
10 Best Movies Like CBGB
If you loved CBGB, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Times Square
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CBGB for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure....

Cadillac Records
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CBGB for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Ches...

Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CBGB for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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...

Roxanne Roxanne
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CBGB for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to b...

The Joker is Wild
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CBGB for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss....

Beats
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to CBGB for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts....