La Balance DVD – Nathalie Baye, Richard Berry

Leotard, a pimp, is co-erced by the police into becoming a ‘balance’ (slang for an informer) in an operation to capture an underworld gang.To do this he is forced to betray his girlfriend. Winner of three Cesar awards: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress.

In the dark and dangerous streets of Paris lurks an underworld full of lowlifes pimps and hookers. The elite undercover cops turn a pimp (Philippe Leotard) into an informer in order to crack the crooked world he inhabits… This gritty realistic slice of the Parisian underbelly has been much copied but never bettered!