Films and TV shows that feel like 40 Days by Slowdive
A wistful, drifting ache of young love and restlessness, glowing and melancholy at once, like walking home at dawn through a haze of half-remembered feelings.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Jet-lagged drifting and quiet connection in a neon haze mirror the song's blurry tenderness (and shoegaze is on its soundtrack).
- Submarine (2011): A teenager's awkward, aching first love on the Welsh coast under washed-out skies.
- Aftersun (2022): Sun-faded memory and unspoken sadness captured in hazy fragments.
- The Virgin Suicides (2000): Dreamy suburban longing and nostalgia viewed through a soft, glowing lens.
- Take Shelter (2011): Wide, anxious atmosphere and creeping dread beneath calm surfaces, matching the song's swirling wall of sound.
- Skins (2007): British teenage restlessness, messy love and nights that blur into mornings.
- Heartstopper (2022): Tender, shimmering young love with an earnest emotional lift.
- Fingernails (2023): Quiet, dreamlike yearning and uncertain intimacy in a softly lit, muted world.
- The End of the F***ing World (2017): Two drifting British teens on a road trip, numb, tender and wistful beneath dark humour.
