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I watched this movie during my childhood. It was a sci-fi movie and the environment is like a cyberpunk game or the Blade Runner movies. The sky was pitch-black all the time because the ozone layer had depleted and scientists did something to make the world pitch-black, like it was night all the time.

The movie is not Habitat and definitely from between the 80s and 90s. The main characters don't believe the scientists or politicians, so they try to reach somewhere to see the world in daytime.

IIRC, at the end of the movie, they finally get somewhere - like changing layers - and see the Sun. Also not sure, but around the ending, there is something like a rocket landing or a launch moment, like NASA's.

Dark City looks so similar and I got really surprised because Jennifer Connelly is in the movie, but I think this is not the one I am looking for. In my movie, they somehow managed to get somewhere to see the Sun, at least, but they were in some room with glasses and watching the rocket launching, I believe.

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  • Do you remember anything about the main character/s?
    – LogicDictates
    Commented Jan 1 at 19:40
  • Some of this sounds like a confused recall of Dark City.
    – DavidW
    Commented Jan 1 at 19:41
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    ^_^ Also probably not Highlander II which had eternal night to protect us from the ozone layer.
    – FuzzyBoots
    Commented Jan 1 at 19:50
  • Dark City looks so similar and i got really suprised because Jennifer Connelly is in the movie but i think this is not the one i am looking for. Interesting because it really looks like the movie i watched except the ending. Maybe the ozone layer theme was so pupular at that times. I remember we all get warned by TVs about the ozone layer and they try to ban deodorants in 90s :) In my movie they somehow managed to get somewhere to see the sun at least but they were in some room with glasses and watching the rocket launching i believe.
    – ogun
    Commented Jan 1 at 19:52
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    @ogun nobody wanted to ban deodorants in 90s. The problematic CFC used in the propellant at that time has been banned. That also affected fridges and other appliances.
    – Holger
    Commented Jan 3 at 11:07

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This is Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).

In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.

The film is set in the year 2024, 25 years after the activation of an electromagnetic shield designed to compensate for the depleted ozone layer by blocking out solar radiation. Some suspect the ozone layer has repaired itself and that the shield is no longer necessary, but the Shield Corporation responsible for maintaining the shield plans to keep it up forever. The depiction of New York City in this time period is reminiscent of Blade Runner's depiction of Los Angeles.

Image of the New York City skyline.

The film includes a flashback to the shield's activation in the year 1999, which resembles a rocket launch, with a team of scientists assembled in a bunker and using dark-tinted goggles to look out through a window as a countdown is called out, after which a beam is projected up into the sky to generate the shield. In the theatrical cut, this scene is shown at the beginning. In the longer Renegade Version and Special Edition, the scene is shown about halfway through.

Image of scientists looking out through the window of a bunker.

Toward the end of the longer versions of the film, there's also a scene where the male and female leads -- Connor MacLeod and Louise Marcus -- make their way to the top of a mountain, above the shield, and are able to view the daytime sky without being harmed, proving that the ozone layer has indeed repaired itself and that UV radiation levels are back to normal. This scene is not present in the theatrical cut, so you presumably saw the Renegade Version, released in 1995.

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    Yes this might be it because this movie was so popular in the Tvs at that time. Thanks
    – ogun
    Commented Jan 1 at 20:02
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    It's funny, the parts one remembers about films...
    – FuzzyBoots
    Commented Jan 2 at 12:10

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