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The Fifth Cord
Why this pick
Its rain-slick, fashionably gloomy Italian setting and investigative structure echo The Bloodstained Butterfly, with a journalist pulled through a string of elegant, unsettling murders.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1971 1h 39m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Death Laid an Egg
Why this pick
A colder, more experimental Italian thriller with fractured motives, adultery, and an atmosphere of privileged rot—well suited to the original's poisonous domestic undercurrents.
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The Sweet Body of Deborah
Why this pick
It shares the polished giallo look, marital suspicion, and steadily tightening uncertainty of The Bloodstained Butterfly, favoring adult psychological unease over action.
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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Why this pick
For another early-1970s giallo steeped in couture, family secrets, and ominous killings, with a similarly lush visual surface and melodramatic sense of dread.
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Why this pick
Its sophisticated European milieu, probing investigation, and pervasive sense that respectable society conceals something monstrous make it an especially strong tonal companion.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When an attractive college student (Carole Andre) is stabbed to death in the park during a rainstorm, the police arrest TV sports announcer Alessandro Marchi (Giancarlo Sbragia) as the killer. His attorney presents a weak defense and Marchi is incarcerated, not realizing his lawyer is having an affair with his wife, and the two are glad to get rid of him. But the murders continue, so the police begin to think they've jailed the wrong man.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Helmut Berger
Giorgio
Günther Stoll
Attorney Giulio Cordaro
Carole André
Françoise Pigaut
Stefano Oppedisano
Wolfgang Preiss
The Prosecutor