The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the second part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins. Christian Bale reprises the lead role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, with a returning cast of Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The film introduces the...
Joker sets the mountain of money on fire in front of Chechen.
Before killing Gamble, the Joker tells him one of many variations of stories ...
Durning Dent's fund raiser, Bruce tell's Rachel that he's ready to give up on...
As Batman tells Gordon that he'll take the fall for Dent's crimes, Alfred bur...
As Batman tells Gordon that he'll take the fall for Dent's crimes, Alfred bur...
After Batman saves Joker's life, he dangles upside-down by the ankles, and te...
Batman saves the Joker from a fall off the Prewitt building and pulls him bac...
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I wo...
Batman saves the Joker from a fall off the Prewitt building and pulls him bac...
Batman saves the Joker from a fall off the Prewitt building and pulls him bac...
Batman saves the Joker from a fall off the Prewitt building and pulls him bac...
Joker places the gun in Dent's hand then places it's barrel to his own forehe...
Joker explains himself to some of the underworld bosses before burning up the...
Joker gets into the head of the detective that's guarding him.
Joker shares his view of the world with Batman as they sit in an interrogatio...
In the Bat Opps Center, Alfred explains the Joker to Bruce.
During his invasion into the party Wayne throws for Dent, Rachel knocks the J...
During his invasion into the party Wayne throws for Dent, Rachel knocks the J...
During his invasion into the party Wayne throws for Dent, Rachel knocks the J...
When Rachel hears what Bruce has to say about Dent to the guests at the funnd...
When Rachel hears what Bruce has to say about Dent to the guests at the funnd...
The Joker tells Gambol a creepy story about the origin of his scars before ki...
The Joker tells Gambol the origin of his scars before killing him.
After Bruce Wayne is in a car accident, he asks Commissioner Gordon if he sho...
Scarecrow responds to objections from the underworld boss that purchased his ...
The Joker looks up at the detective at the door of the interrogation room fro...
Feeling responsible for Rachel's death and Dent's injury, and ready to quit, ...
Fox, looking at the immense amount of information being fed to the computer, ...
Batman shows Fox a wall of computer monitors accepting input from the entire ...
Batman and the Joker argue the merits of Gotham's citizenry, just after Batma...
Alfred, looking on the multitude of scars on Bruce's upper body, advises him ...
Batman shoots the blades from the cuff of his suite at the Joker who's perche...
Gordon exits the interrogation room leaving the Joker alone with Batman.
Bruce returns to Fox's division at Wayne Enterprises yet again.
The Mayor joins Gordon outside the holding cell in which the Joker sits.
Alfred has a few gems of wisdom and a bit of insight that Bruce lacks, and is...
In the penthouse, Bruce is about to share his reason for the holding the fund...
Gordon tries to talk Batman out of taking the fall for Dent's crimes.
At the fund raiser he's thrown for Dent, Bruce considers giving up the Batman.
Batman stands over the Joker after he's beaten him and thrown him around the ...
Standing before the pile of money that he recovered for the mob bosses, the J...
Alfred sutures Bruce's wound while Bruce shares the down side of the previous...
Lying wounded on the floor of the bank, the manager shouts up at the robber a...
Holding Gambol by the back of his head with a knife placed near his mouth, Jo...
Holding a coin up in one hand a holding a gun to the head of one of Gordon's ...
While crashing the fund raiser that Wayne's throwing for Dent, one of the gue...
Filled with rage, anxious to save Rachel and Dent, Batman goes out of bounds,...
Standing over Dent in the hospital, the Joker shares his twisted view of the ...
As the Joker burns the mobs money he demotes the Chechen.
Rachel, on the phone with Dent, assures him, for reasons she can't share, tha...
Batman tells Gordon they should put dealing with the Joker on hold, believing...
Alfred provides a bit of stimulus to keep Bruce going after the loss of Rache...
Alfred and Batman shut down the Bat Operations Center just prior to Bruce ann...
Batman wraps up the copycats along with the bad guys so the police can pick t...
As Bruce shuts down his Bat operations center, Alfred advises against it.
Joker sits on the floor of the interrogation room, asking the detective to gi...
Batman, on the Batbike heads directly toward the on-coming Joker in a semi.
As Bruce sits, blaming himself for Rachel's demise, Alfred encourages him to ...
The Joker tells the underworld bosses how to fix their problems.
Joker gets the best of Batman after Batman helps to rescue the Prewitt Buildi...
The Joker enters the underworld bosses meeting while Lau is explaining why he...
Alfred question the cause of the wound that he's stitching up on Bruce's arm.
While pulling a bank heist for the Joker, his men discuss him.
At one of Wayne's restaurants, Dent defends Batman to Rachel, Wayne and Wayne...
Bruce makes a grand entrance to the fund raiser he's thrown Dent.
Lau trades for his freedom with Rachel after Batman brought him back into the...
Dent, partially blaming Gordon for what's happened to him as well as Rachel, ...
Rachel pokes fun at Dent at the fund raiser Wayne's thrown him because he's u...
When Batman enters the interrogation room and slams the Joker's head on the t...
Batman tosses Joker around the interrogation room in an attempt to gain the w...
Joker explains himself to some of the underworld bosses before burning up the...
At the fund raiser he's thrown for Dent, Bruce considers giving up the Batman.
Alfred enters the makeshift Batcave to find Bruce suturing a wound from his p...
The Joker stands in the road as Batman drives toward him on the Batbike.
Bruce hands Fox sketches of the suite he wants Fox to build for him.
Dent finds Wuertz where he's drinking in a bar while the rest of Gotham's fin...
After Batman defuses the hostage situation in the Prewitt Building and preven...
Gordin interrogates the Joker as to Dent's whereabouts.
Holding Maroni at gun point in the back of his own car, Dent presses him for ...
Harvey is uncomfortable around Wayne's highclass friends.
The Joker stands over Dent in his hospital room, attempting to deflect the bl...
When the Joker crashes the fundraiser Wayne holds for Dent, he puts a knife t...
When Gordon exits Dent's hospital room, Maroni is in the corridor.
Fox gives the accountant reason to rethink his plan to blackmail Wayne for $1...
In his penthouse, Wayne tells Rachel that he's going to give in to the Joker'...
Rachel quotes Dent as he climbs in the back of a police van setting himself u...
During the bank robbery, Joker sticks an explosive in the mouth of a bank man...
The Joker goads the detective assigned to guarding him in the interrogation r...
After Rachel's death, Wayne sits quietly in the penthouse and questions Alfre...
The Joker pursues Dent in a semi, smashing police and civilian vehicles as he...
As the movie closes, Gordon and one of his sons watch Batman flee as he takes...
Joker does a television broadcast, during which he kills a Batman imitator. A...
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