Films and TV shows that feel like Everyday Is Like Sunday by Morrissey

A darkly funny, wistful lament for a washed-out, grey seaside town where nothing happens, and a longing for apocalyptic release that is half joke, half genuine ache.

1. Submarine (2011): A deadpan, melancholy seaside-town teen story with an achingly wry, indie-soaked tone.
2. Brighton Rock (1948): The classic grey, menacing English seaside resort, faded and bleak off the postcard.
3. Quadrophenia (1979): British youth stuck in drab routine, chasing escape at the seaside in Brighton.
4. Last Orders (2001): Old friends carry ashes to the coast in a wistful, very British journey full of memory and regret.
5. Never Let Me Go (2010): Grey, rain-lashed English coast and quiet resignation with a deep, aching melancholy.
6. The End of the F***ing World (2017): Deadpan, darkly funny young misfits drift through dreary English towns longing for escape.
7. This Is England (2007): 1980s working-class Britain at a grey seaside, nostalgic and bruising, from the song's era.
8. Fish Tank (2009): A restless teen trapped in a bleak English estuary town, aching to get out.