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Detectives Swallowed by the Case

A run of hunts where the case wins: watch these together to see obsession eat away at the cops, reporters and agents chasing a killer, from Seoul's rice fields to Gotham's rain.

Mostly well-loved, widely seen thrillers led by two modern canon titles (Zodiac, Memories of Murder), they're absorbing more than difficult, though the Nakashima and Perkins films are much nastier and need some stomach.