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Caught some of the ending of this. Dunno
how accurate it might be. Clever, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistlers_(film)

The Whistlers (Spanish: La Gomera) is a
2019 crime black comedy thriller film
directed by Corneliu Porumboiu and
starring Vlad Ivanov.

Zsolt, a corrupt businessman in Bucharest
in league with Spanish gangsters, has been
smuggling drug money out of the country in
mattresses. Among those on his payroll are
his mistress, the glamorous Gilda, and
Cristi, a police inspector whose payoffs
are left in his mother's cellar. When Zsolt
is arrested, the Spaniards concoct a plot
to free both him and the latest
mattressfuls of cash. Cristi will be
seduced by Gilda and taken to the Spanish
island of La Gomera to learn El Silbo, the
native whistling language. Back in Bucharest,
he will then poison Zsolt, who will be rushed
to hospital under guard. Once Cristi has
ascertained the room number, he will whistle
it to Gilda outside and the Spaniards will
then rescue Zsolt. Many things go wrong and
most characters get killed while Cristi,
badly injured, ends up in hospital. Gilda
finds out the room number and whistles to
him to join her at a hotel in Singapore.