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90
8.7
/23488/
85
/1089/
83
/337/
4.7
/172044/
100
/71/
97
/571/
94
/15/

Stop Making Sense (1984)
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.
poster
83
8.1
/760890/
80
/17143/
80
/10112/
4.2
/1057262/
90
/98/
93
/16411/
83
/28/
cc age 18+

Trainspotting (1996)
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
poster
Netflix
82
8.1
/986155/
80
/27832/
77
/14043/
3.9
/849071/
90
/129/
89
/19854/
84
/21/
cc age 15+

The Terminator (1984)
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
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MGM Plus
81
7.3
/41320/
72
/892/
69
/487/
3.8
/49070/
87
/99/
87
/1634/
85
/29/
cc age 17+

24 Hour Party People (2002)
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
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Hoopla
81
7.6
/71006/
77
/1355/
75
/892/
3.9
/83953/
88
/119/
89
/6460/
78
/27/

Control (2007)
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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Criterion Channel
78
7.5
/33747/
73
/1125/
73
/1399/
3.9
/181510/
80
/10/
85
/303/

Christiane F. (1981)
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
poster
74
7.3
/172748/
74
/4176/
71
/2174/
3.6
/100417/
79
/63/
81
/2696/
56
/16/
cc age 17+

Wall Street (1987)
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Kanopy
82
73
7.7
/4054/
75
/103/
76
/54/
3.8
/4679/
100
/5/
92
/277/

Joy Division (2009)
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
6.7
/4984/
65
/80/
64
/59/
3.4
/3991/
68
/68/
78
/286/
67
/25/

Me Without You (2001)
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
poster
69
6.8
/60837/
67
/1264/
67
/1084/
3.5
/33221/
77
/44/
64
/677/
66
/16/

Frantic (1988)
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
poster
FXNow
67
6.7
/204324/
71
/17386/
67
/6445/
3.2
/333809/
91
/251/
75
/2963/
66
/39/
cc age 11+

Bumblebee (2018)
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.
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Kanopy
69
47
6.8
/1343/
63
/31/
53
/13/
3.6
/3601/
83
/6/
76
/53/
cc age 14+

Starstruck (1982)
A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.
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65
45
6.4
/1449/
76
/39/
57
/17/
3.6
/1802/
63
/8/
82
/94/
43
/11/

Dogs in Space (1986)
The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-bes who survive on a diet of old TV space films, drugs and good music. And the satellite SKYLAB could crash through their roof at any moment...
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41
4.3
/1573/
43
/41/
45
/25/
2.6
/894/
30
/28/

A Night In Heaven (1983)
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
82
39
7.6
/256/
91
/23/
82
/11/
4.0
/8033/

Rita Lee: Mania de Você (2025)
Just before her departure, Rita Lee writes a farewell letter to her three children and her husband and musical partner, Roberto de Carvalho, in which she reflects on her life and joyfully celebrates her family. Her final moments also mark the time to look back and review a career full of unforgettable successes, which led her to sell more than 55 million records. But it is also a time to reveal her downfalls, her vulnerable side, and her excesses as the queen of rock. With completely unseen personal archives and exclusive testimonies from her own family, as well as producers, journalists, musicians, and celebrities such as Gilberto Gil and Ney Matogrosso, "Rita Lee: Mania de Você" presents her definitive legacy.
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64
36
7.0
/1600/
64
/49/
63
/40/
3.3
/1209/
61
/20/

Worried About the Boy (2010)
In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter, who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange's trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk. Through Kirk George meets the handsome drummer Jon Moss, on whom he develops a crush, but sacked by the Blitz and spurned by Kirk, George turns to Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren to further his music career. George's spell with McLaren's group Bow Wow Wow is short but fan Mikey North is impressed and asks George to sing in a group he is forming, where George again meets Jon. They will have an affair and the group will become the very successful Culture Club. Four years later, however, hounded by the tabloid press amid stories of his drug addiction, an unhappy George turns to Jon for advice on his future.
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Kanopy
63
34
6.9
/640/
67
/49/
57
/22/
3.4
/458/
71
/17/
58
/7/
60
/9/

Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)
A journey through the 1980s and beyond; the story of a band, an era and how one small gathering of outsiders in London shaped the entire world’s view of music and fashion. The film is not only a fascinating, often hard-hitting social and cultural document of the time, but a brutally honest story of how friendships can be won, lost and ultimately regained.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
34
6.5
/1532/
69
/53/
60
/39/
3.2
/594/
56
/9/
49
/18/
40
/7/

House of Boys (2009)
It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
27
6.6
/782/
62
/11/
61
/15/
3.4
/539/
80
/32/

Static (1986)
Ernie Blick has just lost his job at a crucifix factory. Luckily, for Ernie, this allows him more time to devote to his invention. Yes, Ernie is an inventor -- and he's come up with something big. So big, in fact, Ernie's convinced it will change the way people look at life and death. With the support of his drummer friend Julia and his ex-Green Beret-evangelist cousin, Ernie unveils it to the world. But even he isn't prepared for the public's reaction.
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64
27
6.7
/1223/
60
/25/
63
/27/
3.3
/852/

Wasted Youth (2003)
The year is 1981, the German New Wave is at the peak. Harry, otherwise Sparkasse trainee, wants to make it big as a manager of the band of his friends, Apollo Schwabing. He has booked the band as the opening act for a concert where the group DAF are the headliners.
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42
25
5.1
/1957/
60
/93/
49
/41/
2.8
/543/
15
/20/
25
/45/

Ecstasy (2011)
A small-time drug smuggler from Scotland, is trying to figure out his way through life until he meets a beautiful girl from Canada, who seeks a change after a bad relationship she just got out of.
poster
The Roku Channel
55
20
6.4
/951/
50
/22/
53
/32/
3.2
/329/
46
/15/

Funkytown (2011)
Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: Starlight. Along the way, several events take place that change these characters' lives. As these characters' lives unfold, the Parti Québécois takes power changing the cultural landscape in Quebec while the disco craze slowly fades. While we keep up with these various characters - it is Bastien who is a central part of this story. His drug addiction, dreams to become an actor and womanizing - make him the "bigger than life" typical 70s character around which the whole story revolves.
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75
16
7.7
/423/
73
/18/
69
/11/
3.5
/337/
86
/11/

New Wave: Dare to be Different (2017)
U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure: Over half a billion records sold but you may never have heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY: WLIR. In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, mega-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America.
poster
Hoopla
71
12
7.1
/440/
75
/14/
70
/4/
3.4
/655/

Blitzed: The 80's Blitz Kids Story (2022)
Out of one small London venue called The Blitz came a generation of outrageous teenagers, working class and art school kids, who would define the look, the sound, the style and the attitude of the '80s and beyond. This is their story.
poster
53
10
5.3
/419/
50
/15/
58
/4/
3.2
/288/
42
/22/

Big Meat Eater (1982)
After killing the crooked mayor, a homicidal janitor named Abdullah goes to work for a butcher who has invented a new language for the town's planned futuristic theme park. In the butcher shop is a septic tank where scraps of meat are dumped, which has produced "balonium," a radioactive fuel source sought by space aliens. The aliens revive the mayor, whose body is hanging in the meat locker of the butcher shop, in an attempt to gain access to the balonium.
poster
?
7.2
/13/

I Want to Destroy America (2006)
A documentary film by Peter I. Chang which traces the life of the Japanese musician Hisao Shinagawa through his early years as a folk singer in Tokyo to his current occupation as a street performer in Los Angeles.
poster
?
8.5
/25/
10
/1/
55
/2/

Heroes of Today (1984)
A cheerful music film with the Austrian pop star Johann Hölzel (better known as Falco), in which he travels around the world.
poster
52
?
7.2
/151/
10
/1/
76
/7/

The Emperor Of Rome (1988)
A drug addict escapes his misery one night by reliving the founding of Rome and imagining himself the Emperor.
poster
?
6.8
/11/
75
/2/

Übriggebliebene ausgereifte Haltungen (2007)
Rockumentary über die Goldenen Zitronen
poster
?
7.8
/36/
60
/1/

Malditos, la historia de Fiskales Ad-Hok (2004)
Chile, 1986, during Pinochet's regime. Álvaro and Roli meet on the street and soon they form the most important punk band in the country's history: 'Los Fiskales Ad Hok', and thus begin their own personal fight against the dictatorship.
poster
?
6.5
/92/
65
/7/
70
/7/

Anne Clark: I'll Walk Out Into Tomorrow (2018)
Anne Clark, an icon of music history and a terrific pioneer of spoken word art, has been on stage for more than 30 years. It transforms language into unique music. Since the early 1980s, New Wave classics such as OUR DARKNESS and SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS have provided a thrill of excitement that has inspired generations of musicians.
poster
?
6.9
/11/
10
/1/

Riots and Love (1981)
Documentary film and music film from Germany
poster
55
?
7.1
/26/
52
/2/
43
/44/

Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun (2004)
New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love them as much today as they did 25 years ago. Devo have been through a lot over the years, developing their parody of humankind's plight of conformity in their theory of devolution after member Gerald Casale witnessed the Kent State killings of student protesters in 1970, but they haven't wavered in their innovative sounds and pioneering visuals.
poster
59
?
6.4
/133/
45
/2/
3.5
/308/

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 (1982)
Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on HAMMET(1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences between the film-making process in Europe and the States.
poster
?

Are We Not Men?
A documentary about DEVO
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?

Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
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