Films and TV shows that feel like Helena by My Chemical Romance
A theatrical, gothic elegy for a lost grandmother, mixing grief, guilt over absence, and defiant dark-humored singalong catharsis.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012): Wounded outsider teens, grief and mixtape-fueled catharsis.
- Six Feet Under (2001): Death and mourning treated with dark humor and deep family feeling.
- Edward Scissorhands (1990): Gothic suburban romanticism and a tender outsider's heartbreak.
- The Virgin Suicides (2000): Doomed, dreamy suburban melancholy and the weight of loss.
- Donnie Darko (2001): Alienated suburban teen haunted by mortality in the 2000s.
- Wednesday (2022): Goth aesthetic and morbid wit with a teen outsider's heart.
- Harold and Maude (1971): Funerals, death obsession and an unlikely bond across generations.
- My Girl (1991): A child's raw confrontation with death and funeral grief.