The Dark Knight
Batman, Gordon and a new district attorney close in on Gotham's mob, until a man with no rules offers the city a different kind of order.
Selected as the genre's high-water mark: a crime film about the price of order, carried by an unforgettable performance.
With Lieutenant Gordon and district attorney Harvey Dent, Batman begins to dismantle Gotham's organised crime. The mob turns to the Joker, an anarchist who wants nothing but to prove that decency collapses under pressure. What follows is a crime epic in the mould of Michael Mann, built on moral dilemmas rather than set pieces, and anchored by Heath Ledger's unsettling performance.
- Christopher Nolan
- Christian BaleBruce Wayne
- Heath LedgerJoker
- Aaron EckhartHarvey Dent
- Michael CaineAlfred
- Maggie GyllenhaalRachel Dawes
- Gary OldmanJim Gordon
Curated adjacencies
01 / 03 admitted · 2 withheldEvery grouping names one axis of similarity — and the axes we refused. Pairings that could not be defended were withheld rather than filled in.
Similar in moral pressure and psychological intensity
Grouped where the viewer is placed under obligation rather than suspense. Intensity without spectacle.