Films and TV shows that feel like Walk On the Wild Side by Lou Reed

A cool, deadpan travelogue of drifters, hustlers and drag queens making their way from Florida to 1970s New York, told with tender, unjudging nonchalance.

1. Velvet Goldmine (1998): Glam-rock era of Bowie and Reed-like icons, androgyny and sexual freedom.
2. Midnight Cowboy (1969): A hustler drifts from the South into grimy New York and falls in with Warhol-scene outcasts.
3. POSE (2018): Trans and queer chosen families and ballroom life in New York, told with the same unjudging warmth.
4. Taxi Driver (1976): Seedy, neon-lit 1970s New York streets and the people on the margins.
5. The Deuce (2017): Times Square's 1970s hustlers, sex workers and dreamers, rendered with sympathy and grit.
6. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001): A glam-rock, gender-crossing journey of reinvention.
7. Paris Is Burning (1991): Documentary of New York drag culture, outsiders building their own world.
8. I Shot Andy Warhol (1996): Inside Warhol's Factory and its eccentric superstars, the very people Reed sings about.