Films and TV shows that feel like The One That Got Away by Katy Perry
A bittersweet, nostalgic ache for a youthful summer love that burned bright and was lost to time and mistakes.
- The Notebook (2004): A summer romance that time and circumstance pulled apart, remembered with deep longing.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Memory, regret and the ache of a love you can't quite let go.
- Blue Valentine (2010): Intercuts bright early love with its painful aftermath.
- One Day (2024): Two people circle a love across years, always missing the moment.
- Normal People (2020): Youthful intimacy and the lingering what-ifs of a connection that keeps slipping away.
- (500) Days of Summer (2009): Looking back on a love that was real to one person and fleeting to the other.
- Dawson's Creek (1998): Teen small-town first love and the lifelong question of who got away.
- Before Sunset (2004): Two people revisit a perfect night years later, haunted by what they let go.