Nightwatch

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Nightwatch is a 1997 horror–thriller film directed by Ole Bornedal, and starring Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin and Nick Nolte. It is a remake of the Danish film Nattevagten (1994), which was also directed by Bornedal. McGregor plays Martin, a law school student who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue. When a necrophiliac serial killer begins plaguing the (unnamed) city, Martin finds himself the target of the madman's wrath... more
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  • 1997

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  • 1 h 41 min

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Ole Bornedal

Ole Bornedal (b. 26 May 1959, Nørresundby, Denmark) is a Danish film director, actor and producer. He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994), a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes. He also...

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  • What if someone you trusted was setting you up? What if you were the final piece in a brilliant serial killer's puzzle? The night holds the secret.
  • In the mind of the police, he's the prime suspect. In the eyes of a killer, he's the next victim.
  • He's the prime suspect in a terrifying mystery. The police are after him and so is the murderer.

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