My New Partner (1984)

Original title

Les Ripoux

Directed by

Claude Zidi

Genre

comedy film, buddy film, crime film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 272 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Paris cop who takes bribes from criminals gets stuck with a naive new partner. He tries to get his colleague involved in the corruption with unexpected results.

lightheartedplayfulamusingbuddycopscorruptionfast-paced

What happens

My New Partner, also called Le Cop, is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi that stars Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue but is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from training. His efforts to enmesh his colleague in the prevailing corruption succeed spectacularly. The original French title is Les Ripoux, backslang for les pourris meaning the rotten ones. It won the César Award for Best Film in 1985 and was followed by two sequels: Ripoux contre Ripoux (1990) and Ripoux 3 (2003). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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