Cross-media picks for Motörhead fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share the raw, uncompromising energy that draws people to hard and heavy music — the refusal to apologise, the outsider swagger, the noise that drowns out the boring world. You'll find it in animated midnight-movie mayhem like Heavy Metal, in the righteous chaos of Pistol, in games like Brutal Legend that treat metal as a whole cosmology, and in books that dig into the real lives and uglier truths behind the music. Fast, loud, and uncommercial runs through all of it.
Film
Rock & Rule
Rock music and demon-summoning collide in this animated cult film where a band fights a villainous rock star.
Film
Airheads
Heavy-metal underdogs hijack a radio station to force the world to hear their music — pure outlaw spirit.
Film
Heavy Metal
Dark fantasy, horror, and eroticism tied together by a pulsing rock soundtrack — midnight-movie fuel.
Film
Body Rock
A New York breakdancer gets lured away from his roots by money and status in this cautionary music drama.
Film
Metalhead
A grieving young woman finds identity and salvation in metal, dreaming of making the music herself.
Film
Rockers
A Jamaican drummer adapts and survives after his motorcycle is stolen, staying loyal to his community and music.
Film
Mad Max
A savage motorcycle gang terrorises the roads in a brutal near-future where outlaws own the asphalt.
Film
Crash
A darkly obsessive thriller about underground subcultures and the collision of speed, danger, and desire.
Series
Pistol
The Sex Pistols' rise is captured as working-class fury that threatened to bring down the Establishment itself.
Series
takt op.Destiny
Music is the last light in a world overrun by monsters — a high-energy anime about fighting for sound itself.
Series
Motorheads
Siblings enter a world of street racing and car culture, haunted by their father's dark past.
Series
Boone
A young man defies his stern father's expectations to pursue a life in rock and roll in 1950s Tennessee.
Series
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll
An aging rock bad-boy chases one last shot at relevance as a songwriter — funny, raw, and self-aware.
Series
Classic Albums
Deep-dive documentary series unpacking the making of landmark rock and pop albums, one at a time.
Series
Roadkill
Petrolheads hit the road in busted hot rods, held together by sheer stubbornness and mechanical love.
Series
3rd Rock from the Sun
Alien outsiders stumble through human life with baffled curiosity — a comedy built on being permanently out of place.
Game
Motorslice
Fluid parkour through a decayed megastructure, climbing massive bosses with immaculate action-game energy.
Game
Rock Band 2
Master guitar, bass, drums, and vocals in the most ambitious rock-band music game of its era.
Game
Double Kick Heroes
A metal rhythm game set in a zombie apocalypse where your drumkit doubles as a weapon on a muscle car.
Game
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Shred through an all-80s hard rock setlist with a guitar controller in hand — pure era-appropriate noise.
Game
nail'd
Breakneck off-road racing on near-vertical mountainsides demanding lightning reflexes and raw aggression.
Game
The Beatles: Rock Band
Play drums, guitar, and bass through the Beatles' legendary career in this faithful music-game tribute.
Game
Guitar Hero
Strap on the controller and shred 30 rock anthems — the game that put air guitar on a leaderboard.
Game
Brutal Legend
A roadie is transported into a world built entirely on heavy metal mythology — action-strategy at full volume.
Book
Slash
Slash's memoir redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll from the perspective of one of its great practitioners.
Book
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
Sharp critical essays on Bowie, Iggy Pop, the Clash, and more — rock writing that matches the music's intensity.
Book
Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose
Chronicles how Black Sabbath built the template for heavy metal — the band that arguably started it all.
Book
Rock and roll, 1955-1970
A comprehensive history tracing rock's roots through rhythm and blues, solo stars, and the rise of supergroups.
Book
Everybody needs a rock
A picture book on choosing the perfect rock for play and pleasure — simple, tactile, and earnest.
Book
Without You
Badfinger's story is one of pop brilliance and devastating misfortune — a cautionary tale of the music industry.
Book
Detroit 67
Soul music comes of age amid urban riots and Vietnam-era upheaval — a city and its sound at a turning point.
Book
Roadshow: Landscape With Drums
Rush's drummer recounts fifty-seven shows across nine countries, travelling by motorcycle between every date.
Start with Heavy Metal (1981) for animated dark-fantasy rock energy, Pistol for the raw working-class fury of punk's birth, or Rock & Rule for a cult animated film where a villainous rock star tries to summon a demon.
Brutal Legend puts you inside a world built entirely on heavy metal mythology, while Double Kick Heroes is a metal rhythm game set in a zombie apocalypse where your drumkit doubles as a weapon on a muscle car.
Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose chronicles the band that laid heavy metal's foundation, and Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung collects sharp rock criticism covering Iggy Pop, the Clash, and the raw edge of the era.