Top 20 movies like Pump Up the Volume

Pump Up the Volume

Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.

Pump Up the Volume is of 1 hour(s) and 45 minute(s). It is Produced By:  New Line Cinema, SC Entertainment. It was released on 1990-08-22. It has the tagline: TALK HARD. STEAL THE AIR. It has an average vote of 7.043 on TMDB.

Genres: MusicDrama

1. Lorna

Lorna

Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it's their anniversary.

It has an average vote of 5.786 on TMDB.

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2. Rat-Man (Rat-Man - Il segreto del supereroe)

Rat-Man

Animation movie about a masked mouse hero, created by Leo Ortolani and directed by Mario Montigiani.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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3. Nina Frisk (Nina Frisk)

Nina Frisk

Nina Frisk is a flight attendant who loves flying. She is happy above the clouds, far away from her dysfunctional family and superficial love life. But then one day Nina meets Marcus and his son William, and falls helplessly in love. For the first time ever in her life, Nina begins to long for a family of her own. But Nina soon discovers that life on earth can be just as turbulent as in the sky.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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4. Liebe macht Erfinderisch (Liebe macht Erfinderisch)

Liebe macht Erfinderisch

(Liebe macht Erfinderisch)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

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5. David and Lisa

David and Lisa

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.

It has an average vote of 7.327 on TMDB.

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6. Blow Dry

Blow Dry

The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.

It has an average vote of 5.886 on TMDB.

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7. Lonely Are the Brave

Lonely Are the Brave

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

It has an average vote of 7.298 on TMDB.

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8. Heathers

Heathers

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

It has an average vote of 7.305 on TMDB.

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9. The Man Who Sleeps (Un homme qui dort)

The Man Who Sleeps

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.

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10. Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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11. Valley Girl

Valley Girl

Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

It has an average vote of 5.947 on TMDB.

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12. Shoah (Shoah)

Shoah

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.

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13. What's Love Got to Do with It

What's Love Got to Do with It

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

It has an average vote of 7.118 on TMDB.

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14. That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio)

That Man from Rio

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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15. Young Guns II

Young Guns II

Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett.

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

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16. He Never Died

He Never Died

Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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17. The House of the Devil

The House of the Devil

A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

It has an average vote of 6.287 on TMDB.

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18. Robbing Mussolini (Rapiniamo il Duce)

Robbing Mussolini

Near the end of WWII, an ambitious bootlegger and his nightclub-singing girlfriend assemble a ragtag bunch of misfits for an impossible heist: to steal Mussolini's treasure right from his headquarters.

It has an average vote of 5.639 on TMDB.

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19. Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro makes increasingly shocking discoveries that even he can't turn a blind eye to.

It has an average vote of 6.158 on TMDB.

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20. The Wrong Trousers

The Wrong Trousers

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

It has an average vote of 7.778 on TMDB.

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