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2025 · crime · drama · supernatural

Case 137

Directed by Dominik Moll1h 55m2025

Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Our read: Case 137 (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive crime · drama · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Sombre, steady, measured crime / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.

ElsewhereIMDb7.1401RT94%Metacritic73
  • sombre
  • intense
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DNA · twelve axes

How Case 137 feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want a serious French police procedural about internal affairs probing brutality.”

ends ambiguousit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 8attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
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Skip it tonight — Skip if institutional police drama without easy answers feels dry tonight.

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