Films and TV shows that feel like The Man Who Sold The World by Nirvana

A haunted, fragile meditation on identity and estrangement, sung by a man who seems to be looking at his own ghost, candlelit and mournful.

1. Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015): The intimate, unvarnished Cobain documentary about the man behind the Unplugged-era haunting.
2. Last Days (2005): Gus Van Sant's drifting, ghostly portrait of a Cobain-like rock star fading from himself.
3. Fight Club (1999): A man meets a double who is himself, the same fractured-identity puzzle.
4. Black Swan (2010): A self splitting in two, with paranoia and a doppelgänger closing in.
5. Donnie Darko (2001): An alienated, haunted outsider and a looming figure only he sees.
6. Twin Peaks (1990): Pacific Northwest doubles, shadow selves and a dreamlike, ominous melancholy.
7. Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2007): Cobain's own voice, quiet and reflective, over the Pacific Northwest landscape.
8. Mr. Robot (2015): A fractured narrator, an alter ego and deep alienation.