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The French Connection (1971)

★ 7.5 · 2,115 ratings on TMDB

Doyle is bad news—but a good cop.

The French Connection poster★ 7.5

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

DirectorWilliam Friedkin
CastAnn Rebbot, Arlene Farber, Bill Hickman, Fernando Rey, Frédéric de Pasquale, Gene Hackman
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

The French Connection keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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