Step into the shadows of the late-1970s New York underground with William Friedkin’s notoriously provocative psychological thriller.
Al Pacino (Heat) stars as Steve Burns, an ambitious young police officer sent deep undercover into the heavy leather and S&M bars of the Meatpacking District. His mission: to blend into the subculture and bait a sadistic serial killer targeting gay men.
As Burns adopts a dual identity to draw out the murderer, the assignment begins to erode his own sense of self, pulling him into an obsessive, fractured psychological spiral. Filmed on location in the actual clubs of the era, Cruising remains a raw, atmospheric, and fiercely debated piece of cinema. Featuring a driving punk and electronic soundtrack alongside Friedkin’s signature gritty realism, it stands as a fascinatingly dark capsule of New York counterculture.