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Zodiac
Why this pick
Matches Citizen X’s painstaking, years-spanning pursuit of a killer, with procedural detail, institutional frustration, and an atmosphere of obsession rather than action-driven thrills.
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MOVIE1995 1h 45m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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The Silence
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This rigorous police drama shares the film’s focus on a determined investigator navigating internal resistance while pursuing a deeply unsettling murder case.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A body is discovered on a collective farming during harvesting in 1982. A subsequent search of adjacent woods, authorized by newly installed forensic science specialist, Viktor Burakov, turns up seven more bodies in varying stages of decomposition. The film tells the story of the subsequent eight-year hunt by Burakov for the serial killer responsible for the mutilation and murder of 53 people, 52 of them below the age of 35. Burakov is promoted to detective and eventually aided, covertly at first, by Col. Mikhail Fetisov, his commanding officer and the shrewd head of the provincial committee for crime, and, much later, by Alexandr Bukhanovsky, a psychiatrist with a particular interest in what he calls "abnormal psychology".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Max von Sydow
Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Joss Ackland
Bondarchuk
John Wood
Gorbunov
András Bálint
Ignatiev
Stephen Rea
Lt. Viktor Burakov
Donald Sutherland
Col. Mikhail Fetisov
Jeffrey DeMunn
Andrei Chikatilo
Imelda Staunton
Mrs. Burakov