Cul-de-sac
Turkish title: Bozuk Düzen
“Sometimes there’s nothing left to do but laugh!”
1966 · 1 h 52 min
Directed by 
Roman Polanski
Roman PolanskiCast
Donald Pleasence 
Françoise Dorléac
Credits
Written by: Roman Polanski
Plot
Two gangsters take over a castle on a tidal island.
Sinekatalog’s take
Roman Polanski's absurdist black comedy traps gangsters in a castle with a eccentric couple. Donald Pleasence is wonderfully neurotic, and the film is strange, funny and menacing in the Pinter-Beckett manner.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (15,157 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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