Il bambino e il poliziotto (1989) on Netflix

Plot summary

Carlo Vinciguerra is a police officer investigating a drug trafficking cartel. To get inside it, he poses as a drug-addicted nephew of someone Rosanna Clerici knows and has her taken into custody on a possession charge at a gathering in her apartment. Only then does he see that she has a young son, Giulio, with no one else to care for him. A judge must decide on Rosanna's request for house arrest, and until then Carlo is left hosting the boy. The arrangement upends his life as a bachelor and strains his secret relationship with a married colleague. Rosanna blames Carlo for trapping her and permits him to keep Giulio mainly because she fears the criminal circle she was still in touch with.