Films and TV shows that feel like The Subway by Chappell Roan
A raw, wistful post-breakup ache of seeing an ex's ghost in every corner of a city, wanting to leave but unable to stop looking.
- Carol (2015): Restrained, aching queer love story where longing and loss hang in every glance.
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019): A love remembered after it ends, with a devastating final-shot catharsis.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Haunted by an ex in every place and memory you try to escape.
- Past Lives (2023): Quiet, bittersweet ache of the love that got away, set in New York.
- Fleabag (2016): Messy grief and longing in London, with tenderness under the humour.
- Heartstopper (2022): Soft, tender queer romance in a hopeful, dreamy register.
- Normal People (2020): Two people who can't quite let go, drifting apart and back again.
- Appropriate Behavior (2015): A Brooklyn bisexual woman wanders the city, haunted by her ex and funny about it.