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- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsDenzel WashingtonVicellous ShannonDeborah Kara UngerThe story of Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.Legendary boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter is framed for a triple homicide that he did not commit. This is his story.
- DirectorJohn MurlowskiStarsScott Anthony LeetCole WilliamsDusty SorgThe true story of William Bonin a California serial killer.California, 1970s. Serial killer William Bonin preys on young male hitchhikers. This is his story.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.Mobster Henry Hill's rise to power is chronicled in this startling, chilling crime drama.
- DirectorTommy O'HaverStarsElliot PageHayley McFarlandNick SearcyThe true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.A poignant insight into the events accumulating into teenage girl Sylvia Likens' torture slaying at the hands of a caregiver and her children.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsRobert BlakeScott WilsonJohn ForsytheTwo ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.Two sociopathic drifters murder a family "in cold blood" over mere cash and are subsequently forced on the run, and both begin to experience severe mental deterioration and accumulating guilt as the law closes in on them. The actual killer(s): Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. This is their story.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsKevin CostnerGary OldmanJack LemmonNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
- DirectorVondie Curtis-HallStarsJamie FoxxLynn WhitfieldLee Thompson YoungThe story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, the former leader of the "Crips" gang. Stan wrote award-winning children's books, brokered peace treaties between warring gangs, and won a Nobel Peace Prize nomination before he was executed.
- DirectorMatthew BrightStarsMichael Reilly BurkeBoti BlissJulianna McCarthyThe story of serial killer Ted Bundy.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsAlec BaldwinJames WoodsWhoopi GoldbergA Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.This film chronicles the investigation into Civil Rights icon Medgar Ever's assassination.
- DirectorNick CassavetesStarsEmile HirschJustin TimberlakeAnton YelchinJohnny and his pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother Zach, then assign his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder. They develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control.15-year-old Nick Markowitz was abducted, held captive and later shot to death over his older brother's unpaid debt.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsGene HackmanWillem DafoeFrances McDormandTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.Three civil-rights workers were kidnapped and later found savagely murdered in Mississippi, 1964. This film depicts the investigation into the slayings and its effects on the mental stability/well-being of the very detectives determined to find the killer(s).
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLeonardo DiCaprioTom HanksChristopher WalkenBarely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.Based upon notorious white-collar criminal Frank Abagnale's life, loves and many crimes.
- DirectorJohn McNaughtonStarsMichael RookerTracy ArnoldTom TowlesArriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.A cold, clinical look at the psyche of real-life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, a drifter who would pair with like-minded psychopath Ottis Toole to prey on vulnerable men and women throughout the Southern US.
- DirectorMichael BayStarsMark WahlbergDwayne JohnsonAnthony MackieA trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.Inspired by a Miami man's robbery-motivated murder in the mid-1990s.
- DirectorLarry ClarkStarsBrad RenfroNick StahlBijou PhillipsA pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanour has proven too much.19-year-old Bobby Kent, alleged to be a dominant and emotionally/physically abusive young man, was lured to a marshy area in South Florida and beaten to death by the very circle of friends who he used to torment and manipulate in the past. 1993.
- DirectorTom McLoughlinStarsChristopher MeloniRobert ForsterMaggie GraceThe story of Martha Moxley, 15 year old girl murdered in Greenwich in the 1970's, her murder going unsolved for 25 years.Explores the impact of Martha Moxley's bludgeoning death on the political/legal system, as Martha's alleged killer was a half-cousin of Ted Kennedy's.
- DirectorHarold BeckerStarsJohn SavageJames WoodsFranklyn SealesAn LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.2 officers were kidnapped, one eventually murdered, in a California onion field by crazed criminal Gregory Powell. This is the true story of the senseless crime.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsMartin SheenSissy SpacekWarren OatesAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.Depicts the killing spree perpetrated by Charles Starkweather and his lover Caril Fugate. South Dakota, late 1950s
- DirectorMoisés KaufmanStarsChristina RicciSteve BuscemiKathleen ChalfantThe true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.About Matthew Shepard's homophobia-motivated slaying in Wyoming.
- DirectorJeffrey W. ByrdStarsJon VoightLouis Gossett Jr.Joe MortonIn 1998, a stunning crime thrust Jasper, Texas into the spotlight. What happened on that summer evening - the death of black hitchhiker James Byrd, Jr. by three white men - became a flash-point for the state of race relations in America.Explores the aftermath of the racially-motivated murder of James Byrd Jr and its effects on one tight-knit Texas town in 1998.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsChristian BaleJohnny DeppChristian StolteThe Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.Chronicles notorious Prohibition figure John Dillinger's rise to power and crimes.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsMichael BiehnAlex McArthurNicholas CampbellAlex is an outwardly normal man who goes on killing and mutilating sprees. When he is finally captured and brought to trial, the district attorney is torn between his own liberal ideals on guilt and the crimes the accused is being tried.Heavily inspired by the acts of serial killer Richard Trenton Chase who terrorized Sacramento during the early 1980s.
- DirectorDavid R. BowenStarsCarl CrewCassidy PhillipsDonna Stewart BowenBased on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.