Films and TV shows that feel like Dead Souls by Joy Division

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

1. The Crow (1994): 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.
2. Control (2007): Anton Corbijn's black-and-white portrait of Ian Curtis captures the same illness, dread and Manchester gloom.
3. 24 Hour Party People (2002): The Factory Records and Manchester scene that produced Joy Division, told with chaotic humor.
4. This Is England (2007): Bleak working-class Britain and alienated youth in a grey, unforgiving landscape.
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Cold, drab, paranoid 1970s Britain with a haunted, suffocating mood.
6. Ghost Stories (2018): A British chiller of guilt and haunting that sits in the same dread.
7. Peaky Blinders (2013): Industrial northern England, trauma-haunted men and a brooding, relentless drive.
8. Ripper Street (2012): A dark, fog-bound slog through decay and death, with ghosts that won't leave its characters.