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★★★★★

Original title: A Cop · Turkish title: Gecelerin Adamı

1972 · 1 h 38 min

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

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Cast

Alain Delon Catherine Deneuve

Credits

Written by: Jean-Pierre Melville

Plot

His last film, a police and gangster drama.

Sinekatalog’s take

Jean-Pierre Melville's final film is a cool, minimalist police thriller with Alain Delon. Spare and melancholic, with a famous helicopter-train heist, it is a stylish, if dispassionate, farewell.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (12,497 votes)
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