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Plainclothes

2025 · Thriller · Carmen Emmi · 1h 32m

In 1990s upstate New York, a young plainclothes officer works a sting entrapping gay men in shopping malls, and starts a secret affair with one of the men he was sent to arrest. Tense and close, with most of the pressure inside him.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Clearly heavy

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