Movies that feel like an Ethel Cain song
The films and shows that come up most across 6 Ethel Cain songs on Soundtrackd, matched on mood, themes and setting. Each one says why it fits.
Song by song
Crush
A trembling, hushed ache of teenage longing, where an all-consuming crush feels both tender and quietly doomed.
The Virgin Suicides, Aftersun, Call Me by Your Name
Gibson Girl
A slow‑burning, eerie melancholy that feels both reverent of old‑world glamour and deeply unsettled.
The Love Witch, Midsommar, Twin Peaks
God's Country
A hazy, mournful hymn to a beloved and suffocating home, where the beauty of the land and the rot beneath it are the same thing.
Badlands, The Virgin Suicides, American Honey
Golden Age
A hazy, aching memory of a lost, golden youth, tender and elegiac, glowing with nostalgia while knowing it can't be returned to.
The Virgin Suicides, Lady Bird, Days of Heaven
Ptolemaea
A haunting, slow‑burning ache that feels like staring into an endless, star‑filled void while the world around you crumbles.
The Witch, Midsommar, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Strangers
A mournful, dissolving farewell from beyond death: a woman who has been devoured by the man she loved and the America around her gives a final, tender, hollowed-out goodbye to the world.
Badlands, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive