Films and TV shows that feel like Sorrow by The National

A weary, tender surrender to sadness: a man admitting that sorrow has found him again and that he lives in it, quietly and without drama.

1. Manchester by the Sea (2016): A man numbed by grief who can't climb out of sorrow, told with the same restraint.
2. Lost in Translation (2003): Two lonely, sleepless people drifting through a city at night in quiet melancholy.
3. Marriage Story (2019): Love dissolving with tenderness and exhaustion rather than villains.
4. Blue Valentine (2010): The slow ache of a relationship wearing down, intimate and heavy.
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): Heartbreak and memory held with tender, wounded humor.
6. BoJack Horseman (2014): A deep portrait of depression, regret and weary self-awareness.
7. Normal People (2020): Aching, understated intimacy and the sadness carried between two people.
8. Revolutionary Road (2008): Suburban disappointment and marital weariness in a muted, brooding register.