Films and TV shows that feel like People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band

A furious, funny, grief-soaked roll call of friends lost young to drugs, accidents and violence, shouted as a eulogy and a defiant celebration of survival.

1. The Basketball Diaries (1995): Jim Carroll's own memoir of teenage addiction and dead friends in New York, with the song in its world.
2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): The song famously plays in the film's Halloween-era suburban kid scenes, a surprising famous use.
3. Trainspotting (1996): Friends lost to heroin and death told with black humor and punk energy.
4. Kids (1995): Raw, unflinching New York teen street life where recklessness has deadly consequences.
5. Dazed and Confused (1993): Nostalgic rock-soaked adolescence, the wild side of growing up in the 1970s.
6. Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979): Late-70s punk attitude and anarchic youth energy.
7. Christiane F. (1981): Teen heroin addiction and the toll on friends in a gritty city.
8. Vinyl (2016): Grimy 1970s New York music scene with punk, drugs, and casualties.