Films and TV shows that feel like I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You by Tom Waits
A lonely man nursing a drink at closing time, too scared and too wounded to act on the pull he feels toward a stranger at the bar.
- Barfly (1987): Boozy, tender romance between two damaged barroom souls echoes Waits' own world.
- Down by Law (1986): Waits himself stars in Jarmusch's drifting, deadpan portrait of lonely outsiders.
- Lost in Translation (2003): Two lonely strangers connect over late-night drinks, wary of what it could mean.
- One from the Heart (1982): Waits scored this neon-soaked, melancholy Las Vegas love story.
- Paris, Texas (1984): A broken man's quiet, aching longing for connection he fears he can't sustain.
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013): Cold, wistful, self-sabotaging loner drifting through smoky rooms.
- Fleabag (2016): Guarded, self-defeating intimacy and bittersweet romantic longing wrapped in dark humour.
- BoJack Horseman (2014): A drinking, lonely soul who sabotages love before it can begin.
