Films and TV shows that feel like Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

A solitary, trembling meditation on love, loss and surrender, where desire and holiness blur and heartbreak turns into something close to prayer.

1. The O.C. (2003): Its famous Ryan and Marissa-era finale moment used this very recording as a grief-struck emotional peak.
2. Lars and the Real Girl (2007): A fragile, tender story of loneliness and a community's gentle compassion.
3. Six Feet Under (2001): Death, grief and love explored with spiritual ache and quiet beauty.
4. Shrek (2001): The Cohen song's best-known screen moment, though in the John Cale version, which brought the hymn to a wide audience.
5. Manchester by the Sea (2016): Raw, restrained grief in a cold small town, with lingering sorrow and no easy redemption.
6. Dead Poets Society (1989): Young idealism and heartbreak with a hushed, reverent emotional sting.
7. The Leftovers (2014): A study of loss and faith where grief becomes a kind of spiritual search.
8. Chasing Amy (1997): A 90s story of love, vulnerability and heartbreak with an indie, confessional heart.