Films and TV shows that feel like Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? by Arctic Monkeys
A 3am drunk-dial of a song: bitter, seductive and self-aware, caught between wanting someone and resenting being their last resort.
- Submarine (2011): Alex Turner soundtracked this wry, awkward British coming-of-age story full of romantic bruises.
- Skins (2007): Hedonistic nights, messy attachments and drug-fuelled teenage love in grey British suburbs.
- Fleabag (2016): Sardonic, self-aware and sexually reckless, with a heart that hurts beneath the humour.
- Nocturnal Animals (2016): Stylish, sleek and consumed by the bitter aftermath of a failed relationship.
- Shame (2011): Cold city nights and compulsive, empty encounters that mask loneliness.
- Drive (2011): Moody neon-soaked nocturnal cool with yearning simmering under the surface.
- Normal People (2020): An on-again, off-again pull between two people who keep returning to each other and hurting.
- Blue Valentine (2010): Love's sweet start and bitter decay, with resentment and lingering desire.
- Human Traffic (1999): A weekend of clubbing, drugs and tangled relationships in a hazy night out.
