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The following list is a summary of films directed by Christopher Nolan.

Following[]

Following tells the story of an aspiring writer who gets involved with a professional thief.

Memento[]

Memento shows a man with short term memory loss trying to track down his wife's killer.

Insomnia[]

Bullet in bag

Insomnia is a detective story set against the permanent sunlight of Alaska.

Batman Begins[]

Batman Begins (2005) gives the backstory of Bruce Wayne and his transformation from an orphaned child to Batman, the saviour of Gotham City.

The Prestige[]

The Prestige is the story of two rival magicians, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, in Victorian London.

The Dark Knight[]

The Dark Knight (2008) continues Batman's story as he is pitted against a deadly new enemy.

Inception[]

Inception (2010) is a science fiction heist movie set within the architecture of the human mind. Dominick Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief who specializes in extraction - the use of technology to enter the dreams of his marks and steal secrets from their subconscious minds. When his latest job goes awry, Cobb is offered a chance to obtain what he has been seeking all along - the opportunity to return to his children after being falsely accused of causing the death of his wife, Mal. However, accepting the job means performing a seemingly impossible task: "inception", planting an idea into someone's mind.

The Dark Knight Rises[]

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) concludes Nolan's Batman trilogy.

Interstellar[]

Interstellar (2014) is a science fiction movie set in space. Joseph Cooper is a widowed father of two children on Earth, where a blight has been gradually killing all sustainable food sources. Encouraged by his former mentor, Cooper makes the heartbreaking decision to pilot a mission to find another world for humanity, not knowing if he and his fellow explorers will succeed and encountering danger and treachery. Left on Earth, Cooper's daughter Murphy endures years of bitterness at being abandoned on a dying planet and becomes determined to solve a crucial equation that will allow humanity to live in space.

Dunkirk[]

Dunkirk depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II.

Tenet[]

Tenet follows the Protagonist as he attempts to prevent World War III.

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