36 Quai des Orfèvres (also known as "The 36") is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu.

The story is loosely inspired from real events which occurred during the 1980s in France (see the gang des postiches arrest).

Vrinks and his team kidnap Bruno, drive him to a forest where they strip and bind him, give him a mock execution, push him into an open grave, warn him to leave the bartender alone, and then abandon him.

Vrinks' use of informants backfires when one on weekend release from prison, Silien (Roschdy Zem), tricks him into being his getaway driver when he murders a gangster whose testimony convicted him.

Silien, in a quid pro quo for Vrinks' providing an alibi and keeping silent, tells him about the gang's personnel and hideout.

While most are still apprehended, an alerted car load open fire, killing Vrinks' best friend and taking a detective hostage.

An investigation is launched into the detective's death, but one of Klein's informants coincidentally introduces him to a prostitute who witnessed the murder by Silien.

They flee but Klein orders that Camille's small and insubstantial car forced off the road and she and Silien are killed in the crash.

Klein, who now heads the Paris criminal police, kept his team silent about the truth of Camille's death by promotions, retirements and transfers.