Films and TV shows that feel like Place To Be by Nick Drake
A quiet, resigned reflection on lost youth and ambition, where wistful tenderness shades into the loneliness of someone who has stepped back from the world.
- Garden State (2004): A numbed young man returns home and tries to feel something again, set to hushed, wistful songs.
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001): Gifted people who have lost their way, with deadpan sadness and tenderness; Drake's music also appears in Wes Anderson's world.
- Fish Tank (2009): A teenager in grey, overlooked England who is reaching for something better.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Quiet drifting and loneliness, with intimacy found in unspoken moments.
- Wild Strawberries (1957): An old man looks back on his life and the youth he lost.
- Skins (2007): British adolescence, with its insecurity, lost innocence and early disillusion.
- Normal People (2020): Tender, intimate and sad, about two people growing up and failing to say what matters.
- Fleabag (2016): Hidden grief and loneliness under a brave face, in a very British voice.
