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When I first heard this album, I was at a time in my life...How to explain this.

My parents had died when I was very young. My mom died last. I went to live with my grandmother. 6 months later she died. I lived on my own until I got through high school. Then I went to college, struggled with grief. I fled the States, lived in Paris for a while. Met my first wife on a Greek island. She died not long after we married.

I went to law school, to try to make something of myself, to become someone she might have respected. I was a shell. I don't know how I survived it.

This album, Achtung Baby, and the soundtrack to Until the End of the World seemed like all I listened to for years.

This always will take me back to those days, the grief, the solitude, the healing.

What a mystery life is.

Lost in Translation and Blade Runner are two of my favorite films, so I think I feel you. If you want urban, nocturnal and dreamy you can't do much better than David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, and also Lost Highway. (Not as good of a film, but definitely has that kind of mood.)

I think because you like Blade Runner, you might also enjoy Until the End of the World. it's one of my favorite movies of all time. It's very dreamy and contemplative (dreams are a central theme). It ends up in the Australian outback, but before that there are a lot of European "city at night" scenes. It's by German director Wim Wenders, and if you like it, I'd recommend the rest of his body of work, especially Wings of Desire. Unfortunately you can't get the DVD in North America, but there are some European versions, and you can rent it on Amazon. It also has an amazing soundtrack. Another good one in this kind of vein is The City of Lost Children, a French film. I'd also recommend Terry Giliam's Brazil, especially if you like dark humor and surrealism. (I'm a big Gilliam fan personally; I also like 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King and the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus as well.)

You might also like the late 80's - early 90's "yuppie noir" subgenre typified by such films as Bad Influence, Bright Lights Big City and Less Than Zero. Bad Influence specifically is one of my favorites, and the soundtrack definitely has that "dark urban" feel to it. The movie American Psycho was kind of an homage to this era/subgenre, ten years later, though obviously a lot more violent.

Trainspotting, Magnolia and Requiem for a Dream are all nocturnal, dreamy and urban, but they will also fuck your shit up, so fair warning there.

As for music, I'd strongly recommend Morphine, The The, Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Jane Siberry, Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky, Mazzy Star, the Cowboy Junkies, and Zero 7. Some of Depeche Mode's stuff would fit the bill as well, I think - "I'm Waiting For the Night To Fall", "One Caress", "But Not Tonight", "Sweetest Perfection", and "Death's Door" (which not coincidentally is on the Until the End of the World soundtrack).

TV shows are a bit harder. The only thing that comes to mind at the moment are both short-lived scifi shows - Brimstone and Max Headroom (the drama, not the talk show). You might like Six Feet Under as well. I'm eagerly anticipating Frank Darabont's L.A. Noir TV show, whenever it comes out.

EDIT: Something else occurred to me: You might enjoy The Crow if you haven't seen it already. It's violent, but also dark, urban, moody, and contemplative. (And the soundtrack is awesome.) Also, The Crow 2: City of Angels was savaged by the critics and it is of course an inferior film to the original, but if you can shut off your brain and forget that it's essentially a rehash of the first film, visually it's a beautiful, gothic, dystopian take on L.A. at night (it was directed by Tim Pope, who directed many of The Cure's videos).

Until The End Of The World

"Until the End of the World"