Serpico

Director: Sydney Lumet

1973 / 130min / DCP

Shot entirely on the scuzzy streets of ’70s New York City, Lumet’s provocative, passionate policier tells, via an ingenious flashback structure, the true story of the renegade NYPD officer Detective Frank Serpico (Al Pacino), who risked his career and his life to uncover a systematic culture of widespread graft, greed, and corruption inside the department. “Sidney Lumet’s Serpico… is galvanizing because of Pacino’s splendid performance in the title role and because of the tremendous intensity that Mr. Lumet brings to this sort of subject.”—The New York Times