Films and TV shows that feel like Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
A melodramatic, all-consuming love song of aching desperation, where heartbreak is staged like a gothic opera and every emotion is turned up to eleven.
- Moonstruck (1987): Opera-scale, operatic passion and larger-than-life romantic longing under a giant moon.
- Stranger Things (2016): Lovingly steeped in 80s synth-drenched drama with big, earnest emotions and heightened stakes.
- Dirty Dancing (1987): A swooning 80s romance built around yearning and a soundtrack-powered emotional climax.
- Twilight (2008): Gothic, all-consuming teenage love where every glance feels like the end of the world.
- Phantom Thread (2017): Obsessive, dark romance with sweeping, swelling emotion and a gothic atmosphere.
- Carrie (1976): Gothic heartbreak and operatic emotional excess culminating in a stormy, cathartic climax.
- Normal People (2020): Aching, on-again-off-again love that captures the pain of turning away from someone you can't quit.
- Heartstopper (2022): Earnest, heart-on-sleeve romantic yearning with soaring emotional highs.