Dirty Harry (1971) is a gritty, hard-boiled crime thriller that redefined the cop genre and introduced one of cinema’s most iconic antiheroes. Set against the seedy underbelly of San Francisco, the film follows Inspector Harry Callahan—a tough, no-nonsense cop with a .44 Magnum and zero patience for red tape—as he hunts down a psychotic sniper known as Scorpio. With the clock ticking and lives on the line, Harry walks a razor-thin line between justice and vengeance, bending the rules to stop a killer the system can’t catch. Brutal, uncompromising, and dripping with tension, Dirty Harry pulls no punches in its exploration of crime, morality, and what it takes to stop evil.