Films and TV shows that feel like Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana
A dark, tender, self-lacerating love song where obsession, sickness and longing tangle into something beautiful and suffocating.
- Last Days (2005): Gus Van Sant's hushed, fogged-out portrait of a Cobain-like musician drifting toward oblivion.
- Singles (1992): Seattle grunge-scene love and awkwardness, the lighter flipside of the song's gloom.
- Sid and Nancy (1986): A doomed, codependent punk romance that is tender and destructive in equal measure.
- Spring Breakers (2013): Hypnotic, dreamlike excess that curdles into dread.
- Black Swan (2010): Beauty and self-destruction merge in a claustrophobic, bodily spiral.
- Twin Peaks (1990): Pacific Northwest rain, dark romanticism and a beautiful surface hiding something sick.
- Sharp Objects (2018): Wounded intimacy, damaged bodies and a suffocating, murky atmosphere.
- Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015): Cobain's own notebooks, home movies and pain, the real-life source of this song's world.