The Cop (1970)

Original title

Un condé

Directed by

Yves Boisset

Genre

crime film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dedicated police inspector discovers that his fellow officers are corrupt. After a colleague is murdered, he decides to fight the criminals using the same violent methods as them.

tensegrittybleaksuspensefulmorally ambiguousslow-burnnoir-ishvicious

What happens

The Cop (French: Un condé, Italian: L'uomo venuto da Chicago) is a 1970 crime film directed by Yves Boisset. It features Michel Bouquet as Inspector Favenin and Françoise Fabian as Hélène Dassa. The film is about a committed policeman in a crooked police force who concludes that the only way to avenge the murder of a colleague by criminals is to use their own weapons of beatings and shootings. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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