Most Similar Movies to Pump Up the Volume (1990)


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The Wackness (2008), When the Party's Over (1992), SLC Punk! (1998), Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Cold Water (1994), Reach the Rock (1998), The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

The Wackness (2008)

The Wackness (2008)

7.0/10 Comedy, Drama, Romance

It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.

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When the Party's Over (1992)

When the Party's Over (1992)

4.9/10 Drama, Gay & Lesbian

3 women and a gay man in their 20s share a house in LA. Boyfriends and a kid brother come and go.

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SLC Punk! (1998)

SLC Punk! (1998)

7.5/10 Comedy, Romance, Drama, Music

In the early 1980s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.

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Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

7.4/10 Comedy, Drama

An awkward seventh grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.

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Cold Water (1994)

Cold Water (1994)

7.1/10 Drama

When the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?

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Reach the Rock (1998)

Reach the Rock (1998)

6.8/10 Comedy, Drama

Two school kids, who are best friends, are drinking on the side of a river. One friend bets the other that he can't swim across the river and "Reach The Rock". The friend takes the bet and drowns halfway towards the rock. The entire town blames the the kid for his friends death, he runs away, never to be seen again. He eventually comes back to his home town of Shermer...Read all

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

6.6/10 Drama

In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.

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The Last of the High Kings (1996)

The Last of the High Kings (1996)

5.9/10 Drama, Gay & Lesbian

In the summer after he finishes high school, Frankie Griffin (Jared Leto) nervously awaits the results of his college entrance examinations, positive he's failed, while he struggles to get through a long season full of challenges. Over the summer months, he deals with his mother's (Catherine O'Hara) and father's (Gabriel Byrne) high expectations, admires two teenage girls from afar, plans the perfect party, and fights off unwanted attention from an American tourist (Christina Ricci).

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Awaydays (2009)

Awaydays (2009)

5.8/10 Drama

In the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, also the crown years of hooliganism, the opportunities for thrill-seeking young men are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and fighting.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

8.0/10 Drama

An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.

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Badlands (1973)

Badlands (1973)

7.8/10 Drama, Crime

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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Christiane F (1981)

Christiane F (1981)

7.6/10 Drama

A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

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Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

7.5/10 Drama

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

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The United States of Leland (2003)

The United States of Leland (2003)

7.1/10 Drama

A young man's experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives.

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Different for Girls (1996)

Different for Girls (1996)

7.0/10 Comedy, Drama

Karl Foyle and Paul Prentice were best mates at school in the Seventies. But when they meet again in present-day London things are definitely not the same.

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Neo Ned (2005)

Neo Ned (2005)

7.0/10 Drama

Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, Ned is placed in a mental hospital where he is mesmerized by a young black girl who believes Adolf Hitler was reincarnated ...Read all

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Charlie Bartlett (2007)

Charlie Bartlett (2007)

7.0/10 Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.

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Highway 61 (1991)

Highway 61 (1991)

6.9/10 Drama

A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.

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