Tightrope

Wes Block is a New Orleans cop assigned to the case of a serial rapist and killer of women who strikes in the famous and troubled French Quarter. The investigation becomes a psychological challenge for Wes when he discovers that his personality and behavior have many points in common with the killer. Buried fears from his past surface in the detective's mind and intensify when women he knows are murdered. A psychological thriller praised by American critics as one of the best of the 1980s.