Films and TV shows that feel like Just Like Heaven by The Cure
A giddy, dizzying rush of infatuation tinged with the ache of knowing the dream is slipping away.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Love remembered as a fading, dreamlike rush that you can't hold onto.
- Pretty in Pink (1986): Peak-80s heart-on-sleeve infatuation with a new wave soundtrack.
- Sing Street (2016): Teen boy chasing a girl through the shimmering post-punk and new wave of the 80s.
- Submarine (2011): Awkward, imaginative first love on the grey Welsh coast with a wistful tone.
- Normal People (2020): Intense, aching young love that keeps slipping out of reach.
- Stranger Things (2016): 80s nostalgia, teenage longing and a haunting, synth-lit atmosphere.
- Donnie Darko (2001): Late-80s setting with a dreamy, melancholy, post-punk-soaked sense of doomed romance.
- Heartstopper (2022): The giddy, spinning-around joy of first love, tender and earnest.