Movies that feel like a Sade song

The films and shows that come up most across 6 Sade songs on Soundtrackd, matched on mood, themes and setting. Each one says why it fits.

1997

Love Jones

Smoky, jazz-and-poetry Chicago romance with the same late-night, grown-up intimacy. For 4 songs, including By Your Side.

2000

In the Mood for Love

Restrained, aching devotion in dim rooms, released the same year as the song. For 4 songs, including By Your Side.

2016

Moonlight

Hushed, tender intimacy and comfort, with a slow, dreamy ache. For 4 songs, including By Your Side.

2002

Brown Sugar

A warm, soulful story of lasting love and friends who slowly realize they belong together. For 3 songs, including By Your Side.

2014

Beyond the Lights

A lover who stays by a wounded partner's side and helps her heal. For 3 songs, including By Your Side.

2015

Carol

A love treated as transgressive, told through glances, glamour and aching restraint. For 3 songs, including Is It a Crime.

2016

Insecure

Modern, soulful look at love, loyalty and heartbreak, with a moody and smooth soundtrack. For 2 songs, including By Your Side.

1999

The Best Man

Loyalty, forgiveness and love tested among close friends, with a smooth R&B mood. For By Your Side.

2004

Before Sunset

Quiet, tender conversation between two people who still feel a deep pull. For By Your Side.

2015

Brooklyn

Gentle, elegant 1950s romance about loving fully and the pain of being torn between places and people. For Is It a Crime.

1995

Before Sunrise

A night of talk and connection that feels like being brought back to life by a new love. For Kiss of Life.

1997

Jackie Brown

Grown-up, soulful romance with a sleek, stylish groove and a late-in-life second chance. For Kiss of Life.

Try your own song

Song by song

By Your Side

A tender, steady vow of devotion, offering comfort and loyalty to a lover who is hurting, wrapped in late-night calm.

Love Jones, In the Mood for Love, Brown Sugar

Is It a Crime

A velvet-voiced, aching plea of devotion: a lover swearing her love is vast as the sea and the sky, and asking whether such total longing could be wrong.

In the Mood for Love, Love Jones, Carol

Kiss of Life

A tender, buoyant love song about being revived by someone's touch: calm, glowing and quietly joyful, like a slow-dance moment after a long night.

Love Jones, In the Mood for Love, Before Sunrise

Like a Tattoo

A hushed, mournful meditation on a young boy's death from violence, told with tender, weary compassion and no melodrama.

Boyz n the Hood, Moonlight, The Wire

Paradise

A cool, sensual, late-night glide where love is a private refuge, sung with unhurried confidence and a touch of melancholy.

In the Mood for Love, Love Jones, Carol

Pearls

A dignified, sorrowful portrait of a Somali woman who scrapes by in a famine, with a hushed and haunting tone that sets her fragile resilience against the cold comfort of the world watching.

Black Hawk Down, Captain Phillips, Hotel Rwanda