Films and TV shows that feel like Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
A wistful, aching meditation on absence and disconnection, sung by someone half-numbed by life and longing for a lost friend who is still somehow present.
- Almost Famous (2000): 1970s rock, the ache of distance from the people and moments you care about.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Memory, loss and longing for someone who is no longer there.
- Paris, Texas (1984): A drifting, absent man in vast landscapes, aching to reconnect with those he lost.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Quiet disconnection and tender, fleeting companionship in a numb, hazy world.
- Stand by Me (1986): A elegy for a lost childhood friend and the way absence lingers.
- Six Feet Under (2001): Grief and the longing for the dead woven through everyday life.
- Mad Men (2007): Emotionally numb people haunted by what's missing and by who they might have been.
- The Virgin Suicides (2000): Hazy 1970s nostalgia, unreachable presences and a lingering sense of loss.
