Movies that feel like a Joy Division song

The films and shows that come up most across 5 Joy Division songs on Soundtrackd, matched on mood, themes and setting. Each one says why it fits.

2007

Control

Anton Corbijn's black-and-white Ian Curtis biopic is the song's own world of Macclesfield gloom and quiet despair. For 5 songs, including Atmosphere.

2002

24 Hour Party People

Tells the Factory Records and Manchester scene story in which Joy Division and Curtis's death loom large. For 5 songs, including Atmosphere.

2007

This Is England

Shane Meadows' bleak, tender portrait of working-class British youth and loss in the grey early 80s. For 5 songs, including Atmosphere.

2011

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Muted, funereal, rain-grey Britain with a slow, solemn pace and deep melancholy. For 3 songs, including Atmosphere.

2018

Ghost Stories

Dreary British atmosphere heavy with guilt, mourning, and dread. For 3 songs, including Atmosphere.

2009

Joy Division

Grant Gee's documentary tells the band's story in the voices of the people who lived it. For 3 songs, including Disorder.

2004

Dead Man's Shoes

Bleak English landscapes and grief-driven quiet menace. For Atmosphere.

2011

Top Boy

Bleak urban British estates, isolation and fatalism hanging over young lives. For Atmosphere.

2012

The Loneliest Planet

Austere, hushed isolation and unspoken emotional distance mirroring the song's still, empty feel. For Atmosphere.

1994

The Crow

Its gothic revenge story features a Joy Division-era Dead Souls cover by Nine Inch Nails on its soundtrack, a ghost rising from the dark. For Dead Souls.

2013

Peaky Blinders

Industrial northern England, trauma-haunted men and a brooding, relentless drive. For Dead Souls.

2012

Ripper Street

A dark, fog-bound slog through decay and death, with ghosts that won't leave its characters. For Dead Souls.

Try your own song

Song by song

Atmosphere

A slow, solemn procession through grief and isolation, bleak yet strangely majestic and consoling.

Control, 24 Hour Party People, This Is England

Dead Souls

A claustrophobic, spectral howl of being haunted and pulled under by forces that won't let go, bleak yet relentlessly propulsive.

The Crow, Control, 24 Hour Party People

Disorder

A restless, propulsive rush of alienation: a man feeling numb and detached from his own senses, yet carried forward by an almost euphoric, driving rhythm.

Control, 24 Hour Party People, Joy Division

Love Will Tear Us Apart

A cold, propulsive song about a marriage quietly collapsing, where numb resignation sits under an urgent beat.

Control, 24 Hour Party People, Marriage Story

Shadowplay

A cold, hypnotic descent into a shadowy industrial night, where a restless, haunted narrator wanders through dread and fading light toward some unseen reckoning.