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10 Best Movies Like Pump Up the Volume

If you loved Pump Up the Volume, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pump Up the Volume for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

#2
Bravetown

Bravetown

2015★ 6.7

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

After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy...

#3
King Creole

King Creole

1958★ 6.4

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

Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the loc...

#4
The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

1931★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pump Up the Volume for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street ...

#5
Hereafter

Hereafter

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pump Up the Volume for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways....

#6
Dangerous Minds

Dangerous Minds

1995★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pump Up the Volume for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, ...

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