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The City of Lost Children
1995
· Movie
· 112 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1332
- IMDb #1294
- Rotten Tomatoes #1148
- Metacritic #945
- Letterboxd #1245
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2062
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #653
- Metacritic Critics #1225
- Metacritic Audience #681
- Criticker #565
- Kinopoisk #2066
- AlloCiné #1144
- Trakt #1620
Every rating
63–89
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 89.
See the most agreed on films →A sinister scientist who cannot dream kidnaps children from the harbor city to steal their dreams. A circus strongman teams up with a young orphan girl and a group of street urchins to rescue his kidnapped little brother. They journey to the scientist's nightmarish lair, a bizarre offshore platform filled with cloned henchmen and strange inventions.
Details
- Directors
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
- Writers
- Gilles Adrien, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
- Released
- 17 May 1995
- Country
- France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom
- Language
- French, Cantonese
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $1.7M
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Cast
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Awards
5 wins & 14 nominations total
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