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The French Connection

1971 · Crime · William Friedkin · 1h 44m

Two New York narcotics detectives spend a winter tailing a French heroin shipment through Brooklyn. Cold, grubby, and it contains one famous car chase.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Clearly heavy

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    Describe: The Order

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  • The Chaser

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    A former detective now running escorts realises the man who took two of his women picks them up himself, and goes after him through Seoul at night. Frantic, and the police are useless.

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    Describe: The Chaser

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