Dark Crimes 2018

In Warsaw, Poland, Tadek is a married detective who takes on a case involving the murder of a businessman, Daniel Sadowsky. To his and everyone’s surprise, the case mirrors a killing described in a recently published novel by a man named Kozlov. As he digs deeper to prove the novelist’s fictional crime is real, Tadek stumbles upon a shocking clue: a building called the sex cage where women are brought to be abused and raped by powerful businessmen. He watches videotapes that show both Kozlov and Sadowsky at the sex cage, participating in the abuse of women. Convinced of Kozlov’s guilt, Tadek arrests him and questions him, but he lacks hard evidence, and the suspect is released. Frustrated by a case that seems to outsmart him, Tadek breaks into Kozlov’s apartment to plant a recording device, only to be interrupted when Kozlov and his girlfriend Kasia enter. Tadek slips away, then returns the next day to press Kasia for answers. She reveals that she never feels safe, and that they end up having sex.

Kozlov taunts Tadek, telling him that he will be ruined for trying to pin a crime on an innocent man and insinuates he knows about Kasia and Tadek having sex, saying

You raped her.

Tadek goes back to Kasia’s apartment again, growing angrier, and forces her to sign a statement accusing Kozlov of killing Sadowsky. He arrests Kozlov again and shows him Kasia’s statement, to which Kozlov signs a confession for Sadowsky’s murder and is brought to jail. Tadek later reads a newspaper article showing that Kozlov was not in the area when Sadowsky was murdered, so he couldn’t have done it.

He visits Kasia again with this information and asks her to tell him the truth. Kasia gets both of them a shot of liquor, to which they both drink, and sit down. Kasia tells Tadek that Sadowsky would regularly rape her and force her to choke him. One time, she choked him but didn’t stop and she killed him. Kozlov helped her clean it up and is taking the fall for her. She tells him that kind of love is rare. The camera pans over to Tadek and he is slumped back on the couch, having died from being poisoned by what was in the shot Kasia gave him before confessing to the murder.