Films and TV shows that feel like Karma Police by Radiohead
A wry, paranoid plea for cosmic justice that curdles into dread and self-loathing as the narrator realises he is losing himself.
- Fight Club (1999): Corporate alienation and a narrator coming apart at the seams mirror the song's slow unraveling.
- Black Mirror (2011): Technology-fuelled social judgment and surveillance echo the song's idea of a karmic authority watching you.
- The Truman Show (1998): A man under constant observation in a too-tidy world, with creeping unease beneath the pleasantness.
- Mr. Robot (2015): A paranoid, isolated narrator battling systems of power and his own fracturing mind.
- The Lives of Others (2006): Surveillance, moral reckoning and quiet melancholy in a watched society.
- Taxi Driver (1976): A lonely man's contempt for those around him tips toward self-destructive judgment.
- Severance (2022): Sterile offices, corporate control and a deadpan, eerie sense of lost selfhood.
- Brazil (1985): Bureaucratic dystopia played with dark humour and mounting paranoia.
