Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs

1978 · 107 min · EN · NR · 5.8 (50 votes)
Dir. Roger Donaldson · Starring Sam Neill, Ian Mune, Warren Oates, Nevan Rowe, Donna Akersten, Ian Watkin · Music Mathew Brown

“What happens when you're hunted...and there's no place to run!”

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Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.

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A grim, politically charged descent into a fractured society. It’s a tense, morally murky thriller where survival means navigating a brutal landscape of ideological conflict and personal betrayal.

grittytensebleaknihilisticsteadyneo-noirpolitical thrillergritty realismsurvivalpolitical corruptionresistancemoral ambiguity
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civil warbased on novel or bookdystopianew zealand