# The Ninth Gate (1999)

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**Runtime**: 133 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
**Directed by**: Roman Polanski
**Written by**: Roman Polanski, Enrique Urbizu, John Brownjohn
**Starring**: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford, Jack Taylor

> *Every book has a life of its own.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: mindfuck, neon-soaked, paranoid, slow-burn

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 6.7/10 (208262 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 44% · Metacritic 44/100

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