Movies that feel like a song by The National
The films and shows that come up most across 5 The National songs on Soundtrackd, matched on mood, themes and setting. Each one says why it fits.
Song by song
Bloodbuzz Ohio
A wistful, anxious homecoming: a man weighed down by debt and dislocation drifts back to the Ohio of his youth, wanting to be held by something familiar.
Nebraska, Garden State, Rachel Getting Married
England
A hushed, aching, slow-building portrait of a man adrift in love and distance, longing for connection while sinking under his own weight and a rain-soaked, melancholic England.
Brief Encounter, Normal People, Weekend
Fake Empire
A hushed, anxious drift through comfortable adult malaise that slowly swells into a bittersweet, hopeful release.
Revolutionary Road, Lost in Translation, Mad Men
I Need My Girl
A quietly devastated longing for a lost love, where memory, self-deprecation and tenderness blur into a plea to be rescued by one person.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blue Valentine, Her
Sorrow
A weary, tender surrender to sadness: a man admitting that sorrow has found him again and that he lives in it, quietly and without drama.
Manchester by the Sea, Lost in Translation, Marriage Story