Films and TV shows that feel like Cities In Dust by Siouxsie and The Banshees
A glamorous, danceable elegy about Pompeii's destruction, where doom is delivered with a shrug and a strut.
- The Hunger (1983): Stylish, smoky 80s goth glamour with Bauhaus in the opening, obsessed with beauty and decay.
- Pompeii (2014): The literal subject: a doomed city, a volcano and love in the face of ruin.
- Rome (2005): Decadent ancient empire of excess and violence, with the sense of a world on borrowed time.
- Party Monster (2003): Flamboyant nightlife that dances toward its own collapse.
- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013): Weary, elegant immortals watching civilizations crumble to dust.
- Melancholia (2011): Calm, beautiful acceptance of the end of the world.
- The Neon Demon (2016): Glossy, cold, hypnotic world of beauty consuming itself.