Films and TV shows that feel like Warm Leatherette by The Normal

A cold, clinical, deadpan fetish for car-crash eroticism, where metal, leather and death blur into detached synthetic desire.

1. Crash (1996): Cronenberg's adaptation of the Ballard novel the song is based on, with the same cold car-wreck eroticism.
2. Titane (2021): A woman's body, metal and cars fuse in violent, perverse desire.
3. Videodrome (1983): Cronenberg again, with technology merging with flesh in a clinical, unsettling way.
4. Under the Skin (2014): Detached, alien and synthetic, with a cold hypnotic score and bleak British roads.
5. Drive (2011): Cars, leather and a numb emotional surface over sudden violence, scored with synths.
6. Possession (1981): A cold, feverish European study of alienation and the body from the same post-punk era.
7. Black Mirror (2011): Technology warps desire and humanity in a chilly, deadpan way.
8. Ex Machina (2015): Sterile spaces and synthetic bodies blur desire and control.