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Director:
Writers:
Mathieu Fabiani (dialogue) and
Bob Swaim (dialogue) ...
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Release Date:
10 November 1982 (France) more
Plot:
Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole... more | add synopsis
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3 wins & 5 nominations more
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Excellent Thriller With Gallic Style more (11 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Nathalie Baye | ... | Nicole Danet |
| Philippe Léotard | ... | Dédé Laffont |
| Richard Berry | ... | Mathias Palouzi |
| Maurice Ronet | ... | Roger Massina |
| Bernard Freyd | ... | Le Capitaine |
| Christophe Malavoy | ... | Tintin |
| Jean-Paul Comart | ... | Le Belge (as Jean-Paul Connart) |
| Albert Dray | ... | Carlini |
| Florent Pagny | ... | Simoni |
 | Tchéky Karyo | ... | Petrovic (as Tcheky Karyo) |
| Raouf Ben Yaghlane | ... | Djerbi |
| Galia Salimo | ... | Sabrina, la prostituée (as Galia Dujardin) |
| Sam Karmann | ... | Paulo Sanchez |
| Robert Atlan | ... | Ayouche |
| Luc-Antoine Diquéro | ... | Picard |
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The Nark (USA) (informal literal English title)
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France:103 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Norway:18 (theatrical rating) | Australia:M | Sweden:15 | USA:R | UK:18
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I can't believe that this movie has no comments and hardly any votes. It's a tough 1982 thriller set in Paris' Algerian sector. A specialist Police Unit pressurise a pimp and his hooker into becoming informants to enable them to bring down a local gangster. Although directed by an American (spot the U.S. film posters at the Police Station), the film is full of French style. The clothes, the food, the shades... The pacing is fast, the plot is good and the characters are fascinating. Baye is incredibly sexy as the 'tart with a heart' and Leotard looks suitably seedy as the pimp in love with her. It's a strange relationship, letting your lover have sex with strangers in order to put money in the joint account! I also like the way that the cops, who arrest and harass hookers, are shown to be willing to use their services on lonely nights. Pace, excitement, black humour and romance. What more can one ask from a thriller? 8/10