LikePrimer,even understanding the plot ofTimecrimesis something that takes at least a couple of watches.

The plot follows a grief-stricken widow grappling with the apparent suicide of her husband.

What follows is a frantic search throughout the hospital for his missing family.

Imagery from Pearl and Annabelle: Creation

However, one year earlier, a techno-noir thriller calledDark Cityunleashed a similar premise with woefully underrated results.

This stylishly gloomymoviedeserves to sit on shelves reserved for science fiction masterpieces as monumental as2001: A Space OdysseyorMetropolis.

Imagery from Flow and Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse

Quint’s US Indianapolis Monologue - Jaws and Pearl’s Monologue to Mitzy - Pearl

A combination of imagery from Primer and Dark City

Custom image by Milica Djordjevic

Primer 2004 character with cupped hands standing over a device

Hector (Karra Elejalde) covered in bandages in Timecrimes

Gemma and Tom hold up their middle fingers while lying in bed in Vivarium.

Rebecca Hall touches her face in The Night House

Cameron Diaz in The Box

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Dark City 1998

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