# The Limits of Control (2009)

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**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Jim Jarmusch
**Written by**: Jim Jarmusch
**Starring**: Isaach de Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Óscar Jaenada, Luis Tosar, Paz de la Huerta

> *For every way in, there is another way out.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Madrid station. Evening. A ringing phone. Wordless, the man accepts a mission. Briefcases and cryptic matches exchanged in cafés and dark hotel rooms. Is he a ghost, an assassin, or an avant-garde tourist? Jarmusch’s Euro-noir is cooler than you.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, outsider, slow-burn

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