Films and TV shows that feel like My Funny Valentine by Chet Baker
A fragile, tender, late-night confession of love sung with weary vulnerability, beauty tinged with self-destruction and melancholy.
- Let's Get Lost (1988): Bruce Weber's black-and-white portrait of Chet Baker himself, ravaged and still achingly beautiful.
- Born to Be Blue (2015): Ethan Hawke plays Baker in a tender, broken story of love and relapse.
- 'Round Midnight (1986): An expatriate jazz great drinks and plays his way through Paris nights.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Two lonely strangers find fleeting intimacy in a hushed, nocturnal city.
- In the Mood for Love (2000): Restrained longing and unspoken romance drift through dim rooms and narrow streets.
- Elevator to the Gallows (1958): Miles Davis's cool trumpet scores a rain-soaked Parisian night of doomed lovers.
- Mad Men (2007): Smoky 1950s-60s melancholy, elegant surfaces hiding loneliness and self-destruction.
- The Eddy (2020): A Paris jazz club world of heartbreak, music and fragile lives.
