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Police (1985)

Police poster
Directed by
Maurice Pialat, Catherine Breillat
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
12
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 127 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A jaded police detective works a drug case and gets involved with a mysterious woman. She draws him into a shady and dangerous scheme.

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What happens

Police is a 1985 French neo noir crime drama film directed by Maurice Pialat and starring Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, and Sandrine Bonnaire. Written by Catherine Breillat, the film is about a moody, jaded police detective investigating a drug ring who falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme. The film had 1,830,970 admissions in France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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