Creepy, "kitchen-sink" style dramatisation of the horrifying true story of mass-murderer John Christie. Attenborough is superbly sinister as the perverted killer who did away with his young lodger, amongst others, leaving her simple-minded husband Timothy Evans to swing for it. Morbidly fascinating. find out more...

Two disturbing but insightful documentaries of Aileen Wuornos, infamous as America's first female serial killer. The first of Broomfield's films deals with Wuornos while on death row awaiting her execution and paints a sympathetic picture of an undeniably damaged human being. The second film looks into the torturous childhood that created the ‘Monster', and together the two documentaries raise some worrying questions about the validity of the American legal system and its close association with find out more...

Dramatisation of the case of serial killers Fred and Rose West, focusing on the way in which they were brought to justice.

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He was 25-years-old, combed his hair like James Dean. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton, she was 15. For a while they lived together in a tree house then in 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people. A tale of two dumb kids going nowhere who achieved infamy in the US Midwest. The original to films like Natural Born Killers and True Romance. Sheen, Spacek and Malick debut in this impressive cult classic Brilliant - watch it! find out more...

Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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Los Angeles, 1928; Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine Collins says goodbye to her son Walter and leaves for work. When she comes home she discovers he has vanished. A fruitless search ensues, and months later, a boy claiming to be her nine-year-old lad is returned. Dazed by the swirl of police, reporters and her conflicting emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight, but in her heart she knows he is not Walter. As Christine pushes the authorities to keep looking, she swi find out more...

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was responsible for the murder of seventeen young men in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Not only did he kill them he then dismembered them and on some occasions even had a nibble. Dahmer is a potentially fascinating if deeply macabre insight into the world of serial killer, unfortunately some dodgy dramatic scripting and directing relieves the film of much of its credibility. find out more...

The inspiration for a number of films, in-particular 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' this is a rather more accurate account of the serial killer Ed Gein, a devoutly religious man living alone on the family farmstead after the death of his mother and choosing as his hobby the fortunately unconventional pastime of murdering young women and wearing their skin. Ed Gein is a disturbing psychological horror, perhaps given more weight by the knowledge that he really existed. find out more...

Single mother Liz (Lily Collins) thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Ted (Zac Efron). But their seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when Ted is arrested on suspected kidnapping charges, then linked to murders in multiple states. Adamant that he's being framed, the showman and former law student defends himself in America's first nationally televised trial while Liz struggles to come to te find out more...

Female journalist Rahimi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.

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