Films and TV shows that feel like Cherry Wine by Hozier

A tender, devastating love song that sits inside an abusive relationship, where devotion and bruising pain are tangled together and the narrator keeps forgiving.

1. Normal People (2020): Irish, achingly intimate, and about two people who hurt each other while clinging to love.
2. Big Little Lies (2017): Its Celeste and Perry storyline captures the same mix of passion, tenderness and abuse behind closed doors.
3. Blue Valentine (2010): A love that curdles into pain, shown with raw, intimate honesty.
4. Marriage Story (2019): Tender affection tangled with wounding, with a hushed, bittersweet ache.
5. Once (2007): Irish, acoustic and heart-on-sleeve, with the same stripped-down feel.
6. Brooklyn (2015): Irish melancholy and quiet longing, with love complicated by what it costs.
7. Sharp Objects (2018): Dark, bruised and beautiful, with pain handed down in intimate settings.
8. Room (2015): Trauma and fierce love in a confined space, handled with devastating tenderness.