If you loved The Ghost Writer, try The Ninth Gate

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Ghost Writer

2010 · dir. Roman Polanski

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Both films are directed by Roman Polanski, and they both carry the neon soaked, paranoid, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Mystery / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Ghost Writer, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Ninth Gate is

Paris winter. A damp copy of The Nine Gates lies open on a dealer’s table. A shadowy collector wants the last two copies of a demonic manual. When the dealer traces them, murders trail the book like fingerprints. Roman Polanski’s gothic paranoia twists bibliography into bloodshed.

If you loved The Ghost Writer, try The Ninth Gate

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What The Ninth Gate is

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