Films and TV shows that feel like Rhinestone Eyes by Gorillaz
A hazy, neon-lit daydream of artificial glamour and longing, where a dystopian future feels both seductive and hollow.
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017): Neon-drenched, synthetic longing and a hollow artificial love drift through a decaying future.
- Her (2013): Pastel-hued, wistful romance with technology that feels intimate yet quietly lonely.
- Black Mirror (2011): Seductive technology and artificial gloss masking emptiness and alienation.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010): Same-era video-game bleeps, comic-book colour and slacker romantic yearning.
- Ghost in the Shell (1995): A melancholic meditation on identity and artificiality in a glowing futuristic city.
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010): Hypnotic retro-futurist synth haze and sterile, dreamlike dystopian unease.
- Love, Death & Robots (2019): Stylised, eclectic animated futures blending beauty, decay and dark whimsy.
- Under the Skin (2014): Detached, hypnotic alienation and the strange pull of a synthetic surface.