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- DirectorDavid JacobsonStarsJeremy RennerBruce DavisonArtel GreatBiopic about notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahmer
- DirectorSvetozar RistovskiStarsWilliam ForsytheJesse MossEmma LahanaA chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Victim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacy - DirectorMichael FeiferStarsCorin NemecKane HodderJen NikolaisenBased on the true story of one of history's most demented serial killers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy
- DirectorJulie DelpyStarsJulie DelpyDaniel BrühlWilliam HurtA 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
- DirectorMario AzzopardiStarsPolly WalkerLuc PicardIsabelle BlaisAs a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roch_Th%C3%A9riault
- DirectorJustin KurzelStarsLucas PittawayDaniel HenshallLouise HarrisBased on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowtown_murders
- DirectorChris GerolmoStarsStephen ReaDonald SutherlandMax von SydowDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/chikatilo.htm
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsJake GyllenhaalRobert Downey Jr.Mark RuffaloBetween 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer
- DirectorJohn McNaughtonStarsMichael RookerTracy ArnoldTom TowlesArriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas
- StarsBrian DennehyMichael RileyMargot Kidder"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacy
- DirectorJohn GrayStarsJeremy DaviesClea DuVallAllison SmithA new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
- DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsCharlize TheronChristina RicciBruce DernBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Carol_Wuornos
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn LeguizamoAdrien BrodyMira SorvinoSpike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz
- DirectorDavid R. BowenStarsCarl CrewCassidy PhillipsDonna Stewart BowenBased on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahmer
- DirectorStephen KayStarsRobert ForsterMichael MicheleMaury ChaykinAfter 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas home in on the serial killer known as BTK.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Lynn_Rader
- DirectorScott L. FlynnStarsPatrick BauchauJack ConleyJohn AylwardObsessive manhunt to identify and capture a despicable serial killer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Howard_%22Albert%22_Fish
- DirectorBenjamin RossStarsHugh O'ConorAntony SherTobias ArnoldThis film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit, he is fascinated by morbid subjects such as poisons and murder. His family environment is intolerable to him and, in particular, his stepmother torments him. He decides to poison those who annoy him, first with antimony and later with thallium. He smugly thinks himself cleverer than all those around him, but nevertheless he is caught and sentenced to 'rehabilitation' at a psychiatric institution. Once there, he undertakes to deceive the new eminent psychiatrist sent there to 'cure' him, thereby securing his release.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Frederick_Young
- DirectorJoel BenderStarsLaura PreponMisha CollinsPatrick BauchauBased on real events, Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla Homolka, kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Homolka
- DirectorMichael Ray RhodesStarsNeil Patrick HarrisGerald McRaneyTom VericaA Seattle household secretly cooperates with police in a case that links a family member to widespread arson.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kenneth_Keller
- DirectorGreg McLeanStarsNathan PhillipsCassandra MagrathKestie MorassiThree backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Milat_(serial_killer)
- DirectorTim MetcalfeStarsJames WoodsRobert Sean LeonardEllen GreeneA prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram
- DirectorJosh TownsendStarsTeresa Arnold-SimmonsRalph CahillChristina CaparoulaDanny Rolling's serial killings of five college students in 1990 forever changes the college-town of Gainseville, FL.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling
- DirectorManish GuptaStarsKay Kay MenonArbaaz KhanRukhsar RehmanIn 1980s Bombay, a serial killer starts targeting homeless street dwellers, whilst a suspended police officer attempts to solve the case.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman
- DirectorLarry ShawStarsJoanna KernsTony DenisonPeter MacNeillAfter being assaulted in her own home by a pervert, a woman finds herself further angered and traumatized when the police can't catch him. Meanwhile, her husband wants to do everything to protect her.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Miguel_Robinson
- DirectorMark VadikStarsTiffany ShepisMax LesserBrooke ParkerAn independent TV reporter and her cameraman interview a man in regards to a serial killer the man knew by the name of Cyrus. The man traces back through the story of the serial killer and why he became the monster he is.The character of Cyrus is loosely based on real life serial killer Fritz Haarmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haarmann - DirectorJud TaylorStarsBrian DennehyWilliam DevaneTracey NeedhamThe take-down of an infamous leader of a small polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, who ordered assassinations of his opponents.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron
- DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsJohnny DeppHeather GrahamIan HolmAfter five ritualistic murders are committed in 1888 London, Inspector Abberline's assignment is to investigate the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Along with a string of mutilated prostitutes, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the government.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
- DirectorByron WernerStarsBrent TaylorShannon LucioJerry KrollIn 1958 Nebraska 19 year old garbageman Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather
- DirectorDavid GriecoStarsMalcolm McDowellMarton CsokasRonald PickupA disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo
- DirectorNick BroomfieldJoan ChurchillStarsAileen WuornosNick BroomfieldTerry Humphreys-SlayNick Broomfield's second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Carol_Wuornos
- DirectorJim Van BebberStarsMarcelo GamesMarc PitmanLeslie OrrA dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
- DirectorRich AmblerStarsBo SvensonScott CordesCathy BarnettBased on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahmer
- DirectorClive SaundersStarsMark HoltonAdam BaldwinTom WaldmanModel citizen, devoted father, loving husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy - a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his family house. Based on a true story.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacy
- DirectorRick BitzelbergerStarsChristopher StapletonRobert SiskoSean ThomasA film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper
- DirectorNick BroomfieldStarsAileen WuornosNick BroomfieldArlene Pralle1992, Florida, USA. Aileen Wuornos is claimed to be the world's first female serial killer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Carol_Wuornos
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsWoody HarrelsonJuliette LewisTom SizemoreTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather
- DirectorKeith WalleyStarsDoug ColeBeverly SoteloStacy CunninghamGruesome true story of murderer Richard Speck who killed eight nursing students in one night in Chicago during the late sixties. The story also follows him to his prison fate and uncovers more of his strange behavoir before his death.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck
- DirectorJohn MurlowskiStarsScott Anthony LeetCole WilliamsDusty SorgThe true story of William Bonin a California serial killer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bonin
- DirectorChris James ThompsonStarsAndrew SwantPamela BassJeffrey JentzenAn experimental documentary that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalized scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer, during the summer of his arrest in 1991.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahmer
- DirectorMartin HowellsChris ShortStarsTom BakerMichael BarrettPaul BeggStep by painstaking step, the diary is analyzed, verified, and questioned; experts pit their knowledge against the information in the diary; gradually and remorselessly the evidence against Maybrick mounts - until his identity is beyond reasonable doubt...was Maybrick Jack The Ripper? A complete history of the chilling JTR murders with graphic photos, sickening details and documented evidence.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
- DirectorJohn BorowskiStarsOto BrezinaJoe ColemanBob DunsworthA documentary about Albert Fish, who was a sadistic and cannibalistic serial killer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
- StarsDavid BerkowitzChip Bolcikhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam
- DirectorMarc MenetScott PrestinStarsJohn Wayne GacySam AmiranteThe authorized, official documentary of the world's most famous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, and the man who dared to defend him.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacy
- DirectorJan WellmannAnil GoelStarsJan WellmannAnil GoelCharles SobhrajCharles Sobhraj. The most prolific felon, serial killer, conman and Don Juan of the modern age.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsGeorge KiseleffJacquelyn AuroraGeorgie DonovanAlong twenty years, the deranged serial-killer Gary Ridgway has killed at least forty-eight prostitutes and dumped their bodies in Green River.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway