Films and TV shows that feel like Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls
An aching, all-in love confession: wanting to be truly seen and known, even at the risk of being torn apart.
- City of Angels (1998): The song was written for it, an angel giving up eternity just to feel and be with someone.
- Sleepless in Seattle (1993): Strangers aching for a connection they can't yet prove is real.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Love so deep you'd fight to keep it even as everything dissolves.
- Dawson's Creek (1998): Earnest late-90s teens spilling their hearts out in every rain-soaked, emotional scene.
- Her (2013): A lonely person longing to be truly known and to feel something real.
- Normal People (2020): Two people who can't quite say it, bound by vulnerability and missed timing.
- Before Sunset (2004): A second chance at a love that never left, with time running out.
- One Tree Hill (2003): Heart-on-sleeve romance and big emotional swells, scored by guitar-driven rock.