Police
A legendary Turkish homicide officer races to protect his family, confront the mafia, and acknowledge an impossible love after learning he has only months to live.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Brutal
- morbid
- absurd
- melancholic
- late night viewing
- arthouse cinema night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Musa learns he has only two months to live just as mafia threats against his family intensify.
The black-comedy classification merges Musa's cancer diagnosis, police violence, family celebration, and romantic complications.
Musa, approaching his sixty-third birthday, struggles to reveal his love to Funda, a university student forty years younger.
The Turkish police-and-mafia milieu is presented through an unconventional black-comedy sensibility rather than straightforward procedural realism.
Films like Police, and why
The Guard
blackly comic crime drama combining a veteran lawman's mortality with stylized violence and emotional absurdity
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
offbeat Turkish crime storytelling marked by dark humor, eccentric characters, and a heightened tragicomic tone
In Bruges
morbidly playful crime film where violence, mortality, and absurd humor coexist within a stylized character study
Movie Details
- Director
- Onur Ünlü
- Release Date
- 2007-02-16
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (41)
Cast
- Haluk Bilginer
- Özgü Namal
- Ragıp Savaş
- Sermiyan Midyat
- Settar Tanrıöğen
- Kaan Çakır
- Emre Karayel
- Zafer Diper
- Aylin Çalap
- Sinan Çalışkanoğlu
Common questions
- What is Police about?
- A legendary Turkish homicide officer races to protect his family, confront the mafia, and acknowledge an impossible love after learning he has only months to live.
- What is Police like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Police as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Police violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Police as brutal.
- Which films are like Police?
- Films with a similar feel include The Guard, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, and In Bruges.
- How long is Police?
- Police runs 110 minutes.
