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1. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy
Votes: 592,476 | Gross: $216.43M
2. The French Dispatch (2021)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux
Votes: 150,482
3. The Boat That Rocked (2009)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.
Director: Richard Curtis | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley
Votes: 116,049 | Gross: $7.99M
4. Pump Up the Volume (1990)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.
Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano
Votes: 31,147 | Gross: $11.54M
5. La piovra (1984–2001)
TV-14 | 360 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
Stars: Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido, François Périer
Votes: 3,956
6. Born in Flames (1983)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are dealt with by the government.
Director: Lizzie Borden | Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy
Votes: 2,055
7. FM (1978)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined to fight back, no matter the cost.
Director: John A. Alonzo | Stars: Michael Brandon, Eileen Brennan, Alex Karras, Cleavon Little
Votes: 1,194
8. The Dirty Mind of Young Sally (1973)
X | 95 min | Comedy
The voluptuous, sultry, foxy owner of a pirate radio station manages to always stay one step ahead of the police who constantly try to put her hot roadshow out of business for good.
Director: Bethel Buckalew | Stars: Colleen Brennan, George 'Buck' Flower, Norman Fields, James Mathers
Votes: 322
9. Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
Not Rated | 130 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Space captain Harlock, the latest in a family of proud aerial warriors, begins his journey to free the oppressed Earth from the despotic Illumidas Command.
Director: Tomoharu Katsumata | Stars: Makio Inoue, Kei Tomiyama, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shûichi Ikeda
Votes: 1,021
10. American Nightmare (2002 Video)
R | 91 min | Horror
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
Director: Jon Keeyes | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Brandy Little, Johnny Sneed, Chris Ryan
Votes: 654
11. Weekender (2011)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Music
The rave scene has arrived from Ibiza and warehouse parties are exploding across the UK bringing phenomenal wealth to the organizers. In Manchester, best mates Matt and Dylan are in their early 20's and long to be more than just punters.
Director: Karl Golden | Stars: Zawe Ashton, Jack O'Connell, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Sam Hazeldine
Votes: 1,962
12. Dead Weekend (1995 TV Movie)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In the midst of a frantic evacuation effort in the hours preceding a predicted earthquake, True World Forces agent Weed (Stephen Baldwin) and his partner, Payne (David Rasche), must secure ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Poe | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, David Rasche, Tom Kenny, Alexis Arquette
Votes: 398
13. My Generation (I) (2017)
TV-PG | 85 min | Documentary, History
The cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s England is explored in this documentary.
Director: David Batty | Stars: Michael Caine, David Bailey, Twiggy, Mary Quant
Votes: 2,158
14. Vasika... kalispera sas (1982)
90 min | Comedy
Worlds collide in summer Athens when two rival pirate radio stations broadcast on the same frequency. As the turf war simmers, are the young competitors ready for reconciliation in the name of love?
Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Stathis Psaltis, Panos Mihalopoulos, Stamatis Gardelis, Efi Pikoula
Votes: 1,143
15. Slade in Flame (1975)
91 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Light the Rock n' Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don and their showcase of the rise and demise of rock band Flame.
Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Don Powell, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder, Dave Hill
Votes: 663
16. Young Soul Rebels (1991)
R | 105 min | Drama, Music
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber
Votes: 624
17. Something's Rockin' (2017)
40 min | Drama
Inspired by real events, Something's Rockin' tells the fascinating story of the rise and fall of "Radio Mercur", a pirate radio station founded by a small group of music-loving dreamers in the late fifties.
Stars: Andreas Jessen, Neel Rønholt, Stephania Potalivo, Jon Lange
Votes: 337
18. Brain Sex (1988)
62 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what they see in detail, feigning shock and screams as the attackers become more violent.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Marino Fujisawa, Kiyomi Itô, Reika Kazami, Simon Kumai
Votes: 95
19. Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History, War
NO! SIR! tells an almost entirely forgotten story of the military men and women who forced the U.S. government to end the Vietnam War
Director: David Zeiger | Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner, Joe Bangert, Tom Bernard
Votes: 838 | Gross: $0.11M
20. Dateline Diamonds (1965)
Not Rated | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An ex-con manages a top band in the UK, and he wants to re-enter the crime scene.
Director: Jeremy Summers | Stars: William Lucas, Kenneth Cope, George Mikell, Conrad Phillips
Votes: 175
21. Night Owl (1993 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Thriller
A pretty female radio DJ and a handsome jazz musician fall in love. Unfortunately, soon both he and his jazz friend start hearing a voice in their heads, an irresistible siren call of a deadly female spirit.
Director: Matthew Patrick | Stars: Jennifer Beals, James Wilder, Louis Ferreira, Allison Hossack
Votes: 152
22. The Lenny Henry Show (1987–1988)
30 min | Comedy
Sitcom version of The Lenny Henry Show (1984), featuring the misadventures of pirate radio DJ Delbert Wilkins.
Stars: Lenny Henry, Vas Blackwood, Michael Mears, Gina McKee
Votes: 118
23. Pirate Radio USA (2006)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
Pirate Radio USA is a feature length documentary about the underground world of unlicensed radio in the USA, where people play what they want and say what they want-unless the FCC catches ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Pearson | Stars: Jeff Pearson, Mary Jones, D.J. Popeye Kahn, Herbert Hoover
Votes: 73
24. Clara and the Why Not (1981)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Monnet | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Josiane Balasko, Christophe Bourseiller
Votes: 498
25. The Summer of Love (2017 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, Music
The story of the cultural, social, and political changes that were brought about following the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco.
Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Ryan Mandrake, Johnnie Walker, Simon Crocker, Anne Nightingale
Votes: 33
26. On the Air Live with Captain Midnight (1979)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A teenager has a mobile broadcast transmitter in his van that allows him to take over the airwaves as a renegade disc jockey.
Directors: Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian | Stars: Tracy Sebastian, John Ireland, Dena Dietrich, Ted Gehring
Votes: 68
27. You or Me (1999)
98 min | Musical, Romance, Comedy
About two friends dreaming of making it as discjockeys on commercial radio.
Director: Tamás Sas | Stars: Gabriella Gubás, Attila Király, Viktor Bodó, Karina Kecskés
Votes: 478
28. Radio Raven (1989)
99 min | Crime, Mystery
In a small French town, a pirate radio begins telling lies (or are they unsavory truths) about people and nobody seems able to catch the guilty party or even guess his or her identity.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Pierre Arditi, Christine Boisson, Evelyne Bouix
Votes: 244
29. Die große Starparade (1954)
98 min | Comedy, Music
Film about three unemployed artists who, in their distress, set up a pirate radio station and are very successful with it. Many well-known colleagues from radio and film take part in the ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Martin | Stars: Adrian Hoven, Renate Holm, Gunther Philipp, Bully Buhlan
Votes: 33
30. Pogo 1104 (1984– )
180 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Three young men somehow get together and start a pirate broadcaster.
Stars: Richy Müller, Erich Bar, Ralf Richter, Anja Schüte
Votes: 53
31. Uma Onda No Ar (2002)
92 min | Drama
Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give voice to the outcasts' complaints.
Director: Helvecio Ratton | Stars: Alexandre Moreno, Babu Santana, Adolfo Moura, Benjamim Abras
Votes: 306
32. Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra (1991)
94 min | Comedy
Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hämäläinen, Marjatta Raita, Marita Nordberg
Votes: 906
33. Making Waves (II) (2004)
64 min | Documentary
What do a public access TV personality, an electronics engineer, a Vietnam vet, a libertarian congressional candidate and a retired millionaire have in common? They're all operating ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Lahey | Stars: Shane Eden, David Forbes, Marshall Home, Aage Nost
Votes: 16
34. Please Stand By (1972)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
A media hippie revolutionary hijacks a network television van and jams the airwaves with unauthorized radical broadcasts to the nation.
Directors: Jack Milton, Joanna Milton | Stars: David Peel, Wendy Apple, Alex Bennett, A.J. Weberman
35. Radio Free Steve (2000)
82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A post-apocalyptic 1980s vision of the future.
Directors: Jules Beesley, Lars Von Biers | Stars: Ryan Junell, Jessica Schwartz, Chris Sykes, Dean Haglund
Votes: 26
36. Barrow Gang BC (1985)
102 min | Drama, Music
Director: Akiyoshi Kimata | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Hirohide Yakumaru, Toshikazu Fukawa, Shirô Itô
37. Black and White Pirate Show (1987)
60 min | Documentary
Veteran white pirate radio broadcasters discuss their past beside new black pirate disc jockeys explaining their motives.
Directors: Alan Lovell, Steve Sklair | Stars: Tony Benn, Tony Blackburn, Paul Gilroy, Ranking Miss P.
38. Hotties (1998 TV Special)
22 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Reality-TV
A tongue-in-cheek beauty contest held on city streets and nightlife hot spots.
Directors: Timothy A. Bennett, Harley Rinzler | Stars: Amy Lynn Baxter, Bobbie Jean Brown, Anthony Marino, Bunny Yeager
40. Radio Dolores (2017)
19 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The year is 1936, and shoemakers in a Finnish industrial town are sending shoes to Spain as humanitarian aid. Young Arvo wants to do more, so he joins as a volunteer in the International Brigades and disappears.
Director: Katariina Lillqvist | Star: Jotaarkka Pennanen
Votes: 30
41. Radio Voorwaarts (2018)
20 min | Short, Drama
Threatened with eviction, the inhabitants of an alternative community give one last party to simultaneously mourn and celebrate the end of their beloved space.
Director: Mateo Vega | Stars: Sam Andrea, Jeffrey Babcock, Guillermo Blinker, Sam Broekman
Votes: 8
42. Radio Nord - piraten på Östersjön (1994)
51 min | Documentary
About the pirate radio on the Baltic Sea. Radio Nord was a Swedish offshore commercial station that operated briefly from 8 March 1961 to 30 June 1962 from a ship anchored in international ... See full summary »
Director: Lennart Wetterholm | Stars: Ray Adams, Towa Carson, Nils Hörjel, Kaj Karlholm
43. Radio Free Blissville (2009)
22 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Radio Free Blissville follows a quixotic pirate radio cult in a post information city called Blissville where Internet and satellite communications have been compromised. A leader in the ... See full summary »
Director: John F. Culhane | Stars: Baqi Abdush-Shaheed, Andrew Hampsas, Joe Lihach, Marina Neary
Votes: 9
44. Radio Waves (2016)
31 min | Short
A fascinating film about truth and injustice; a widow's struggle to come to terms with the shooting of her showman husband - and the fact that his killer, a Liberal politician, walked free.
Director: Bob Hickey
45.
Secret Agent (1964–1967)
Episode:
Not So Jolly Roger
(1966)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The Jolly Roger is pirate radio station on an old sea fort. A DJ is killed just as he sends a message saying that the station is sending coded messages to foreign submarines. Drake goes undercover as a DJ to find out what is happening.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Edwin Richfield, Wilfrid Lawson, Lisa Daniely
Votes: 107
46.
The Goodies (1970–1982)
Episode:
Radio Goodies
(1970)
31 min | Comedy
The Goodies, after being rejected from having their own legal radio station because their submission was too late, decide to start their own pirate radio station outside the five-mile limit... See full summary »
Directors: Jim Franklin, John Howard Davies | Stars: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Brenda Cowling
Votes: 91
47.
Hamish Macbeth (1995–1997)
Episode:
Radio Lochdubh
(1996)
Not Rated | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hamish is ordered by authorities to shut down a popular pirate radio station, causing a conflict of interests for the officer. On the personal front, Hamish and Isobel share a moment.
Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Brian Alexander, Stuart Davids, The Incredible Fling Band, Shirley Henderson
Votes: 126
48.
Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006)
Episode:
Garage Sale
(2003)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family
The family decides to hold a garage sale to fund repairs of the bedroom wall and Lois puts Reese in charge. Hal finds his old radio-transmitter and starts running a pirate broadcast like he once operated in college.
Director: Levie Isaacks | Stars: Jane Kaczmarek, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Masterson, Justin Berfield
Votes: 763
49.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Trust Fund Pirates
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Bolivian cruise ship is attacked by pirates leading Crockett and Tubbs to enlist the help of a renegade pilot in the contraband business to solve the case.
Director: Jim Johnston | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 428
50.
T-Bag Strikes Again (1986)
Episode:
Long John Sylvia
(1986)
20 min | Family
Pirate Radio Riff Raff is awaiting a guest singer. First Jack Plugg mistakes Debbie for the artist, then Long John Sylvia assumes T.Bag to be the star.
Director: Leon Thau | Stars: Elizabeth Estensen, Jennie Stallwood, John Hasler, Jan Hunt