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Les Misérables After an honest, divorced, plainclothes French police corporal (Damien Bonnard) transfers to a new, volatile precinct in Paris to be nearer his son and joins a hotheaded, unethical, bribe-taking, seasoned sergeant (Alexis Manenti) and his longtime, North African cop partner (Djebril Zonga) on their anti-crime squad on his first day in Ladj Ly's gritty, powerful, critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated, violent, well-acted, dark, 104-minute film inspired by the devastating riots in Paris in 2005 and Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, tensions escalate as they struggle to stop a gang war in the ghetto between menacing gypsies (Raymond Lopez, et al.) who threaten rival Muslim Brotherhood members (Steve Tientcheu, Almamy Kanoute, et al.) while searching for a lion cub stolen from their traveling circus and when the dangerous situation quickly gets out of control, which happens to be filmed by a voyeuristic, tech-savvy geek (Al-Hassan Ly) flying a drone, due to an angry, marginalized group of children surrounding the officers and one of the kids (Issa Perica) is injured by a flash gun, many lives are threatened as the victim plans an ambush with neighborhood kids and his revenge on the three cops.   Redhead: Year: 2020 Rating:  R View Les Misérables on the Internet Movie Database