Films and TV shows that feel like Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

A broken, confessional reckoning with addiction, self-destruction and regret, where numbness slowly gives way to a desperate need for forgiveness and a haunting sense of what's been lost.

1. Walk the Line (2005): Johnny Cash's own story of addiction, guilt and redemption, tied to the cover that made this song immortal.
2. Requiem for a Dream (2000): A merciless descent into addiction where every hope collapses into numbness and ruin.
3. Trainspotting (1996): Mid-90s heroin self-destruction with the same raw honesty and the cost of the habit.
4. Leaving Las Vegas (1995): A man drinks himself toward death, a tender, hopeless portrait of self-destruction.
5. Beautiful Boy (2018): A family watching a loved one's addiction, full of grief and fragile hope.
6. Breaking Bad (2008): A slow moral and physical decay, with regret and ruined legacy at the center.
7. BoJack Horseman (2014): Self-loathing, addiction and failed amends in a hollow, empty house.