The Fifth Cord
A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.
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1975★ 7.7
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1972★ 5.8
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1972★ 6.7
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1972★ 6.6
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1972★ 6.5
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Torso
1973★ 6.6
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2007★ 6.1
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2024★ 6.4
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
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