Ross, Penny and Crash, young outsiders from different tribes, embark on a road trip to a huge punk show. Ross, 19, is the love child of Trish and ...
Plot: punk rock, drug, concert, subculture, rock, goth, art, dancing, punk, teenage rebellion, hair, bare chested male ...
Place: salt lake city utah
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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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We Are the Best! (2013)
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, stylized, lyrical, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, punk, teenager, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, punk rock, rebellion, adolescence, children, girl power, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, year 2013, 20th century
Place: seattle, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
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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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What We Do Is Secret (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A biopic of punk legend Darby Crash and his band, the Germs.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, informative ...
Plot: punk rock, punk, music, rock, biopic, musician's life, lifestyle, rising to stardom, drug abuse, celebrity culture, nightlife, ambition ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 6.7
 41K
Summer of Sam (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, killer, murder, psychopath, punk, infidelity, true crime, lust, dark humor, punk rock, drug, profanity ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1999, year 1977, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, harlem, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.6
 11K
CBGB (2013)
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, punk rock, music band, rock and roll, nightclub, music, rock band, rock, musician's life, subculture, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.0
 4K
Jubilee (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Style: offbeat, mind bending, grindhouse, dark, touching ...
Plot: punk rock, time travel, rock and roll, distopia, rock, surrealism, murder, dystopian future, post apocalypse, counterculture, dystopia, girl gang ...
Time: distant future, future, 17th century, 70s
Place: britain, england, london, united kingdom, europe
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
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: psychotronic, retro, thinking, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock and roll, rock, feminist, satire, coming of age, rock music, girl gang, feminism, counterculture, strong female character ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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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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Out of the Blue (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dennis Hopper is a hard-drinking truck driver who loses control of his truck under the influence and slams it into a busload of screaming children. After serving his five year jail sentence, Hopper finds his daughter, Cebe (Linda Manz), the love of ...
Style: depressing, neo noir, controversial, serious, realistic ...
Plot: punk rock, alcoholic father, drug abuse, rock, drug, psychotic, coming of age, father, teenager, trauma, women, street kid ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: canada
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Tod den Hippies!! Es lebe der Punk! (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de force through the glorious dirt of West Berlin ensues. Full of sex, drugs, love and PUNK.
Style: captivating, disturbing
Audience: teen drama
Plot: punk rock, punk rocker, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth culture, escapades, robbery, money problems, satire, social problems, nightclub, sex club, strip club ...
Time: 80s
Place: germany, east berlin, west berlin west germany
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Brass Knuckle Boys (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was ...
Style: satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, feel good
Plot: punk rock, record company, punk band, punk, manager, management, talent agent, rock, music business, music band, problem, escapades ...
Place: japan
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Hard Core Logo (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on ...
Style: mockumentary, talky, humorous, intense, captivating ...
Plot: punk, music, punk rock, on the road, existentialism, rock music, music band, rock and roll, artists and showbiz, friends, musician's life, ambition ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, vancouver, winnipeg, british columbia, los angeles
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 6.4
 2K
Rude Boy (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public events of the day, including political ...
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, biting
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock, skinhead, rock and roll, rock music, angry, youth culture, exodus, hooligan, alienation, pop music ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
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 6.7
 3K
Smithereens (1982)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Style: independent film, sexy, indie film, psychological thriller, grim ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: punk rock, punk, feminist, rock, rock and roll, coming of age, price of fame, visceral, bad girl, underground, feminism, pain ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
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Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Style: grindhouse, teen, cult classic, psychotronic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock and roll, high school, music, rock, teenager, punk, punk rock, school, youth, rebellion, adolescence, rock music ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles
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 5.6
 2K
Dudes (1987)
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, misfit, buddies, injustice, fish out of water, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: california, seattle, new york, utah
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 41K
Repo Man (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, alien, surrealism, car trunk, punk rocker, absurdism, mad scientist, car chase, conspiracy theory, punk rock, ufo, business ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place: california, los angeles, arizona, usa
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 6.6
 2K
Times Square (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York by its ears.
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock, teenage girl, urban, teenager, older man younger woman relationship, lgbtq, tomboy, manic, hardcore, age difference ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.8
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Booked Out (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ailidh (Mirren Burke) has two loves in this world: spying on her neighbours and writing graphic novels. The arrival of Jacob (Rollo Weeks - Girl with a Pearl Earring), inspires Ailidh and she soon begins conjuring up increasingly elaborate plans to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Plot: punk rock, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, love and romance, friends, twentysomething life, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, obsession, shyness, cooking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, france
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 7.0
 138K
Green Room (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Music, 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, tension, bleak, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: skinhead, survival, murder, brutality, violence, punk, friendship, punk band, escape, neo nazi, revenge, heroin ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place: oregon, portland oregon, astoria oregon
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Genre: Music
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam ...
Style: grindhouse, mockumentary, erotic, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot: punk, music, rock and roll, punk rock, rock, dancing, showbiz, subculture, musician, nudity, music business, sociology ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: london, england
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 6.0
 7K
Liquid Sky (1982)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: alien, sex, punk, heroin, androgyny, space and aliens, punk rock, drug, surrealism, orgasm, lgbt, alien invasion ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: new york, usa
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Punk Rock Holocaust (2004)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: It is about a serial killer on the loose at the Vans Warped Tour who tries killing off the bands one by one, and features bands such as Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Less Than Jake, The Used, Big D and the Kids Table, Rancid, The Horrorpops, The ...
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: punk rock, punk, rock, serial killer, zombie, alienation, rock and roll, hard rock, punk band, death, blood, poison ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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