Films and TV shows that feel like Pyramids by Frank Ocean
A mythic, hypnotic fantasy of Cleopatra and a nightclub dancer fuses ancient grandeur with neon-lit, sorrowful desire, then collapses into the aching hangover of love, transaction and loss.
- Moonlight (2016): Tender, dreamlike Black intimacy and yearning shot in saturated, glowing colour.
- Hustlers (2019): Strip club glamour, power and transaction with a glossy, bittersweet undertow.
- Atlanta (2016): Surreal, hazy, Black-led storytelling that slides between the mundane and the mythic.
- Euphoria (2019): Neon-drenched, heightened emotion, desire and comedown aesthetics.
- Climax (2018): A hypnotic, pulsing dance spiral that tips from ecstasy into collapse.
- Spring Breakers (2013): Dreamy neon hedonism and synth-washed fantasy from the same year.
- Cleopatra (1963): The epic Egyptian queen myth the song reimagines at its grandest.
- Beyond the Lights (2014): A fame-struck R&B world of vulnerability, love and personal unraveling.