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French Connection II (1975)

★ 6.8 · 468 ratings on TMDB

The French Connection was only the beginning. THIS IS THE CLIMAX.

French Connection II poster★ 6.8

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

DirectorJohn Frankenheimer
CastAndré Penvern, Bernard Fresson, Cathleen Nesbitt, Charles Millot, Ed Lauter, Fernando Rey
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

French Connection II 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.

The Train (1964)dir. John FrankenheimerRonin (1998)dir. John FrankenheimerSeconds (1966)dir. John FrankenheimerThe French Connection (1971)Fernando ReyFamily Plot (1976)Cathleen NesbittEnemy of the State (1998)Gene Hackman