Films and TV shows that feel like Live Forever by Oasis
A defiant, hopeful burst of working-class self-belief, the sense that you're invincible and destined for something bigger than your grey surroundings.
- Trainspotting (1996): Mid-90s British youth energy, restless and darkly funny, with the same cocky swagger.
- This Is England (2007): Working-class northern kids finding belonging and identity in a gritty, rain-soaked England.
- Supersonic (2016): The Oasis documentary itself, capturing the rise of the Gallagher brothers from Manchester to Knebworth.
- Shameless (2004): Chaotic, funny, defiant Manchester estate life with fierce loyalty and spirit.
- Sing Street (2016): Teenagers form a band to escape a bleak town, fuelled by pure belief in their own future.
- Control (2007): Manchester music history and working-class dreams in monochrome, a darker flipside to the anthem.
- Skins (2007): Teenage invincibility, friendship and reckless euphoria on the edge of adulthood.
- Human Traffic (1999): A weekend of young British friends chasing transcendence and feeling immortal.
- Billy Elliot (2000): A working-class kid in a struggling northern town dares to dream of a bigger life.
