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- Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) The thought of your child being taken from you is every parent's worst nightmare, which makes the lack of intervention in this twisted story all the more upsetting.
- Amanda Knox (2016) The saga of Amanda Knox has been one of the most public cases of the modern age. This 2016 documentary chronicles her journey from being convicted for the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher to her experience of being smeared by the press and her eventual acquittal.
- American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) This unusual documentary examines the heart-wrenching true story of what happened to Shanann Watts and her children when they disappeared from their Colorado home in 2018.
- American Nightmare (2024) On March 23, 2015, Aaron Quinn dialed 911 to report a bizarre crime: He and his girlfriend, Denise Huskins, were ambushed in their home by an intruder who blindfolded them with blacked-out swim goggles, drugged them with NyQuil, and abducted Denise in the trunk of his white Mustang.
- The Good Nurse
- Baby Driver
- The Pale Blue Eye
- The Irishman
- The Unforgivable
- Missing
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Berlin Syndrome
- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith
An intimate and brilliantly acted crime film, The Good Nurse stars Oscar winners Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain in the chilling true story of Charlie Cullen, a serial killer who murdered patients while working as a nurse. The Good Nurse premiered in fall 2022 to positive critical notices.
Director Edgar Wright pieced together a musical masterpiece with this romp starring Ansel Elgort and Lily James. Every scene lines up perfectly with a piece of music, making for a delightful treat for the senses.
The formidable talents of Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson, Harry Melling and Toby Jones star in Scott Cooper's atmospheric adaptation of the 2003 novel about a 19th-century private eye investigating murders at a military academy—where Edgar Allan Poe happens to be a cadet. The Pale Blue Eye premiered on Netflix over holiday season 2022 to high vie...
Martin Scorsese‘s long-gestating crime epic, centered on Jimmy Hoffa, is an extraordinary achievement in rich, slow-burn character development. It’s on Netflix, but the best way to see it is in one sitting, on the biggest screen possible. Front-and-center are titanic turns by Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and (out of retirement) Joe Pesci. Also front-a...
Sandra Bullock's latest makes the Bird Box star one of only two actors to have two films in Netflix's all-time top-10 movies (matched by Ryan Reynolds of Red Notice and 6 Underground). In mega-hit The Unforgivable, Bullock plays a woman trying to re-enter society after serving time for a violent crime.
In 2018, the sleeper hit Searching took the world by storm as an inventive thriller about a father looking for his missing daughter that took place entirely on a laptop screen. What could have been gimmicky was used to suspenseful perfection, and in the wake of its success, an anthology-style sequel was greenlit. Missing is a similar screen-life th...
Rian Johnson's follow-up to box-office leviathan Knives Out can't quite match the airtight thriller storytelling that was one of that masterpiece's most striking attributes, but it's arguably even more entertaining. An ensemble cast headlined by a returning Daniel Craig are uniformly excellent, though Janelle Monáe is really the star here, and she ...
So abundant we might as well make them their own genre, movies about kidnapped females generally go one of two ways: It’s either all about the suspense, figuring out how and if she will get out—or there’s the nastier route, when some moviesfocus on a woman’s torture and humiliation, turning it into spectacle. Though Australian director Cate Shortla...
One of the greatest television shows in history recently got a worthy coda, when three-time Emmy winner Aaron Paul returned as interminably suffering drug kingpin Jesse Pinkman in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. The highly anticipated follow-up to Vince Gilligan‘s crime saga Breaking Badis a Netflix original. There's undeniably fan service at play...
Long before their was the Maya Erskine and Donald Glover TV series, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie starred in this sexy, action-thriller about a pair of married assassins who only to realize the other's secret when they're each assigned to kill their spouse. Their white underwear looks are iconic, the fight scenes expertly choreographed and this is o...
- The Thin Blue Line. Errol Morris' classic true crime documentary is part investigative journalism, part documentary, and part dramatization. It's 100% genius, and a true crime documentary you will be talking about forever.
- Bonnie & Clyde. The true story of bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde has been romanticized so much over the years, who knows what's true and what's not. I'm not sure how much of this mini-series is based on fact or not, but either way, it's a pretty wacky true story.
- Bernie. Richard Linklater's black comedy sounds too wild to be true, but it is, in fact, based the true story of a small town man who killed a woman hated by the rest of the town.
- Team Foxcatcher. Not to be confused with the fictional retelling, Foxcatcher, Team Foxcatcher is a documentary that tells the true story of wrestling coach John du Pont and his controlling, dangerous obsession with wrestlers Mark and David Schultz.
Feb 22, 2024 · From Making a Murder to The Keepers to Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, Netflix has some of the best true-crime documentaries, movies, and TV shows available to stream for free. Here are...
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Cops. Killers. Gangsters. Heists. These true-crime movies and series, all based on a true story, must be seen to be believed–and even then it might be tough.
May 9, 2021 · A list of the best movies on Netflix based on a true story, including The Social Network, Mank, the Trial of the Chicago 7, and more Netflix movies.
Jan 14, 2023 · Looking for some quality true crime to watch at home? Here are the best true crime documentaries, series, and adaptations that you can watch at home on Netflix and other streaming...
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