2020s

Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Caught Stealing’

Caught Stealing Soundtrack - Every Song in the 2025 Movie on Amazon and Netflix

The Caught Stealing soundtrack includes music by Idles, Meredith Brooks and Buzzcocks. This info article contains spoilers and song details for Darren Aronofsky’s 2025 movie. Check out Vague Visages’ Soundtracks of Cinema category for more soundtrack song listings.

Caught Stealing stars Austin Butler as Hank Thompson, a New York City bartender from San Francisco. Matt Smith co-stars as Russ, the protagonist’s English neighbor. The storyline follows Hank as he gets mixed up with Russian mobsters and a corrupt detective. Composer Rob Simonsen (The Whale) scored the 107-minute film; music supervisor Jen Malone (Atlanta) selected the featured needle-drops. Here’s every song in Caught Stealing, an adaptation of Charlie Huston’s 2004 novel.

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Caught Stealing Soundtrack: Every Song in the 2025 Movie

Caught Stealing Soundtrack - Every Song in the 2025 Movie on Amazon and Netflix

  • “Doom” by Idles (00:01:00): The Caught Stealing soundtrack song accompanies the opening sequence. A baseball game concludes as the camera zooms out. The track continues during a 1998 scene.
  • “I Think I’m Paranoid” by Garbage (00:02:00): Hank bartends at Paul’s Bar. The Caught Stealing music plays from the speaker system. Hank talks to the owner, Paul (Griffin Dunne).
  • “Walkin’ on the Sun” by Smash Mouth (00:02:00): A bar scene continues. Hank chats with a patron named Amtrak (Action Bronson) about Major League Baseball. He tells a group of people to stop dancing.
  • “Sex and Candy” by Marcy Playground (00:03:00): Hank cleans up Paul’s Bar. The Caught Stealing soundtrack song plays from the speaker system. Hank chats with his girlfriend. Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz).
  • “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer (00:11:00): Hank arrives at his apartment door and gets confronted by two Russian mobsters. Pavel (Nikita Kukushkin) briefly sings the tune. The music is featured again at 00:36:00.
  • “Rock You Like a Hurricane” by Scorpions (00:12:00): Hank gets kicked by Pavel. He travels with Dale (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai) during a transition scene. The Caught Stealing music is featured again at 00:32:00.
  • “Lurking in the Dark” by King Diamond (00:20:00): Hanks walks down a sidewalk. The Caught Stealing soundtrack song plays from a passing vehicle. Hank observes a man outside Neno’s Pizza.
  • “Ray of Light” by Madonna (00:28:00): Hank navigates a night club. The Caught Stealing music plays from a speaker system. Hank calls out to Paul.
  • “Bitch” by Meredith Brooks (00:29:00): A bar scene continues. Hanks dances on a pool table. A group of bar patrons sing along to the music.
  • “Giants Fight Song” by Allyn Ferguson and Hugh Heller (00:30:00): A bar scene continues. Hank drunkenly sings the San Francisco Giants anthem. He leaves the bar with Yvonne.
  • “Wandering Star” by War (00:39:00): Yvonne treats a wound on Hank during an apartment scene. The Caught Stealing soundtrack song plays from a speaker system. Yvonne and Hank rest side-by-side on a bed.
  • “Police and Thieves” by Idles (00:59:00): Russ starts a vehicle. Hank stops music playing from the speaker system. The track is featured again at 01:09:00.
  • “What Do I Get?” by Buzzcocks (01:03:00): Russ enters his storage locker office with Hank. The Caught Stealing music plays from a speaker system. Russ discusses how he acquired four million dollars.
  • “Rabbit Run” by Idles (01:11:00): The Caught Stealing soundtrack song scores an exterior sequence. Hank and Russ approach Shea Stadium. The track scores the film’s end credits at 01:42:00.
  • “Murderer” by Buju Banton (01:13:00): Hank walks outdoors with Russ’ cat. He boards a bus. Hank exits a bus near Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island.
  • “WCBS-FM DJ Jingle” by Jonathan Wolfert/Jam Creative Productions, Inc. (01:19:00): Lipa (Liev Schreiber) opens a car door for Hank. The Caught Stealing tune plays from the vehicle’s speaker system.
  • “Calendar Girl” by Neil Sedaka (01:19:00): Lipa drives his vehicle. The Caught Stealing soundtrack song plays from the speaker system. Lipa talks to Hank and says, “It’s a nice cat.”
  • “Copacabana (at the Copa)” by Barry Manilow (01:32:00): Hank starts Lipa’s vehicle. The track plays as he puts a seat belt on. Lipa says, “Drive the car, Hank. Please.”
  • “Mi Tesoro” by Los Relampagos del Norte (01:38:00): Hank calls his mother (Laura Dern). A transition sequence begins. Hank arrives in Tulum, Mexico.
  • “The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side” by The Magnetic Fields (01:40:00): Hank watches a baseball game in Tulum. He turns off a television. The Caught Stealing music scores the film’s final moments and credits scene.

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The Caught Stealing soundtrack also includes:

  • “Be My Lover” by La Bouche
  • “WFAN Mike and the Mad Dog Theme” by Jonathan Wolfert/Jam Creative Productions, Inc.
  • “Entry of the Gladiators” by Julius Fucík
  • “Blueeyed Devil” by Soul Coughing
  • “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” by Spin Doctors
  • “Satan” by Orbital
  • “Closing Time” by Semisonic
  • “Call the Doctor” by Sleater-Kinney
  • “I’m Afraid of Americans” by David Bowie
  • “Dance with Me” by Orleans
  • “Cheerleader” by Idles
  • “The Moon Represents My Heart” by Jia Lin Sun and Qing Xi Weng
  • “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” by Blue Öyster Cult
  • “Down Home Girl” by Alvin Robinson
  • “Coper” by Idles
  • “Trojan Warrior’s Charge” by Tommy Walker and Dick Winslow
  • “His Name Is Mutty Ranks” by A Tribe Called Quest
  • “Don (Don Don Don)” by Shura

Q.V. Hough (@QVHough) is Vague Visages’ founding editor.