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  • Our Mother's Murder (1997)

    1. Our Mother's Murder

    19971h 37mPG-13TV Movie
    6.7 (646)
    Fact-based true crime story about the murder of publishing heiress Anne Scripps Douglas who, in 1989, married a young hunk who eventually killed her.
    DirectorBill NortonStarsHolly Marie CombsRoxanne HartSarah Chalke
  • Josie Davis and Tiera Skovbye in Secrets of My Stepdaughter (2017)

    2. Secrets of My Stepdaughter

    20171h 24mTV-PGTV Movie
    5.5 (1K)
    A mother protects her stepdaughter after the teenager witnesses the murder of her best friend, but is soon forced to come to grips with the terrifying possibility that her stepdaughter could be the real killer.
    DirectorJem GarrardStarsJosie DavisTiera SkovbyeCameron Bancroft
  • Beyond the Edge (2013)

    3. Beyond the Edge

    20131h 30mUnrated59Metascore
    6.8 (2K)
    Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 - an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.
    DirectorLeanne PooleyStarsChad MoffittSonam SherpaJohn Wraight
  • Meru (2015)

    4. Meru

    20151h 30mR77Metascore
    7.7 (20K)
    Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.
    DirectorsJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsConrad AnkerGrace ChinJimmy Chin
  • Salyut-7 (2017)

    5. Salyut-7

    20171h 51m
    7.2 (13K)
    USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
    DirectorKlim ShipenkoStarsVladimir VdovichenkovPavel DerevyankoAleksandr Samoylenko
  • David Faustino in Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)

    6. Boston Strangler: The Untold Story

    20081h 30mRVideo
    3.9 (791)
    Boston 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.
    DirectorMichael FeiferStarsDavid FaustinoAndrew DivoffKostas Sommer
  • Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009)

    7. Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas

    20091h 31mR
    4.0 (792)
    The true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.
    DirectorMichael FeiferStarsAntonio Sabato Jr.John BurkeKelly Curran
  • Tim Durr, James Fields, Roy C. Granada, Doc Heavirland, Kristina Hughes, Sam Taybi, Chaz Taylor, Danielle Franke, Andrew Cappelletti, Ron Crigler, Tim Barry, John Keegan, Robert N. Lee, Justin Beaupre, Wes McAlpine, Bruce Peterson, Scott Racki, Doug Umscheld, Lorri Hustwaite, Jade Seefeldt, Melanie Seefeldt, Bob Borst, Gary Coen, Perry Nelson, Brian Seefeldt, Darlene Coen, Patrick Ford, Todd Erickson, and Nelson Brann in Green River (2008)

    8. Green River

    20081h 30mNot Rated
    3.2 (272)
    Haunted by her sister's mysterious disappearance many years ago at Green River, Charisma Kavanagh (Danielle Franke) returns to silence her ghosts and make peace with the past.
    DirectorSam TaybiStarsKristina HughesDanielle FrankeBruce Peterson
  • Five Daughters (2010)

    9. Five Daughters

    20103 epsTV Mini Series
    7.4 (779)
    Based 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.
    StarsAdam KotzJuliet AubreyNatalie Press
  • This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)

    10. This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

    20002 epsTV Mini Series
    7.5 (474)
    Two part ITV drama based on the long police investigation and hunt for serial killer the Yorkshire Ripper, in late 1970s Northern England. It shows the effect that it had on the health and career of ACC George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
    StarsAlun ArmstrongRichard RidingsJames Laurenson
  • Tim Roth, Samantha Morton, Nico Mirallegro, and Jodie Comer in Rillington Place (2016)

    11. Rillington Place

    20163 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    7.1 (4.6K)
    A three-part drama about serial killer John Christie and the murders at 10 Rillington Place in the 1940s and early 1950s.
    StarsTim RothNico MirallegroSamantha Morton
  • Evan Peters in The Pirates of Somalia (2017)

    12. The Pirates of Somalia

    20171h 56mR54Metascore
    6.7 (12K)
    In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself with the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.
    DirectorBryan BuckleyStarsAl PacinoEvan PetersMelanie Griffith
  • Jennifer Connelly, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, and Miles Teller in Only the Brave (2017)

    13. Only the Brave

    20172h 14mPG-1372Metascore
    7.6 (85K)
    Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.
    DirectorJoseph KosinskiStarsJosh BrolinMiles TellerJeff Bridges
  • Maze (2017)

    14. Maze

    20171h 32mNot Rated
    5.9 (3.7K)
    Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
    DirectorStephen BurkeStarsTom Vaughan-LawlorBarry WardMartin McCann
  • Sverrir Gudnason and Shia LaBeouf in Borg vs. McEnroe (2017)

    15. Borg vs. McEnroe

    20171h 47mR63Metascore
    6.9 (36K)
    The story of the 1980 tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.
    DirectorJanus MetzStarsSverrir GudnasonShia LaBeoufStellan Skarsgård
  • Liam Neeson in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

    16. Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

    20171h 43mPG-1349Metascore
    6.4 (15K)
    The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972.
    DirectorPeter LandesmanStarsLiam NeesonDiane LaneMarton Csokas
  • Polisse (2011)

    17. Polisse

    20112h 7mNot Rated74Metascore
    7.3 (16K)
    A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters into an affair with one of her subjects.
    DirectorMaïwennStarsKarin ViardJoeyStarrMarina Foïs
  • D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003)

    18. D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear

    20031h 25mTV-14TV Movie
    6.0 (1.6K)
    John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a serial killing spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
    DirectorTom McLoughlinStarsCharles S. DuttonJay O. SandersBobby Hosea
  • The Gray Man (2007)

    19. The Gray Man

    20071h 37mR
    5.9 (1.9K)
    Obsessive manhunt to identify and capture a despicable serial killer.
    DirectorScott L. FlynnStarsPatrick BauchauJack ConleyJohn Aylward
  • Roberto Succo (2001)

    20. Roberto Succo

    20012h 4m
    6.6 (1.3K)
    'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly strange dates with Léa, Kurt engages in a number of armed robberies, some successful, some not... The police are perplexed by a series of crimes including disappearances and a murder. They conclude that they are dealing with a madman... After he proposes, Léa breaks up with Kurt. The attempt to find a new girlfriend leads to a shooting by Kurt, now calling himself André. Léa's information identifies Kurt/André as Roberto Succo, psychiatric patient and parental murderer. The police hunt for Roberto covers three countries.
    DirectorCédric KahnStarsStefano CassettiIsild Le BescoPatrick Dell'Isola
  • Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher (2014)

    21. Foxcatcher

    20142h 14mR81Metascore
    7.0 (153K)
    U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.
    DirectorBennett MillerStarsSteve CarellChanning TatumMark Ruffalo
  • The Mechanism (2018)

    22. The Mechanism

    2018–201916 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.0 (37K)
    Dramatic fiction series loosely inspired by an investigation of corruption in Brazil's private and state oil companies and construction companies.
    CreatorJosé PadilhaStarsCaroline AbrasSelton MelloEnrique Diaz
  • Osho in Wild Wild Country (2018)

    23. Wild Wild Country

    20186 epsTV-MATV Mini Series
    8.1 (37K)
    When Osho, the world's most controversial guru, builds an Utopian city deep in the Oregon country, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.
    StarsMa Anand SheelaPhilip ToelkesJane Stork
  • Michael Keaton in The Founder (2016)

    24. The Founder

    20161h 55mPG-1366Metascore
    7.2 (195K)
    The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
    DirectorJohn Lee HancockStarsMichael KeatonNick OffermanJohn Carroll Lynch
  • Murder One (1988)

    25. Murder One

    19881h 22mR
    5.3 (385)
    Freshly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire brood embarks on a crime spree that claims the lives of six people.
    DirectorGraeme CampbellStarsHenry ThomasJames WilderStephen Shellen

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