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Movies that feel like a Smiths song

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

Control poster
2007
Control
Black-and-white portrait of Ian Curtis in grey northern England, with depression and a beautiful, doomed sadness. For 6 songs, including Asleep.
This Is England poster
2007
This Is England
Working-class 1980s England, a lonely boy and the bleak, bruised mood of the Smiths era. For 5 songs, including Asleep.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower poster
2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The song appears in this story of a fragile, isolated teenager finding solace while fighting dark feelings. For 4 songs, including Asleep.
Submarine poster
2011
Submarine
A wry, tender teen outsider drifts through gloom and longing to a wistful indie soundtrack. For 4 songs, including Asleep.
Sing Street poster
2016
Sing Street
1980s teen outsiders form a band, with that same jangling heartache and humour. For 3 songs, including Bigmouth Strikes Again.
Skins poster
2007
Skins
British teenagers struggling with isolation, grief and mental health, with raw tenderness. For 2 songs, including Asleep.
Pump Up the Volume poster
1990
Pump Up the Volume
A lonely, misunderstood teen speaks into the dark, with suicide and alienation running through it. For 2 songs, including Asleep.
Billy Elliot poster
2000
Billy Elliot
A boy in a grim 1980s northern town dreams of escape. For 2 songs, including There Is a Light That Never Goes Out.
13 Reasons Why poster
2017
13 Reasons Why
Teenage despair and the pain of feeling unseen, handled with a heavy, aching tone. For Asleep.
Donnie Darko poster
2001
Donnie Darko
An alienated teenager, 80s setting and a dreamlike pull toward the end. For Asleep.
Distant Voices, Still Lives poster
1988
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Terence Davies' aching memory-piece of a working-class family home in postwar Liverpool, soaked in nostalgia and sorrow. For Back to the Old House.
Brooklyn poster
2015
Brooklyn
Tugged between home and elsewhere, with the pain of leaving and returning to a place you love. For Back to the Old House.
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Song by song

Asleep

A tender, weary lullaby to death, begging to slip away from a world that hurts, gentle and heartbreaking at once.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Submarine, Control

Back to the Old House

A quiet, bittersweet pull toward a past home and a lost love, wrapped in resigned, rainy-day longing.

Distant Voices, Still Lives, This Is England, Control

Bigmouth Strikes Again

A witty, self-sabotaging confession of a loudmouth who says the wrong thing, cringes at himself, and wraps the humiliation in black humour and wounded romanticism.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, This Is England

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

A jangly, bouncing tune carries lyrics of lovelorn, job-hunting gloom delivered with self-mocking wit, so the sadness feels both real and funny.

Control, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Submarine

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

A lonely, romantic young outsider dreams of escaping in a night drive with someone he loves, even if it ends in a fatal crash, because dying beside them would be a heavenly way to go.

(500) Days of Summer, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Submarine

This Charming Man

A dapper, teasing, slightly awkward flirtation told with arch wit and bright jangling guitar over a lonely, wistful core.

Pride, The Virgin Suicides, Sing Street

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