Which 1992 movie has this tagline: "Gambler Thief Junkie Killer Cop"?

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The 1992 movie associated with the tagline “Gambler Thief Junkie Killer Cop” is Bad Lieutenant. Abel Ferrara directed this stark crime drama, with Harvey Keitel playing an unnamed New York City police lieutenant whose addictions and corruption consume his life.

The tagline captures the film’s portrait of its protagonist: he gambles on baseball, uses drugs, steals through his authority, and commits brutal abuses while wearing a police badge. The movie follows his increasingly desperate attempt to investigate a nun’s assault and find a form of spiritual redemption.

Bad Lieutenant was released in 1992 and became one of Ferrara’s best-known films. Its grim style and religious themes distinguish it from a conventional police thriller. Viewers sometimes confuse it with the later 2009 film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage; that movie is a separate, loosely related work.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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