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Dark City

1998 · Science fiction · Alex Proyas · 1h 40m

A man wakes in a bath with no memory, in a city where it is always night and the buildings rearrange themselves after midnight. It explains itself slowly and then all at once.

  • Strongly fantastic
  • Clearly complicated

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    • Strongly complicated
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