Films and TV shows that feel like Back To Black by Amy Winehouse
A bruised, defiant lament of heartbreak and self-destruction, sung with dark humour and the knowledge that she'll slide back into the darkness.
- Back to Black (2024): The Amy Winehouse biopic itself, tracing the romance and ruin behind the song.
- Amy (2015): Devastating documentary on her rise, love and addiction in her own words.
- Blue Valentine (2010): A love story that curdles, with the same tender, aching inevitability.
- Control (2007): Moody black-and-white portrait of a doomed British musician and the people around him.
- Sid and Nancy (1986): Co-dependent love and drugs spiralling toward tragedy.
- Skins (2007): Messy British youth, addiction and heartbreak with gallows humour.
- Fleabag (2016): A sharp-tongued London woman covering raw grief and self-sabotage with wit.
- Love Life (2020): Follows a woman through a string of failed romances and their emotional aftermath.
