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Plot Summary:
A re-enactment of the trial of the mistress of the Scarsdale Diet doctor for his March 1980 murder, with excerpts from the transcript of the proceedings serving as the script.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags:
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In the Glitter Palace (1977)
Plot Summary:
The ex-girlfriend of a laywer/detective, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
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Separated by Murder (1994)
Plot Summary:
Inseparable Alabama twin sisters, Betty Gay Wilson and Peggy Joy Lowe, are arrested and tried for conspiring to murder Betty's wealthy husband. These two sisters hire handyman James White to kill Betty's husband. White's love and devotion for Peggy compels him to obey their irrational orders and carry out the murder. White confesses to the murder and the twins are arrested, charged, and tried. Based on the true story of Alabama twins Betty Wilson and Peggy Lowe who were arrested and tried in 1992 for the conspiracy to murder of Betty's husband, a wealthy, well-known ophthalmologist, Jack.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Perfect Mother (1997)
Plot Summary:
Since self-made immigrant Nico Podaras's death, widow Elenie runs his lucrative garage, with an illegal side business, generously using the profits to keep control of their three sons' lives. Simpleton Dan is happy to sire the crucial heir without hesitation to keep unruly, immature wife Charlene in line, but goes to far, so she absconds pregnant. Firstborn John gave up his dream, fishery, to work in the garage. When he marries Kathryn, she starts questioning and resisting Elenie's matriarchal manipulation, but bares her a grandson. The conflict escalates, leaving John torn between loyalties.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: depressing
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Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social
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The Preppie Murder (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family doesn't believe this, so they press the district attorney's office to try him for murder, but he has a good lawyer who plays his defense right down to putting the dead girl on trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
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A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it while the girl looked on helplessly, or was she a willing accomplice?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags:
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Flag in the Mist (1965)
Plot Summary:
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Shipman (2002)
Plot Summary:
James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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In the Blink of an Eye (1996)
Plot Summary:
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Murder in Coweta County (1983)
Plot Summary:
Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime thriller, cult film
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The Versace Murder (1998)
Plot Summary:
This docu-drama focuses on the true story of the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by alleged serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Murder or Memory: A Moment of Truth Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: factual
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Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story (1995)
Plot Summary:
True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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3 Acts of Murder (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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If Looks Could Kill (1996)
Plot Summary:
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy based on the international headline-grabbing story of the now infamous American exchange student accused by Italian authorities of brutally killing her roommate. Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy poses the question of whether Knox (Panettiere), the Seattle honors student accused of murdering her college roommate Meredith Kercher (Amanda Fernando Stevens) in 2007 with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (Paolo Romio) and acquaintance Rudy Guede (Djirbi Kebe), actually committed the crime or was herself a victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, psychological thriller, detective, crime thriller, sincere
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Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)
Plot Summary:
Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, christmas horror, suspense, mind bending, suspenseful, detective, independent film
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Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of the investigation and trial of abortion provider Dr Kermit Gosnell.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, sad
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Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
This film is based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos a prostitute-turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Plot Summary:
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crime drama dircted by Anthony Page.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Crime of the Century (1996)
Plot Summary:
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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SK1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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Happy Face Murders (1999)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric older woman (Ann-Margret) implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives (Marg Helgenberger, Henry Thomas) on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. Childhood memories of her womanizing and abusive father fill Moore with a hidden rage towards all men. Her former boyfriend, first husband and father all died of arsenic poisoning. Now her fiancé, the town's minister, is stricken the same way. Based on the true crime book Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore, the film is buoyed by Montgomery's startling performance, and keeps you on the edge of your seat until its final moments.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Intentions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with attempted murder and brought to trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: spooky
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Death Benefit (1996)
Plot Summary:
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a small insurance policy. The further he goes into the case the more he reveals about the background of the suspect. Keeney finds support from others who also want to find out the truth behind the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film