Directed by Yves Boisset • Crime • 1970 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Gianni Garko

Michel Bouquet is judge, jury, and executioner in this nerve-twisting crime thriller from Yves Boisset. When a crackdown on drugs leads to his partner’s murder, a once-honest cop takes the law into his own hands. Armed with a furious desire for revenge, he uses morally questionable methods to track the assassins. Based on a novel by Pierre Lesou, “The Cop” is a jet-black neo-noir par excellence.