Films and TV shows that feel like Hand Covers Bruise by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

A lonely, quietly ominous piano figure that hides something ugly beneath a calm surface, like a bruise covered by a hand.

1. The Social Network (2010): The song opens this film, scoring Zuckerberg's lonely walk after the breakup that sparks Facebook.
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): Reznor and Ross's next Fincher score, cold, wintry and full of buried secrets.
3. Gone Girl (2014): Fincher and Reznor/Ross again, with a calm surface hiding something sinister.
4. MINDHUNTER (2017): Fincher's chilly, methodical series about unsettling minds, with a similarly restrained, uneasy mood.
5. Zodiac (2007): Fincher's obsessive, slow-burn procedural about a mind consumed by a hidden darkness.
6. Steve Jobs (2015): Another Sorkin-written portrait of a brilliant, cold tech founder and the people he damages.
7. Ex Machina (2015): Isolated, cold-toned tech thriller about a genius creator and the unease beneath his calm.
8. Mr. Robot (2015): Lonely, alienated hacker drifting through a dark world of technology and hidden pain.