Summary
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.
Details
Release Date: March 13, 1998
Runtime: 97 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Original Language: ES
Rating: ⭐ 6.4/10 (272 votes)
Torrente Collection
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.
Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.
Torrente 3: The Protector
A popular and beautiful politician plans to expose the evil-doings of a multinational corporation. Hoping to silence her, the corporation's top executives decide to hire the most incompetent detective they can find to act as her bodyguard.
Torrente 4: Lethal crisis
The rude, lewd and crude Spanish ex-police officer Torrente finds himself facing jail time. Can he survive a twisted irony that places him where he has put so many others, both guilty and innocent?
Torrente 5
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.
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