Films and TV shows that feel like Underwear by Pulp
A tawdry, tender, darkly funny tale of awkward intimacy and humiliation, where undressing exposes the shabby truth of a relationship and the people in it.
- Brassed Off (1996): Northern working-class lives and quiet indignities played with humour and ache, in the same Sheffield-adjacent world.
- The Full Monty (1997): Sheffield men stripped bare, literally and emotionally, in a comedy of shame and vulnerability.
- Naked (1993): Mike Leigh's caustic, seedy portrait of sex, cynicism and drifting through dingy British nights.
- Nil by Mouth (1997): Raw, unglamorous domestic intimacy in cramped British homes, though far harsher than the song.
- Fish Tank (2009): Awkward desire and exposure in a drab council estate, with a charged, uneasy intimacy.
- Fleabag (2016): Funny, mortifying confessions of sex, shame and loneliness delivered with a wry sideways glance.
- This Is England '86 (2010): Grubby, tender northern lives where relationships fall apart in cramped rooms and bad decisions.
- Secrets & Lies (1996): Mike Leigh's tender and cringing look at British families and the humiliating truths they hide.
