Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008), Tower (2016), Cocaine Cowboys (2006), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Chopper (2000), Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004), Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003), The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Crime Documentary movies.
Storyline: In 2001, 28-year-old Dr. Andrew Bagby is found dead in a park in Pennsylvania. He had been shot by his ex-girlfriend, who then fled to Canada, where she was able to walk free on bail, pregnant with Andrew's child. Andrew's enraged parents campaign to gain custody of the child and convict their son's killer. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne pairs this story with home movies and interviews with those who knew Andrew, hoping to give his best friend's son an opportunity to discover who his dad was.
Plot Keywords: documentary, true crime, biography, family, murder, justice, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On Aug. 1st, 1966, a sniper rides the elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower and opens fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. When the gunfire ends, the toll includes 16 dead, 36 wounded and a shaken nation.
Plot Keywords: documentary, animation, historical, drama, crime, thriller, biography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.—rakontur
Plot Keywords: documentary, crime, drugs, miami, gangsters, drug trafficking, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together?—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: crime, violence, revenge, thriller, based on true events, serial killer, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a murder sentence in prison. His book, From the Inside, upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: crime, biography, australia, violence, prison, gangster, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, granddaughter of William Randolph Heart, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), who first demanded a prisoner swap for Hearst, then, as it failed, demanded $6 million worth of food for the poor of the Bay Area.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Plot Keywords: documentary, kidnapping, bank robbery, 1970s, terrorism, true crime, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary looks at Aileen Wuornos convicted of killing 7 men while working as a prostitute in Florida. This is actually the second Wuornos documentary made by this group the first being Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992). With her execution now on the horizon Nick Broomfield returns to Florida to complete the story. Her argument has always been that the killings were in self-defense but she eventually pleaded no contest or guilty to most of the murders. Broomfield was able to film several interviews which reveals her state of mind and puts into question her mental competence.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: documentary, true crime, serial killer, biography, death penalty, crime scene, interviews ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this feature-length documentary. THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR is a gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands. Featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Gustaf Skarsgard and Josh Radnor, this film skillfully interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers (a handful of Europeans, Americans and Ecuadoreans who settled idiosyncratically on the Islands between the 1930s and 1960s). As such, it is a parable about the search for paradise -- about what happens when a handful of individualists settle on the same small island seeking their own distinct and sometimes clashing notions of Eden.—Geller/Goldfine Productions
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, true crime, mystery, adventure, biography, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother" Griselda Blanco, who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco's lover, and the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business. Also known as "The Black Widow" for her propensity to permanently dispose of her men when she's done with them, Blanco will stop at nothing to ensure that Charles is faithful to her. Cosby soon learns that he's in way over his head.—Magnet Releasing edited w/ some masala
Plot Keywords: crime, documentary, drugs, gangsters, miami, true story, drug trafficking ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A single mother believes she's found the man of her dreams. But their seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when he's arrested on suspected kidnapping charges and linked to multiple murders. Adamant that he's being framed, he defends himself in America's first nationally televised trial while she struggles to come to terms with the truth.—Netflix
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, biography, drama, true story, serial killer, courtroom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on the run from the law they even make it to sell their music and become famous outlaws.—Antje
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, action, german film, bank robbery, fugitive, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a long spate of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transports, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, heist, based on true events, usa, 1970s, gangsters ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1993. Overachieving college student Jason Moss, fascinated by serial crime, decides to write his criminology class term paper on John Wayne Gacy, who is on death row and scheduled to be executed in six months time. Jason's criminology professor, Mr. Harris, will only allow Jason to write his paper on Gacy if Jason can come up with a fresh angle, as he himself believes the topic of serial killers is already overexposed. After writing Gacy a nondescript letter and receiving a questionnaire from Gacy in return, Jason believes the fresh angle would be truly to get inside Gacy's head, specifically to learn what makes him tick, by presenting himself in subsequent correspondence to Gacy as Gacy's "type", i.e. a vulnerable young man from a dysfunctional family and thus who is possibly at risk. Despite the advice that he needs to watch out for cunning Gacy, Jason is certain he can outsmart the serial criminal at his own game. Things take an unexpected turn for Jason when he starts receiving telephone calls from Gacy, who was able to find out his number. As Jason feels he has to do further field work based on things that Gacy wants him to report back on, Jason may find that he is not as well equipped emotionally to handle the situation than he first believed, potentially leading to serious consequences both for himself and those around him.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, biography, psychological, serial killer, true story, horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The sudden transformation of a lower middle class woman who falls in love with a bank robber and soon becomes one herself.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, drama, thriller, bank robbery, german film, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of thieves band together to carry out what would become one of the most famous bank heists in the history of Argentina.
Plot Keywords: crime, heist, true story, bank robbery, thriller, action, suspense ...
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