Films and TV shows that feel like Love On The Brain by Rihanna
A bruised, defiant torch song about loving someone who hurts you, sung with raw, aching, almost-proud devotion.
- Blue Valentine (2010): A love that keeps burning even as it destroys both people.
- Love & Basketball (2000): Passionate, aching on-and-off romance with deep emotional devotion.
- Cry-Baby (1990): Doo-wop-era rebellion and romantic longing in a stylized 1950s world.
- Beyond the Lights (2014): A singer's raw vulnerability and love that threatens to consume her.
- Euphoria (2019): Obsessive, self-destructive love rendered in neon-soaked emotional intensity.
- Normal People (2020): Two people unable to quit each other despite the hurt they cause.
- Carol (2015): Smoldering, period-set longing with a bittersweet, vintage ache.
- Mad Men (2007): Retro-glam mid-century world of yearning, bad choices and wounded hearts.