Films and TV shows that feel like Wonderwall by Oasis
A hungover, tender plea for a saviour: world-weary romantic yearning wrapped in swaggering mid-90s Britpop confidence.
- Trainspotting (1996): The defining mid-90s British youth film, with the same swagger and grey-city restlessness.
- Human Traffic (1999): A weekend of British youth chasing escape and connection, with the same late-90s energy.
- This Is England (2007): Working-class English youth, friendship and belonging, with a bittersweet nostalgic ache.
- This Is England '86 (2010): Follows the same gang through love and heartbreak, with raw, tender, funny moments.
- Control (2007): Black-and-white Manchester, with longing and fragility in the north of England.
- 24 Hour Party People (2002): Manchester music mythology, with cocky humour and romantic excess.
- Supersonic (2016): The Oasis documentary itself, covering their rise at Knebworth and the brothers' volatile bond.
- Skins (2007): Teenage yearning, messy love and friendship in a gritty, funny British setting.
