policier

[paw-lee-syey]

noun

plural

policiers 

1. French.,  a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.

Example Sentences

Law and Hoult give emotionally detailed, deeply felt performances that partly work against type, while the film’s unblinking portrait of the seductive, corrosive power of hate gives it a power that rises above a typical cat-and-mouse policier.

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Friedkin won his only Oscar, for best director, for this ferociously entertaining policier, which remains one of the great New York movies, a seedy snapshot of the city as it once existed — at least through the jaundiced perspective of a detective who has his share of blind spots.

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Directed by Dominik Moll, this austere Grenoble-set policier raises questions about the prevalence of misogyny in French culture and the country’s high rates of sexual violence.

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One of its creators, Anne Landois, was a showrunner and writer for the classic policier “Spiral,” and the other, Gaëlle Bellan, wrote for both “Spiral” and the great spy thriller “The Bureau.”

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As he theorizes a culprit, an existential policier plays out against a background of strikes and demonstrations, under constant state surveillance.

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