If you loved Batman: Gotham Knight, try Program

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Program has roughly 5.2× fewer votes than Batman: Gotham Knight — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Batman: Gotham Knight

2008 · dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Futoshi Higashide, Yasuhiro Aoki, Jong-Sik Nam, Hiroshi Morioka, Shojiro Nishimi, Toshiyuki Kubooka

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Program

2003 · dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri

What they share

Both films are directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and they both carry the neon soaked mood tag, and they sit in Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Batman: Gotham Knight, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

neon soaked

What Program is

Blade Runner meets The Matrix. Cis and Duo ponder reality during a sword fight. Carries anime flair of early 2000s sci-fi.

If you loved Batman: Gotham Knight, try Program

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What they share

What Program is

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