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The French Connection (1971)
The French Connection is one of the best crime thriller films out there. It is a gritty, exciting, edge of your seat thrill ride containing one of the greatest chase scenes ever commited to film. Gene Hackman plays Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle and Roy Scheider plays his partner Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo two New York City Narcotics agent attempting to intercept a shipment of heroin from France to New York. The intensity in which Hackman plays Popeye Doyle (a role in which he won the Academy Award) is incredible.
Director William Friedkin mixes traditional Hollywood style with French New Wave aesthetics to create a highly stylized film - fast, gritty and real.
Along with Dirty Harry (released on the same year) it turns the table on the traditional good guy cop role and shows the cops as being just as ruthless as the criminals - that isn't to say they're crooked, it just means they're willing to do much more than the average cop to get what they need.
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