Hidden City is a 1987 British political thriller drama film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff in his directorial debut.
[3] Infuriated by receiving the wrong piece of film, statistician James Richards arranges for the researcher who made the mistake, Sharon Newton, to be sacked.
As this film has been registered classified by the Ministry of Defence, Sharon, obsessed by the identity of the woman, needs James, with his official credentials, to help her find it.
But upon viewing the film, they find that it is very poor quality, revealing only a dark image of a woman in front of some kind of tribunal.
James is not entirely unhappy to find his comfortable life disrupted by the search for the film, and wakes up, after a drunken evening spent at a video duplication service, at Sharon's house, where he discovers that she has a young daughter.
Moving forward in time, the film documents the birth of an abruptly aborted government project named Magnificat.