Movies that feel like a Sufjan Stevens song

The films and shows that come up most across 5 Sufjan Stevens songs on Soundtrackd, matched on mood, themes and setting. Each one says why it fits.

2013

Nebraska

A quiet Midwest road journey with forgiveness and family at its heart. For 2 songs, including Chicago.

2019

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

A hushed, yearning love story full of glances and the pain of a romance that can't last. For 2 songs, including Mystery of Love.

2016

Moonlight

A tender, intimate portrait of queer desire and first touch across a lifetime. For 2 songs, including Mystery of Love.

2005

Brokeback Mountain

Quiet, devastating love in a beautiful landscape, with longing that never fully speaks. For 2 songs, including Mystery of Love.

2017

Call Me by Your Name

Features Sufjan's music and shares the aching, bittersweet swell of a transformative moment and its tender aftermath. For 4 songs, including Chicago.

1986

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

A joyful love letter to Chicago, its streets and skyline, full of youthful freedom. For Chicago.

2006

Little Miss Sunshine

An indie road trip through America with a mismatched family, funny, sad and cathartic. For Chicago.

2014

Boyhood

Midwest-ish American growing up through the 2000s, tracing change, loss and open-ended hope. For Chicago.

2022

The Bear

Chicago-set and emotionally raw, about starting over and making peace with the past. For Chicago.

2016

Manchester by the Sea

Grief that people can't put into words, set in a quiet American town. For Fourth of July.

2001

Six Feet Under

A family faces death head-on, and its finale is a montage about mortality that echoes "we're all gonna die." For Fourth of July.

2019

The Farewell

A family gathers around a dying matriarch, with love and avoidance in the same room. For Fourth of July.

Try your own song

Song by song

Chicago

A road-trip elegy of leaving home and starting over, where youthful hope, regret and forgiveness swell into a soaring, tearful release.

Call Me by Your Name, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Lady Bird

A son sits at his dying mother's bedside, trading tender last words and unresolved hurt, and the song ends on the repeated line "we're all gonna die," which is both devastating and strangely consoling.

Call Me by Your Name, Manchester by the Sea, Six Feet Under

Futile Devices (Doveman Remix)

A whispered plea of love and protectiveness between brothers, drifting through soft electronic haze that makes the tenderness feel both intimate and quietly aching.

Call Me by Your Name, Moonlight, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Mystery of Love

A tender, aching meditation on first desire and the bewildering, sacred mystery of love, wistful and sun-warmed yet tinged with heartbreak.

Call Me by Your Name, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Moonlight

Visions of Gideon

An aching, dreamlike lament for a summer love that can't last, sung with trembling tenderness and the sense of memory already pulling it away.

Call Me by Your Name, Brokeback Mountain, Carol