Police
1985 · 113 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 3,120 VOTES · DIR. Maurice Pialat
Overview
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,424 lines
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00:00:51 Listen. Let's do this differently
00:04:31 And Simon doesn't take any money
00:08:54 Nothing in here
00:13:43 - How long have you lived with Noria? - About ten months
00:17:24 Nice to meet you. I'll see you in a little while
00:21:03 All right, calm down
00:24:29 Mr El Gassah, will you follow me, please?
00:29:34 They held me at gunpoint and asked for the key to the safe
00:33:38 You said you were ex-directory cos you don't want to get hassled
00:37:48 - What's going on? - Nothing, I'm changing my shirt
00:41:33 Well, me, too
00:46:52 You know lame criminals are usually real pains in the neck
00:51:53 Right, so he's wondering why he's not been let out
00:55:46 - I'm not guilty - I don't care. I did my job
01:00:50 Do you really think about your man behind bars?
01:04:37 ...having sex!
01:09:04 I'll take you to your car
01:16:12 The youngest one
01:20:41 They'll do everything to make him talk. They're nuts
01:25:35 No worse than others
01:30:41 They're going crazy. They think I was involved
01:35:29 Noria's not even my name. It was Simon's idea
01:40:59 - You went at it again? - Yeah
357:07:22 how about that?