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Movies Like Rave, Dancing to a Different Beat

If you liked Rave, Dancing to a Different Beat (1993), a movie directed by Adolfo Quinones, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Human Traffic

    Human Traffic (1999)

    ★ 6.8/10

    For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina, and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That's when they cut very loose and get on the rollercoaster ride that takes them right through…

  2. 2Go

    Go (1999)

    ★ 7/10

    A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.

  3. 3Foxy Brown

    Foxy Brown (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

  4. 4Kids

    Kids (1995)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

  5. 5Easy Rider

    Easy Rider (1969)

    ★ 7/10

    Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

  6. 6Groove

    Groove (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10

    An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.

  7. 7Smiley Face

    Smiley Face (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug…

  8. 8Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.

  9. 9Party Girl

    Party Girl (1995)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so…

  10. 10The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

    The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels…

  11. 11Nowhere

    Nowhere (1997)

    ★ 6.8/10

    In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest…

  12. 12Valley of the Dolls

    Valley of the Dolls (1967)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."

  13. 13Savage Streets

    Savage Streets (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches for deadly vengeance against the gang members who assaulted her deaf-mute sister.

  14. 14Nice Dreams

    Nice Dreams (1981)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thoroughly wacky comedy. The outrageous, permanently spaced-out duo sells enough of their "specially mixed" ice cream to…

  15. 15Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate…

  16. 16Up in Smoke

    Up in Smoke (1978)

    ★ 6.6/10

    An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for…

  17. 17Valley Girl

    Valley Girl (1983)

    ★ 6/10

    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.

  18. 18X

    X (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A veteran call girl and a runaway prostitute witness a murder which sends them on an out-of-control roller coaster ride through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale.

  19. 19The Souvenir

    The Souvenir (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

  20. 20A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10

    In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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