Films and TV shows that feel like Someone Like You by Adele
The agonizing grace of watching someone you still love move on into a life that no longer includes you.
- Normal People (2020): It captures the agonizing ache of first love slipping through your fingers despite an enduring connection.
- Past Lives (2023): Both explore the quiet grief of running into a ghost from your past who is now someone else's future.
- Blue Valentine (2010): It mirrors the visceral devastation of watching a once-profound romance slowly wither away.
- Fleabag (2016): The heartbreaking recognition that loving someone deeply sometimes means having to let them walk away.
- Her (2013): It channels the profound emptiness left behind when the person who defined your world is suddenly gone.
- Brief Encounter (1945): The ultimate cinematic expression of dignified heartache and parting with someone you never stopped loving.
- Before Sunset (2004): It embodies the haunting weight of missed opportunities and the years that pile up after a separation.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Both grapple with the unbearable persistence of memory and the pain of an untied emotional knot.
