Films and TV shows that feel like Roman Holiday by Fontaines D.C.
A drifting, wry, sleepless daze of someone slipping out of the grind into a dreamy, melancholic escape, wistful and slightly unmoored.
- Trainspotting (1996): Restless working-class youth, grey cities and gallows humour with an itch to escape.
- Sing Street (2016): Dublin teens use music to dream their way out of a bleak backdrop.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Jet-lagged, hazy alienation and quiet drifting through a foreign city.
- Frances Ha (2013): Wry, wistful drifting through city life with an aimless, charming restlessness.
- Normal People (2020): Irish melancholy, longing and emotional unmooring told in muted tones.
- Derry Girls (2018): Irish youth, dry humour and a yearning to break free.
- Aftersun (2022): A sun-faded holiday tinged with sadness and hazy memory.
- The Commitments (1991): Dublin working-class dreamers chasing escape through music, with scrappy humour.