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The Boat That Rocked(2009)

2h 15min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 947 votes)

An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".

Directed by Richard Curtis - With Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Talulah Riley, ...

One Hundred Steps(2000)

1h 54min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 293 votes)

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s small-town Sicily. Despite living in a family with Mafia ties, one hundred steps away from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino denounces the whole Mafia system by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana - With Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia, Tony Sperandeo, Andrea Tidona, ...

Pump Up the Volume(1990)

1h 45min | Music, Drama
3.5/5 (with 142 votes)

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.

Directed by Allan Moyle - With Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Andy Romano, Annie Ross, Ellen Greene, Holly Sampson, ...

Radiofreccia(1998)

1h 52min | Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 158 votes)

April 24, 1993: it's the last broadcast of Radiofreccia, a small radio station that's closing after 18 years, barely one minute before coming of age. Bruno, one of its founders, starts to tell its story, which is also the story of a group of friends – especially troubled Freccia's – and a period of their youth in a little Northern Italian town.

Directed by Luciano Ligabue - With Stefano Accorsi, Luciano Federico, Serena Grandi, Francesco Guccini, Cristina Moglia, Patrizia Piccinini, ...

Piratensender Powerplay(1982)

1h 25min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Tommy and Mike operate a famous pirate radio station, Germany's most listened-to radio station. The police and the operators of the Bavarian Broadcast Company try to stop their illegal broadcast.

Directed by Sigi Rothemund - With Thomas Gottschalk, Mike Krüger, Evelyn Hamann, Rainer Basedow, Willy Harlander, Ralf Wolter, ...

The Dirty Mind of Young Sally(1973)

1h 35min | Comedy
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Sally runs a mobile "pirate" radio station--which she operates from her van--where, in her sexy and sultry voice, she encourages her listeners (mostly teenagers) to use the music she plays "to ball by". She also takes calls from her listeners and even offers herself as a prize in a contest. Her show is so popular it winds up "turning on" large numbers of the local population. The authorities, of course, can't allow that to happen, so they send out the cops to find her and shut her down.

Working Slowly (Radio Alice)(2004)

1h 51min | Drama, Comedy, History
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.

Directed by Guido Chiesa - With Claudia Pandolfi, Valerio Mastandrea, Tommaso Ramenghi, Valerio Binasco, Massimo Coppola, Jacopo Bonvicini, ...

Young Soul Rebels(1991)

1h 45min | Drama, Mystery, Music
2.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

Directed by Isaac Julien

Good Evening to You(1982)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Stathis is a teenager who owns a pirate radio station that broadcasts at the same frequency used by another pirate radio station, owned by Stamatis and his friends. This leads to many conflicts between them, and as if this wasn't enough, Stathis is also desperately in love with Koula and has to face her huge boyfriend Kyriakos...

Directed by Yannis Dalianidis - With Panos Mihalopoulos, Stamatis Gardelis, Sofia Aliberti, Spiros Kalogirou, Nikos Kouros, ...

Uma Onda no Ar(2002)

1h 32min | Drama, Action
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

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.

Directed by Helvécio Ratton - With Alexandre Moreno, Obied bin saleh

Let Our Voices Be Heard Too(1971)

17min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A loving portrait of a pirate radio station, which is run by the rural population with plenty of passion and talent in the face of opposition from the authorities.

On the Air Live with Captain Midnight(1979)

1h 30min | Comedy

A suburban teen stars a pirate radio station in the back of his van and becomes a cult hero.

Directed by Beverly Sebastian
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Pirates(1999)

1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Music
4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A pirate radio, the girl next door, and a test of friendship.

Directed by Tamás Sas

Pirates of the Airwaves(2014)

1h 10min | Documentary, Drama, TV Movie

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radio station aboard a ship in the Hauraki Gulf.

Space Hackers(2007)

52min | Documentary

The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometown of Turin. But one night, they recorded something quite different from the usual static that would change their lives forever...

Piratene(1983)

1h 33min | Action, Drama, Adventure

The film follows a gang of unemployed youth in the little town of Svolvær, Lofoten, starting up an illegal radio-channel called "Radio Feskslog".

Directed by Morten Kolstad - With Trond Peter Stamsø Munch, Kristian Fr. Figenschow jr., Guri Johnson