Cross-media picks for Depeche Mode fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a world where music is never incidental — it kidnaps, transforms, survives, and occasionally kills. From concert films exploring mortality to animated fables about artistic control, from dance-culture histories to rhythm games where sound decides everything, each one rewards the listener who feels music as more than background. Depeche Mode: M, Interstella 5555, and Love Saves the Day anchor the collection; everything else orbits the same obsession.
Film
Depeche Mode: M
Mexico City concert footage woven with reflections on mortality and Mexican culture's relationship with death.
Film
Depeche Mode 101
A backstage documentary capturing the art and business of Depeche Mode's 1988 American tour.
Film
Body Rock
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.
Film
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
Alien musicians kidnapped by a record producer, reprogrammed and renamed — a fable about identity and artistic control.
Film
Destino
A short film of love lost and rediscovered, where a woman undergoes surreal, dreamlike transformations.
Film
Second Chorus
Two rival trumpeters in a college band both pursue the same woman while competing to perform.
Film
euphoria
Six students trapped in a futuristic complex, forced to dance to a sadistic game's rules — failure means death.
Film
FUBAR Vol. 1
A disturbing mixtape of shock footage — raw, confrontational, and relentlessly unsettling.
Series
Dance Plus
Solo, couple, and group performances showcasing revolutionary dance styles and evolving trends.
Series
takt op.Destiny
Alien monsters steal music from the world — a sci-fi series built on sound as life-giving light.
Series
White Album 2
The last member of a school music club plays guitar alone — a melancholy romance of missed connections.
Series
Chance Pop Session
Three strangers united by a passion for music find their lives transformed by a single concert.
Series
Dance Deewane
Dancers from three generations compete against each other in their own categories for a grand finale.
Series
Sunny Mood
Xie Na and friends plan a short escape together — a lighthearted reality show about shared downtime.
Series
Paradox Live THE ANIMATION
Hip-hop artists wear Phantom Metal that reacts to their emotions, producing spectacular images in live battles.
Game
Savant - Ascent REMIX
An adrenaline-fuelled tower climb through robot hordes, with acrobatic moves and powerful spells.
Game
Friday night funkin: whitty mod (lo-fight) with music
A rhythm battle mod where musical call-and-response decides everything under pressure.
Game
Stereo Aereo
An 80s-inspired space shooter where a mediocre rock band must reach their life-changing concert.
Game
Mixtape (2025)
Three friends on their last high-school night play through memories set to a generation-defining soundtrack.
Game
Soundodger+
Bullet-hell meets rhythm game — every track becomes a gauntlet where dodging and sound are inseparable.
Game
Friday Night Funkin' (ninjamuffin99, PhantomArcade)
Beat your girlfriend's ex-rockstar dad in rhythm battles or he'll kill you — absurdist stakes, compulsive matching.
Game
Just Dance 3
Over 45 tracks across genres turn music into collective physical joy for all ages.
Game
BeastBeat
A rhythm game where hitting beats advances explicit visual stages — adult content, public early-access version.
Book
Electronic music
A technical guide to analog synthesis and subtractive techniques — the mechanics behind electronic sound.
Book
Analog days
How the synthesizer's radical arrival transformed musical culture — the story of an extraordinary new instrument.
Book
Rhythm of Love
A keyboard player loses her place in the band and risks losing the boy she loves along with it.
Book
L'ordine del tempo
Carlo Rovelli's popular-science meditation on the nature of time and why it flows the way it does.
Book
Top model per un giorno
Students at a school fashion show choose music, lighting, and costumes — creativity as collaborative spectacle.
Book
Love saves the day
A cultural history of 1970s American dance music: the DJs, venues, and movements that defined the era.
Book
3 secondes
An experimental graphic novel crime story set at a soccer match — the reader reconstructs the narrative.
Book
Dincolo de portocali
A young writer vanishes, leaving a mysterious manuscript for his brother to find.
Start with the documentaries Depeche Mode: M and Depeche Mode 101, which capture the band's live world and backstage reality. For something stranger, Interstella 5555 is an animated sci-fi fable about musicians kidnapped and reprogrammed by a record producer.
Yes — Analog Days chronicles the synthesizer's revolutionary arrival and the instrument that made electronic music possible. Love Saves the Day maps American dance music culture in the 1970s, tracing the underground roots of the electronic and club sounds that followed.
Soundodger+ turns tracks into bullet-hell gauntlets where rhythm and survival merge. Mixtape (2025) is a nostalgic adventure set to a generation-defining soundtrack featuring acts from the same era.