Movies that feel like a David Bowie song
The films and shows that come up most across 6 David Bowie songs on Soundtrackd, matched on mood, themes and setting. Each one says why it fits.
Song by song
Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
A smouldering, dangerous slow-burn of lust and menace that ignites into a full-blown blaze, all sleek neon dread.
Cat People, Inglourious Basterds, The Hunger
Heroes
Two doomed lovers meet beside the Berlin Wall and defiantly claim one perfect day of being heroes, a swelling anthem of fragile, desperate triumph.
Christiane F., The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Lives of Others
Rebel Rebel
A cheeky, strutting anthem for gender-bending outsider kids in torn dresses and mascara, defiantly flaunting who they are and shrugging off the grown-ups who don't get it.
Velvet Goldmine, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Space Oddity
An astronaut's countdown and lift-off turns into serene, lonely drift as contact with Earth is lost, leaving wonder and isolation hand in hand.
2001: A Space Odyssey, Gravity, First Man
Starman
A wide-eyed message of hope from the sky: an alien saviour who wants to meet the kids, and who tells them to let the children boogie.
The Man Who Fell to Earth, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Velvet Goldmine
The Man Who Sold the World
A haunted, dreamlike encounter with a stranger who may be your own lost self, uncanny, cool and unsettling, with an identity slipping away.
Fight Club, Black Swan, The Prestige