Bad Lieutenant (1992)
- Directed by
- Abel Ferrara
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- NC-17
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 968 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A corrupt New York police detective spirals deeper into drugs, gambling, and crime while investigating a nun's rape. His own vices and guilt push him toward a personal crisis he cannot escape.
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What happens
Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara, from a screenplay co-written with Zoë Lund. It stars Harvey Keitel as the title character "bad lieutenant", an unnamed and corrupt New York police officer, who suffers a string of personal and spiritual crises. The film premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, where it screened in the Un Certain Regard section. Due to its graphic violence and drug use, the film was released in the United States with an NC-17 rating. Despite limited theatrical distribution, it was praised by critics and has become one of Ferrara's best-known works. Martin Scorsese named this movie as one of the best movies of the entire 1990s. A follow-up film entitled Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, also produced by Edward R. Pressman, was released in 2009. Despite sharing a title and a similar premise, it was described as being "not a remake". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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