Posts Tagged ‘true-crime’

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Beatty, Warren | Dunaway, Faye | Pollard, Michael J. | Hackman, Gene | Parsons, Estelle | Pyle, Denver | Taylor, Dub | Evans, Evans | Wilder, Gene | Appling, Harry | Bush, Owen | Cranshaw, Patrick | Goodgion, Garry | Howdy, Clyde | Marker, Russ
Directors: Penn, Arthur
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A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in this take on the legendary crime spree of these archetypal lovers on the run.

Deranged (1974)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Blossom, Roberts | Lee, Cosette | Carlson, Leslie | Warner, Robert | Diamond, Marcia | Smeagle, Brian | Gillen, Arlene | McHeady, Robert | Waldman, Marian | Mather, Jack | Moore, Micki | Orr, Pat
Directors: Gillen, Jeff
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A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.

Karla (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Prepon, Laura | Collins, Misha | Bauchau, Patrick | Jacobs, Emilie | Boyd, Alex | White, Carole Ita | Manners, Fiona | Hoffman, Shawn | Lieberman, Adam | Hayres, Cherilyn | Duffy, William | Lemelle, Tanya | Shawkat, Tony | Swieconek, Kristen | James, Cole
Directors: Bender, Joel
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Based on real events, Paul Bernardo (Collins) and his wife, Karla Homolka (Prepon), kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.

Hillside Strangler, The (2004)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Howell, C. Thomas | Turturro, Nicholas | Lange, Allison | Padilla Sánchez, Marisol | Tisdale, Jennifer | Kent Masters King | Brooks, Aimee | Melnick, Natasha | Whitaker, Damon | Rackley, Brandin | Allegra, Jessica | Witt, Roz | Shaye, Lin | Dickson, Tricia | Rachel, Kylie
Directors: Parello, Chuck
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In the end of the 70’s, the dysfunctional Kenneth Bianchi lives with his mother and is obsessed to join the police force. When his application is refused, his mother sends him to Los Angeles to live with his sadistic cousin Angelo Buono. Kenneth unsuccessfully tries to join LAPD, and Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business with him. They force two girls from Tucson to work for them, but their competitors destroy their business and steals their money. The frustrated Kenneth and Angelo decide to revenge against a prostitute, and Kenneth strangles her, feeling a great pleasure with her death. The two cousins become addicted in death, initially killing prostitutes and then attacking single women, dumping their bodies on the hill.

Ted Bundy (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Burke, Michael Reilly | Bliss, Boti | McCarthy, Julianna | Tisdale, Jennifer | Santos, Michael | Wooster, Anna Lee | Brass, Steffani | Dickson, Tricia | Sisto, Meadow | DaRe, Eric | Schmidt, Melissa | Offner, Deborah | Little, Zarah | West, Alison | Hoffman, Matt
Directors: Bright, Matthew
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Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970’s (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, escape from prison (twice), his final killing spree to his trial, conviction and execution.

Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Watts, Naomi | Cheadle, Don | Thompson, Jack | Henke, Brad William | Searcy, Nick | Wincott, Michael | Williamson, Mykelti | Grace, April | Knight, Lily | Dorrance, Jared | Milton, Jenna | Massa, Mariah | Ryan, Eileen | Greene, Derek
Directors: Mueller, Niels
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother’s old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon’s broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.

Wonderland (2003)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Kilmer, Val | Bosworth, Kate | Kudrow, Lisa | Lucas, Josh | Nelson, Tim Blake | McDermott, Dylan | Applegate, Christina | Bogosian, Eric | Fisher, Carrie | G, Franky | Gainey, M.C. | Garofalo, Janeane | Levine, Ted | Love, Faizon | Gregson Wagner, Natasha
Directors: Cox, James
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John Holmes (Val Kilmer) was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He’s estranged from his wife (Lisa Kudrow), holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress (Kate Bosworth), and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue?