Films and TV shows that feel like Nobody by Mitski

A danceable plea from someone achingly alone, craving human touch and connection while the world keeps spinning and the beat hides the heartbreak.

1. Lost in Translation (2003): Two strangers adrift and isolated in a neon city, desperate for a flicker of real connection.
2. Her (2013): A lonely man in a glowing city longs for intimacy and someone to understand him.
3. Frances Ha (2013): A restless young woman in New York stumbles through loneliness with awkward, bittersweet charm.
4. Aftersun (2022): Sunlit surfaces mask deep sadness and the ache of wanting closeness that slips away.
5. Fleabag (2016): Brash humour covering a woman's raw loneliness and hunger for love and touch.
6. Lady Bird (2017): A young woman's yearning to belong and be seen, tender and funny with an undercurrent of ache.
7. Past Lives (2023): Quiet, wistful longing between people separated by distance and time in New York.
8. Eighth Grade (2018): Painfully lonely teenager craving connection, released the same year as the song.