Films and TV shows that feel like Alison by Slowdive
A woozy, tender daydream of longing and half-remembered intimacy, drifting just out of reach beneath a wash of glittering guitar.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Jet-lagged drifting and unspoken tenderness wrapped in a hazy, shoegaze-adjacent glow.
- The Virgin Suicides (2000): Soft-focus suburban reverie where longing and memory blur into something unreachable.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Fading memories of a love dissolving into dreamlike wash.
- Aftersun (2022): Hazy holiday memories and bittersweet intimacy replayed through a grown-up haze.
- Normal People (2020): Tender, inarticulate young love with ache beneath quiet moments.
- Heartstopper (2022): Gentle, sweet first-love yearning in muted British settings.
- Mysterious Skin (2005): Gregg Araki used Slowdive's music to soundtrack dreamy, aching, fractured memory.
- Fish Tank (2009): Overcast English drift and yearning for something tender beyond reach.
- Sex Education (2019): Awkward, hopeful teenage intimacy in a soft pastel British haze.