Films and TV shows that feel like Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead

A lonely night-time daydream of an outsider gazing at the stars, imagining aliens taking him away from a dull suburban world he can't connect with.

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): Suburban loneliness meets a gentle alien visitor and the longing to be understood and taken somewhere else.
2. Donnie Darko (2001): A misfit teen in a strange, dreamy suburb haunted by cosmic unease and a sense of not belonging.
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): Ordinary suburban people drawn obsessively to the night sky and the promise of something beyond.
4. Napoleon Dynamite (2004): An awkward outsider adrift in a dull small town, with the same offbeat, isolated tenderness.
5. Paul (2011): Lonely misfits and a friendly alien on the road, with affectionate wonder about the stars.
6. Stranger Things (2016): Small-town outsider kids, suburban nights and otherworldly escape and dread.
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Wistful, hazy, dreamlike loneliness of a disconnected character searching for connection.
8. Submarine (2011): A daydreaming British teen outsider lost in his own head, with hazy, melancholy indie texture.