Films and TV shows that feel like The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie

A haunted, dreamlike encounter with a stranger who may be your own lost self, uncanny, cool and unsettling, with an identity slipping away.

1. Fight Club (1999): A man confronts a stranger who is secretly another version of himself, and the world is sold out from under him.
2. Black Swan (2010): Identity fractures into a darker double in a paranoid, hallucinatory spiral.
3. The Prestige (2006): Doubles, secrets and lost selves in a shadowy Victorian world.
4. Enemy (2014): A man meets his exact double in a cold, uncanny, dread-soaked story.
5. The Double (2014): A meek man is replaced by a confident duplicate in a bleak, surreal, retro-feeling world.
6. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976): Bowie himself plays an alienated stranger adrift in a world he doesn't belong to.
7. Twin Peaks (1990): Doppelgängers, dreamlike menace and uncanny strangers haunt every corner.
8. Mr. Robot (2015): A fractured protagonist discovers the stranger controlling his world is part of himself.