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The Dark Knight (2008)

Directed by Christopher Nolan.

With Christian Bale as Batman, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric Roberts, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Ron Dean, Nestor Carbonell, Cillian Murhpy, Chin Han, Richie Coster, Morgan Freeman

Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes.