True Crime: Serial Killer and Spree Killer Movies
No documentaries, no docudrama's, only movies. Based on true crime, so no fictional killers.
I have tried to leave out movies which are IMO tóó loosely based upon the real events, though sometimes it is a thin line. 'Inspired by' is not enough to make this list. I have also left out movies about hitmen and war criminals.
I must have missed quite a few movies on this list, so if you have any suggestions to add, please tell me.
I have seen quite a lot of these but not all. Some are great, some are utter crap.
Alphabetical order.
I have tried to leave out movies which are IMO tóó loosely based upon the real events, though sometimes it is a thin line. 'Inspired by' is not enough to make this list. I have also left out movies about hitmen and war criminals.
I must have missed quite a few movies on this list, so if you have any suggestions to add, please tell me.
I have seen quite a lot of these but not all. Some are great, some are utter crap.
Alphabetical order.
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- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsRichard AttenboroughJudy GeesonJohn HurtWhat happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.Based on John Reginald Christie
- DirectorHarry BradbeerStarsMartin ClunesKeeley HawesRichard HopeJohn George Haigh, the notorious "acid bath murderer" in 1940s England, becomes the subject of this dramatization.Based on John George Haigh
- DirectorGerald KarglStarsErwin LederRobert Hunger-BühlerSilvia RyderA troubled man gets released from prison and starts taking out his sadistic fantasies on an unsuspecting family living in a secluded house.Based on Werner Kniesek
- StarsEmily WatsonDominic WestRobert GlenisterDramatisation of the case of serial killers Fred and Rose West, focusing on the way in which they were brought to justice.Based on Fred and Rose West
- StarsJason RobardsJames Earl JonesRip TornThe city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over whether he is the actual killer or a scapegoat offered up by the city's mostly black leadership. Based on actual events.Based on the Atlanta Child Murders.
- 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.Based on Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsAnna FrielKarel RodenVincent ReganWith an unquenchable thirst for blood, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers in history.Based on Countess Elizabeth Báthory
- Based on Belle Sorenson Gunness
- DirectorPaul SouthWilliam TaftStarsSeth CorreaSteve WilliamsMarc SalemeBob Berdella who originated from Ohio, moved to Kansas City in the 1960s to enroll at the KC Art Institute. Shortly after his move to Kansas City, Berdella purchased a house on 4315 Charlotte Ave. This house would serve as the grounds for some of the most bizarre acts of torture and mutilation ever performed. Bob Berdella was very active in his local community. He was in charge of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Coalition for many years, was a cook for many restaurants in KC, even worked with the local news stations in organizing numerous charities and auctions. Berdella was also notable for his work mentoring troubled youths, and was even assigned as the probation officer to many of these teens. In the end Bob was known for his shop, at the Westport Flea Market, "Bob's Bazaar Bizarre". It was here at this shop that many people met and interacted with Berdella. His shop was setup like any normal flea market, but his taste of goods were different than the rest of the merchants at Westport Flea Market. Bob had real human skulls, witchcraft and occult books, jewelry, knives and swords, and practically anything that would be classified as bizarre. Berdella, after his arrest, was known for keeping precise notes on his torture and killing methods. Investigators found these notebooks under his mattress with over 1,000 Polaroid pictures taken of his victims at various stages of their torture. The evidence was overwhelming and Bob eventually admitted to 6 murders between the years of 1984-1988.Based on Robert Berdella
- DirectorMatthew CarnahanStarsScott BairstowEric MabiusTara SubkoffAll-American Kyle is the newest initiate of the Black Circle Boys, an underworld society of gothic groupies whose primary interests are creating mayhem and studying the Occult. By the time he realizes he's in over his head, it may be too late!Based on Ricky Kasso
- DirectorIan MerrickStarsDonald SumpterDebbie FarringtonMarjorie YatesA gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.Based on Donald Neilson
- DirectorChristopher LeitchStarsKelly McGillisDavid LipperFrancis X. McCarthyTrue story of a charming, popular American who managed to kill his mother and 3 wives before anyone even suspected him.Based on Lowell Amos
- DirectorAlan MetzgerStarsElizabeth MontgomeryDavid ClennonJohn M. JacksonA woman marries her boyfriend on his deathbed for his money so she can move on to the next guy. When he turns up mysteriously ill the police step in and investigate the strange circumstances.Based on Blanche Taylor Moore
- DirectorMark G. GilhuisStarsRaymond ElmendorfPamela BakerNavarre PerryHarry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines of his mental illness and reality become extremely blurred as some of his strangest events are indeed witnessed by others. As Harry becomes more frustrated by not being able to distinguish fact from delusion he turns to violence.Based on James Huberty
- 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.Based on Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsTony CurtisHenry FondaGeorge KennedyA series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.Based on Albert DeSalvo
- DirectorKeith WalleyStarsMauro LanniniJason DavidCamille LannanAlbert DeSalvo (Mauro Lannini) embarks on a murderous crime spree.Based on Albert deSalvo
- DirectorMichael FeiferStarsDavid FaustinoAndrew DivoffKostas SommerBoston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.Based on Albert deSalvo
- DirectorHarry BradbeerStarsMartin KempRichard GriffithsCharlotte RandleDramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.Based on George Joseph Smith
- DirectorMichael FeiferStarsKane HodderAmy LyndonOdessa RaeDennis L. Rader systematically tortured and killed innocent victims for over two decades, evading the police for over 30 years while living a seemingly normal life as a husband, father, security officer and church president.Based on Dennis Rader
- DirectorMichael FeiferStarsCorin NemecKane HodderJen NikolaisenBased on the true story of one of history's most demented serial killers.Based on Ted Bundy
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsPaul LutyRoy MacreadyDerren NesbittTwo men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.Based on William Burke and William Hare
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsBill BaileyTom WilkinsonMichael SmileyA black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.Based on William Burke and William Hare
- DirectorBennett MillerStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanClifton Collins Jr.Catherine KeenerIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.Based on the Clutter Family Murders by Rickard Hickock and Perry Smith
- StarsTom CavanaghCurrie GrahamAmy DavidsonA pair of girls seeking adventure beyond their western Washington trailer park encounter the area's most ruthless serial killer. The series is based on Sheriff David Reichert's book, "Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer".Based on Gary Ridgway
- DirectorSteve GethersStarsRichard CrennaDennis FarinaBilly ZaneThe true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killin' cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama. The movie concentrates on the killers story, as well as on the life of Officer Bob Grogan, who investigated their case. Look for the real Bob Grogan as the Washington cop who arrests Kenneth Bianchi!Based on Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono
- StarsBrian DennehyMichael RileyMargot Kidder"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.Based on John Wayne Gacy
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsAngelina JolieColm FeoreAmy RyanAfter Christine's son goes missing, she reaches out to the LAPD to find him. But when they try to pass off an impostor as her son to quieten public protests, she refuses to accept him or give up hope.Based on the dissapearance of Walter Collins, the imposter Arthur Hutchins and serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott
- DirectorMichael FeiferStarsCorin NemecAmy LyndonColey FeiferA film based on the notorious mass killer Richard Speck, who systematically tortured, raped and murdered a group of student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.Based on Richard Speck
- DirectorChris GerolmoStarsStephen ReaDonald SutherlandMax von SydowDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.Based on Andrei Chicatilo
- DirectorFhiona-LouiseStarsBob FlagMartin Byrne-QuinnGeoffrey GreenhillFictionalized account based on the actions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.Based on Dennis Nilsen
- DirectorMark BlairStarsRobert A. BurnsDennis HillBerkley GarrettAfter being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.Based on Henry Lee Lucas
- DirectorJulie DelpyStarsJulie DelpyDaniel BrühlWilliam HurtA 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.Based on Countess Elizabeth Báthory
- DirectorDavid JacobsonStarsJeremy RennerBruce DavisonArtel GreatBiopic about notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present.Based on Jeffrey Dahmer
- DirectorAnnie BassonStarsSusan CoetzerGraham ArmitageCharlotte ButlerBased on Daisy de melker
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsKen ForeeUlli LommelChristopher KriesaA mysterious shooter randomly kills innocent citizens in public; one after the other in broad daylight. All murders happen not far from the White House; not far from the President.Based on John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo
- DirectorTom McLoughlinStarsCharles S. DuttonJay O. SandersBobby HoseaJohn Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a serial killing spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.Based on John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo
- DirectorAdam DubovStarsBruce RamsayBalthazar GettyMax PerlichIn 1965, Rudy, a Midwestern high-school kid, moves to Albuquerque; lonely and friendless, he's attracted to Kit, slightly older, with a car, his own apartment, and spending money. Kit loves Elvis and loves the ladies; plus, he's a complete phony: his tan is fake, he wears lifts, he lies to girls, and he pretends to care about Rudy. Kit also shares a dark secret with two other devoted followers, Jimmy and Martha. He meets his match in Kirsten, a spoiled rich girl who gives as good as she gets. When she and a younger cousin disappear, Rudy must choose between loneliness and the law.Based on Charles Schmid
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsVeronica HamelSusan RuttanStephen TobolowskyA pediatrician becomes trapped in a web of betrayal and guilt when her best friend, a nurse, seems to be a baby-killer.Based on Genene Anne Jones
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsKurt RussellRichard YniguezNed BeattyThe infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again.Based on Charles Whitman
- DirectorSvetozar RistovskiStarsWilliam ForsytheJesse MossEmma LahanaA chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.Based on John Wayne Gayce
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsJames CoburnBill HunterReb BrownBased on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance. The real person who did this was Eddie Leonski.Based on Edward Joseph Leonski
- StarsMark HarmonFrederic ForrestGeorge GrizzardThe story of serial killer, Ted Bundy.Based on Ted Bundy
- DirectorJeff GillenAlan OrmsbyStarsRoberts BlossomCosette LeeLeslie CarlsonA deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps, among others, as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.Based on Ed Gein
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsRicky SchroderFreddie Prinze Jr.Katie WrightA former high school student, Jason Copeland, returns to his school to take his revenge on the teachers for failing him out of school.Based on Eric Houston
- DirectorChristian de ChalongeStarsMichel SerraultPierre RomansBérangère BonvoisinBased on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France for Spain. Instead, he drugged them and burnt their bodies in his home, while stealing their valuables. After the Liberation of France, he was condemned to death.Based on Marcel Petiot
- DirectorMichael FeiferStarsAntonio Sabato Jr.John BurkeKelly CurranThe true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.Based on Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole
- DirectorMichael FeiferStarsKane HodderAdrienne FrantzMichael BerrymanThe twisted and murderous appetites of the notorious Ed Gein, whose depredations in his small town of Plainfield come as quite a shock to his neighbors, especially Deputy Mason, whose mother Vera and girlfriend Erica have gone missing.Based on Ed Gein
- DirectorKai S. PieckStarsTobias SchenkeSebastian UrzendowskyUlrike BliefertThe true-life story of 19-year-old Jürgen Bartsch, a German pedophile serial killer who murdered four boys, based on his correspondence, over the course of eight years, with German American author Paul Moor.Based on Jürgen Bartsch
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsElias McConnellAlex FrostEric DeulenSeveral ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.Based on the Columbine High School massacre, by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris
- DirectorDavid GriecoStarsMalcolm McDowellMarton CsokasRonald PickupA disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.Based on Andrei Chicatilo
- StarsAdam KotzJuliet AubreyNatalie PressBased on the personal testimonies of many of those most closely involved, "Five Daughters" recounts the final weeks in the lives of the five young women murdered in Ipswich in 2006.Based on Steven Gerald James Wright, aka the Suffolk Strangler, the Ipswich murders
- DirectorJohn MurlowskiStarsScott Anthony LeetCole WilliamsDusty SorgThe true story of William Bonin a California serial killer.Based on William Bonin
- DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsJohnny DeppHeather GrahamIan HolmAfter five ritualistic murders are committed in 1888 London, Inspector Abberline's assignment is to investigate the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Along with a string of mutilated prostitutes, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the government.Based on Jack the Ripper
- DirectorScott WalkerStarsNicolas CageVanessa HudgensJohn CusackAn Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.Based on Robert Hansen
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsKen OgataRentarô MikuniChôchô MiyakoChronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.Based on Nishiguchi Akira
- DirectorClive SaundersStarsMark HoltonAdam BaldwinTom WaldmanModel citizen, devoted father, loving husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy - a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his family house. Based on a true story.Based on John Wayne Gacy
- DirectorJosh TownsendStarsTeresa Arnold-SimmonsRalph CahillChristina CaparoulaDanny Rolling's serial killings of five college students in 1990 forever changes the college-town of Gainseville, FL.Based on Danny Rolling
- DirectorDanny LeeBilly Hin-Shing TangStarsDanny LeeSimon YamKent ChengAn abnormal taxi driver lusts for blood every rainy night, and several young women are killed as a result.Based on Lam Kor-Wan
- DirectorScott L. FlynnStarsPatrick BauchauJack ConleyJohn AylwardObsessive manhunt to identify and capture a despicable serial killer.Based on Albert Fish
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsGeorge KiseleffJacquelyn AuroraGeorgie DonovanAlong twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River.Based on Gary Ridgway
- StarsGeorge DiCenzoSteve RailsbackNancy WolfeThe investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.Based on the Manson Family
- DirectorJohn GrayStarsJeremy DaviesClea DuVallAllison SmithA new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.Based on the Manson Family
- DirectorFrank HowardStarsBrian KlinknettErica BigelowPaula ShannonA mixture of documentary footage and re-enactment scenes, some filmed on the action locations, of the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders committed by the gang known as the Manson Family.Based on the Manson Family
- 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.Based on Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole
- DirectorChuck ParelloStarsC. Thomas HowellNicholas TurturroAllison LangeKenneth is obsessed with the police, he moves to LA with his cousin, Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business. Frustrated decide on revenge, feeling a great pleasure with her death. The two cousins become addicted to death.Based on Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono
- DirectorDan SvátekStarsVáclav JirácekIvan FranekMarián GeisbergHynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.Based on Petr Zelenka
- DirectorLeonard KastleDonald VolkmanStarsShirley StolerTony Lo BiancoMary Jane HigbyAn obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.Based on Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
- DirectorKuo-Jen ChungStarsChiang HuangKo-Ai ChiangKam-Cheong ChengA serial killer taxi driver stalks the women of Hong Kong.Based on Lam Kor-wan
- DirectorStephen KayStarsRobert ForsterMichael MicheleMaury ChaykinAfter 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas home in on the serial killer known as BTK.Based on Dennis Rader
- DirectorAllan KroekerStarsJohn CorbettSara CanningTygh RunyanThe true story of the year-long manhunt for the killer who raped and murdered his way up and down the I-5 corridor through California, Washington, and Oregon for over a year in 1981, leaving 44 victims in his wake.Based on Randall Woodfield
- 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.Based on the Clutter Family murders by Richard Hickock and Perry Smith
- StarsAnthony EdwardsEric RobertsSam NeillBased on Truman Capote's true-crime classic and nominated for two Primetime Emmys, "In Cold Blood" follows a pair of ex-cons (Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts) who brutally murdered a respected Midwestern rancher and his family.Based on the Clutter Family murders by Richard Hickock and Perry Smith
- DirectorDouglas McGrathStarsToby JonesDaniel CraigSandra BullockWhile researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.Based on the Clutter Family murders by Richard Hickock and Perry Smith
- DirectorChuck ParelloStarsSteve RailsbackCarrie SnodgressCarol MansellThe story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.Based on Ed Gein
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsNicholas LeaReece DinsdaleLochlyn MunroThis gripping, true-life drama tells the story of the bungled and obstructed manhunt for Canada's most notorious serial killer.Based on Clifford Olson
- DirectorRobert S. BakerMonty BermanStarsLee PattersonEddie ByrneBetty McDowallA serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.Based on Jack the Ripper
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsKlaus KinskiJosephine ChaplinHerbert FuxA serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.Based on Jack the Ripper
- StarsMichael CaineArmand AssanteRay McAnallyA Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.Based on Jack the Ripper
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsYekaterina GolubevaRichard CourcetVincent DupontA serial killer terrorizes Paris at night, but that doesn't stop Daïga and Théo from meeting up, and falling in love.Based on Thierry Paulin
- DirectorBobby RothStarsRobert BlakeBeverly D'AngeloDavid CarusoThe story of the notorious American mass murderer who killed his entire immediate family to hide his personal failures and hid for decades before he was finally arrested.Based on John Emil List
- DirectorJoel BenderStarsLaura PreponMisha CollinsPatrick BauchauBased on real events, Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla Homolka, kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.Based on Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
- DirectorTim MetcalfeStarsJames WoodsRobert Sean LeonardEllen GreeneA prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.Based on Carl Panzram
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsSteve OlsonPia PownallHollie OvertonHe called himself the Angel of Death. But when the police discovered that he was involved with over 40 deaths, he name soon became Killer Nurse. In the beginning it was his story against theirs. Soon he gave up his version of the events and admitted to killing 43 patients in his care at the St. Mary's Hospital.Based on Charles Cullen
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsMichèle MorganDanielle DarrieuxHildegard KnefFollows a family man who meets women through lonely-hearts ads.Based on Henri Désiré Landru
- DirectorAlan DossorStarsKeith AllenDan ArmourJayne AshbourneDr. William Palmer moves back to his childhood town with a new wife. Soon, people he owes money to start dying in mysterious ways, and yet no one seems to notice.Based on William Palmer
- DirectorJohn RoeckerStarsNick 13Billie Joe ArmstrongTim ArmstrongIn a distant future, a cult forms around the Manson Family, when Charles Manson is mistaken for the messiah. Meanwhile, in 1969, Manson convinces his followers to murder Sharon Tate.Based on the Manson Family.
This movie is the exception on the rule of this list. Yes, it is about the Manson Family, but it does take a whole different direction.... - DirectorTodd RobinsonStarsJohn TravoltaSalma HayekJared LetoBased on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals.Based on Ray Fernandez and Martha Beck
- DirectorTom HooperStarsLee BoardmanJim BroadbentTam Dean BurnA portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.Based on Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.Based on Peter Kurten
- DirectorBruce Seth GreenStarsRichard JordanA MartinezJulie CarmenBased on the true story of Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down.Based on Richard Ramirez
- DirectorJim Van BebberStarsMarcelo GamesMarc PitmanLeslie OrrA dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.Based on the Manson Family
- DirectorJeff MeyersStarsEric MayerAlicia BartaPaul Floding"Recommended." - Library Journal." ... an intense one-on-one encounter with a series of five serial murderers. The video provided an in-your-face quality I would have missed from the back row of a theater. I was spellbound." - Wall Street Journal Spend an intimate evening with the twentieth century's most notorious serial killers, including Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker"), and Aileen Wuornos (America's First Female Serial Killer"). "Mass Murder is deliciously dark fringe theater at its best.... Fine acting and intense monologue bring unmistakable electricity to the stage and the killers portrayed ... Eric Mayer effortlessly held me in his spell, as he captured Ted Bundy's boyish charm, attractive exterior and the emptiness, frustration, and hatred, which simmered beneath his outer surface ... This exceptional film will leave you with an object lesson of how little you need for terror beyond a darkened stage and a serial killer's presence."Based on Ted Bundy, Genene Jones, Aileen Wuornos, Andrei Chicatilo and Richard Ramirez.
- DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsCharlize TheronChristina RicciBruce DernBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.Based on Aileen Wuornos
- DirectorCesare FerrarioStarsLeonard MannBettina GiovanniniGabriele TintiA string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the identity of the killer, aided by his beautiful girlfriend. Loosely based on a true story.Based on the Monster of Florence
- StarsRandy QuaidRoberts BlossomTom BowerA wanna-be tough guy and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.Based on Charles Raymond Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate
- DirectorJim Van BebberStarsJim Van BebberTerek PuckettAlydra KellyA group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.Based on Ricky Kasso
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsClaus HolmMario AdorfHannes MessemerA serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.Based on Brune Luebke
- DirectorChris FisherStarsBret RobertsJoseph McKelheerRoxanne DayRichard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, who terrorized people in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and the police had no clue with him.Based on Richard Ramirez
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsAdolph CortezElissa DowlingVictoria UllmannInspired by the true story of the most publicized and deranged serial killer known to everyone as "The Night Stalker."Based on Richard Ramirez