Films and TV shows that feel like I Fought the Law by The Clash
A cocky, defiant outlaw anthem with a grin: the rebel knows he's going to lose to the system and sings about it anyway.
- Rude Boy (1980): It stars The Clash and follows a disillusioned punk fan in a bleak, politically tense Britain.
- Quadrophenia (1979): Restless working-class youth, clashes with police and a rebel streak that ends in a hard comedown.
- Sid and Nancy (1986): The punk scene's self-destructive outlaw romance, played out in squalid London rooms.
- Trainspotting (1996): Gallows humour and anti-authority attitude from kids who know the system is stacked against them.
- Made in Dagenham (2010): Working-class defiance against the system is the story, and it plays as a fight with a more hopeful outcome.
- This Is England (2007): Boys on the margins find belonging and trouble in a grey Britain of subcultures and run-ins with the authorities.
- Peaky Blinders (2013): Swaggering outlaws who take on the law and the establishment, with a punky, anachronistic soundtrack.
- Skins (2007): Chaotic, rule-breaking teenagers in a drab Bristol, with plenty of cheek and consequences.
