Films and TV shows that feel like England by The National
A hushed, aching, slow-building portrait of a man adrift in love and distance, longing for connection while sinking under his own weight and a rain-soaked, melancholic England.
Brief Encounter (1945): Restrained, aching English longing at a rainy railway station is the classic version of this song's feeling.
Normal People (2020): Tender, halting intimacy and the pain of two people who can't quite hold on to each other.
Weekend (2011): A close, quiet English story of fragile connection with the ache of impending distance.
Lost in Translation (2003): Adrift in a foreign hotel, two lonely people find fleeting, unspoken intimacy.
Past Lives (2023): Love held across time and distance, with wistful and restrained emotion.
Blue Valentine (2010): A relationship coming apart, with the weary tenderness Berninger sings about.
Fleabag (2016): Messy, self-lacerating London adulthood with heartbreak underneath the wit.
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