Kopps

Kopps (2003) is a Swedish action-comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Josef Fares and starring his brother Fares Fares. The premise: the town of Högboträsk has gone a full decade without a single crime, and the regional police board has decided to shut the local precinct for good.

Officer Benny and his colleagues spend their shifts drinking coffee, chasing stray cows and rewatching Hollywood cop films they'll never get to live out. Facing unemployment, they arrive at a solution that is both desperate and perfectly logical — if there's no crime, they'll manufacture some. The operation escalates faster than any of them expected.

Josef Fares has a gift for comic momentum: the escalation here is precise, and Fares Fares plays Benny as an entirely earnest man with no self-awareness whatsoever. The film is funnier for it. Stream Kopps (2003) online on iFILM.