Films and TV shows that feel like Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) by Kate Bush
A desperate, breathless bargaining against the emotional distance and misunderstanding between lovers.
- Stranger Things (2016): It acts as a literal lifeline against psychological entrapment and inner demons.
- Normal People (2020): Captures the painful miscommunications and deep desire to swap lives to finally understand each other.
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019): Reflects an intense, breathless emotional longing that defies the rigid structures of the world.
- Melancholia (2011): Mirrors the feeling of facing an inevitable, looming doom with desperate emotional clarity.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Embodies the frantic urge to reverse emotional pain and hold onto a fading connection at all costs.
- The Leftovers (2014): Drives forward with the relentless, grief-stricken need to make a deal with the universe for closure.
- Call Me by Your Name (2017): Translates the consuming, dizzying weight of first love and the agony of emotional asymmetry.
- Drive (2011): Blends nocturnal synth-driven urgency with a fierce, protective devotion across impossible divides.
