Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1987 · Directed by Francesco Rosi · 109 min · drama film

★ 7.3/10 · 88 ratings on TMDB

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.