Films and TV shows that feel like Stand By Me by Ben E. King

A steady vow of loyalty and comfort in the dark, a promise that friendship and love will hold when everything else falls away.

1. Stand by Me (1986): The film that carries the song's name: four boys, a railroad walk and a friendship that outlasts childhood.
2. The Goonies (1985): A band of loyal friends faces danger together on one last adventure.
3. Stranger Things (2016): Close-knit kids stick together through the dark, with the same 80s-looking-back-at-boyhood warmth.
4. The Wonder Years (1988): Nostalgic 60s childhood and growing up, narrated with bittersweet memory.
5. It (2017): The Losers Club proves that friends standing together can face the darkest fear.
6. American Graffiti (1973): One last night of early-60s youth set to oldies, full of friendship and the edge of change.
7. Dirty Dancing (1987): Summer of 1963, early-60s soul and a love that gives courage.
8. Moonrise Kingdom (2012): Two kids run away through the woods in 1965, trusting only each other.