After the Dark

After the Dark

2013 · 107 min · EN · R · 6.1 (631 votes)
Dir. John Huddles · Starring James D'Arcy, Sophie Lowe, Rhys Wakefield, Bonnie Wright, Daryl Sabara, Abhi Sinha · Music Nicholas O'Toole

Smart. Talented. Beautiful. Stranded.

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At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

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This film is a cerebral gauntlet, plunging you into a high-stakes ethical thought experiment. It's a tense, existential slow-burn that forces introspection on human value and survival, wrapped in a grim, intellectual drama. The atmosphere is heavy with moral weight and difficult choices.

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