Films and TV shows that feel like High and Dry by Radiohead
A tender, wounded lament about fear of abandonment and the hollow ache of being left behind after the high of fame or love.
- Submarine (2011): A awkward, wistful Welsh teen romance with fragile, bruised tenderness.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Two adrift people share quiet loneliness and bittersweet connection.
- Almost Famous (2000): Music-world highs and the ache of being left behind.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012): Early-90s outsider vulnerability and tender, aching adolescence.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Love lost and the sting of being left with only memory.
- Normal People (2020): Intimate, hushed portrait of insecurity and missed connection.
- Skins (2007): British youth stumbling through heartbreak and uncertainty.
- Control (2007): Grey English towns and fragile, melancholic inner turmoil.