Movies that feel like a Radiohead song
The films and shows that come up most across 12 Radiohead songs on Soundtrackd, matched on mood, themes and setting. Each one says why it fits.
Song by song
All I Need
A devastatingly tender song of obsessive, one-sided dependence, where love feels like being a moth, a fly in a jar, small and consumed, rising from quiet ache to overwhelming release.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Her, Blue Valentine
Black Star
A weary, hazy ache of low self-worth and fading love, where everything feels off-kilter and you are quietly begging not to be left alone with your own gloom.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Submarine
Climbing Up the Walls
A paranoid, claustrophobic nightmare of a mind closing in on itself, with menace creeping in from all sides and a scream finally breaking out.
Se7en, Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream
Creep
A painfully self-aware outsider watches someone beautiful from the edges, consumed by longing and self-loathing, convinced he doesn't belong.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Submarine, Ghost World
Everything In Its Right Place
A cool, fragmented, quietly unsettled song about numbness and dissociation, where everything seems calm and ordered but something feels off beneath the surface.
Mr. Robot, Severance, Lost in Translation
Exit Music (For A Film)
A doomed lovers' plea to escape before it's too late, hushed and tender at first, then swelling into desperate, suffocating fury.
Romeo + Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Atonement
Fake Plastic Trees
A tender, weary lament about artificial lives, consumer emptiness and exhaustion, that swells into a moment of raw, cracked-open humanity.
American Beauty, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Go Slowly
A whispered, weary plea to slow down, drifting through a numb, dreamlike haze of tenderness and quiet unease.
Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Her
High and Dry
A tender, aching song about being abandoned and fearing you're the one who gets left behind, wrapped in wounded vulnerability and quiet self-doubt.
Almost Famous, High Fidelity, Submarine
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
A tense, glowing rush of anticipation: strangers, drink and the last hour of a night, all hurtling toward a moment that is about to happen.
Lost in Translation, Before Sunrise, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Karma Police
A calm, piano-led sneer at authority and conformity that slowly unravels into woozy, frayed-nerve paranoia and self-loss.
Black Mirror, The Lives of Others, Fight Club
Last Flowers
A quiet, trembling farewell to a fading world: love and dread held together, sadness that feels both intimate and apocalyptic.
Children of Men, Melancholia, Her