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Movies: Best "true crime" Movies

True crime is a nonfiction literary, podcast, and film genre in which the author examines a crime and details the actions of people associated with and affected by criminal events. It is a cultural phenomenon that can refer to the promotion of sensationalized and emotionally charged content around the subject of violent crime, for the general public. ()

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An American Crime(2007)

R
| 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Horror
3.7/5 (with 279 votes)

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror(2022)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 34 votes)

Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity.

Directed by Choi Jin-sung

The Good Nurse(2022)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 536 votes)

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Cleveland Abduction(2015)

1h 28min | Drama, Crime, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 151 votes)

A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

Directed by Alex Kalymnios - With Taryn Manning

The Murdaugh Murders(2023)

1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A determined reporter interviews the infamous Alex Murdaugh and hopes for answers pertaining to the alleged murders of his wife and son.

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman(2021)

1h 50min | Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 37 votes)

Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.

Directed by Daniel Farrands - With Chad Michael Murray, Olivia DeLaurentis, Greer Grammer, Alice Prime, Asante Jones, Anthony De Longis, ...

The Craigslist Killer(2011)

1h 35min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 35 votes)

Based on a true story. Philip Markoff, a charismatic and popular med student at Boston University, leads a double life as a brutal and cruel sexual deviant who abuses prostitutes he finds via Craigslist.

American Murder: The Family Next Door(2020)

3.7/5 (with 278 votes)

Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.

Directed by Jenny Popplewell

City of Lies(2018)

R
| 1h 52min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.2/5 (with 237 votes)

Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case -- the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur -- but after two decades, the investigation remains open. Jack Jackson, a reporter desperate to save his reputation and career, is determined to find out why. In search of the truth, the two team up and unravel a growing web of institutional corruption and lies.

In Cold Blood(1967)

R
| 2h 14min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 164 votes)

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

Yara(2021)

1h 36min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 164 votes)

The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri has only a bit of DNA without a database to compare it to. Based on a true story.

Amanda Knox(2016)

1h 32min | Documentary, Crime
3.3/5 (with 248 votes)

This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.

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Snowtown(2011)

2h | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 126 votes)

Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker(2023)

1h 25min | Documentary, Crime
3.0/5 (with 51 votes)

This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the steep downward spiral that resulted in his imprisonment.

Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru(2017)

2h 37min | Action, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 27 votes)

Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (The Warrior: Chapter One): A hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre(1967)

NR
| 1h 40min | History, Crime
3.2/5 (with 43 votes)

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.

Untold: Malice at the Palace(2021)

1h 8min | Documentary, Crime
3.6/5 (with 39 votes)

Key figures from an infamous November 19th 2004 incident between players and fans at an NBA game in Michigan discuss the fight, its fallout and its lasting legacy.

Directed by Floyd Russ

Team Foxcatcher(2016)

1h 31min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 54 votes)

With never-before seen home video, this film recounts the paranoid downward spiral of John E. du Pont and the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz.

Directed by Jon Greenhalgh

Dillinger(1973)

R
| 1h 47min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 41 votes)

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

Square One(2019)

1h 28min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
4.4/5 (with 24 votes)

An investigation into the original 1993 Michael Jackson allegations brought by the Chandler family.

Sacco & Vanzetti(1971)

3.8/5 (with 78 votes)

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchic political convictions.

The Case Against Adnan Syed(2019)

Explores the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a case brought to global attention by the hugely popular Serial podcast.

Directed by Amy J. Berg

Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret(2013)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie
2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

True story based on Jodi Arias, a seductive 28-year-old aspiring photographer found guilty of killing her former lover, Travis Alexander, who was found nude in his home shower with a slit throat, 27 additional stab wounds and a bullet to the head. While investigating the violent killing, Mesa, Arizona police retrieved a digital camera from Alexander’s washing machine, revealing shocking images authorities claim Arias took during their sexual escapades, as well as during and after his murder. While Jodi pled not guilty and contends she killed Alexander in self-defense, police concluded that when he broke off their relationship, she stalked her ex-boyfriend and seduced him one final time before murdering him in cold blood. Her subsequent trial has been grand theater, dominating the cable news networks as she testified in her own defense and offered explicit insight into the sex, lies and obsession that led up to Alexander’s murder.

Helter Skelter(2004)

2h 17min | Action, Crime, Drama, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

The rise of Charles Manson and his "family," who are responsible for a series of famous murders in the late 1960s. Manson, a magnetic and mysterious man, attracts road-weary single mother Linda Kasabian to join his collection of outcasts on a ranch outside of Los Angeles. After murdering actress Sharon Tate, Manson and his followers are investigated by district attorney Vincent Bugliosi.

Long Shot(2017)

3.6/5 (with 64 votes)

When Juan Catalan is arrested for a murder he insists he didn't commit, he builds his case for innocence around unexpected raw footage.

Directed by Jacob LaMendola - With Larry David

Why Did You Kill Me?(2021)

1h 23min | Documentary, Crime
3.1/5 (with 65 votes)

The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.

Directed by Fredrick Munk

A Life Too Short: The Isabella Nardoni Case(2023)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

When a 5-year-old girl falls from her father's apartment, her mother embarks on a quest for justice — and is put under the national spotlight.

O.J.: Made in America(2016)

4.2/5 (with 93 votes)

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

Directed by Ezra Edelman

Bluebeard(1963)

1h 55min | Comedy, Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

France, WWI. Landru, the father of four Children, contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces and eventually kills them in order to feed his little family.

Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case(2023)

1h 40min | Documentary, Crime
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

July 1, 2000. British 21-year-old Lucie Blackman goes missing in Tokyo, sparking an international investigation — and an unyielding quest for justice.

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