Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
סרטו של ריצ'ארד ברוקס ("מחפשת את מר גודבאר") על פי הרומן המצמרר של טרומן קפוטה ("ארוחת בוקר בטיפאני'ס"), שמתאר פרשיית רצח אמיתית בקנזס של שנות החמישים. צמד תמהונים מחסלים משפחה שלמה, בורחים, נתפסים ונשפטים. מחקרו המקיף והמרתק של קפוטה אחר מסתרי הנפש האנושית בעיבוד קולנועי אפל. מדובר בתסריט המבוסס על אותו רומן של טרומן קפוטה שתהליך כתיבתו מתואר בסרט זוכה האוסקר "טרומן קפוטה" (גם בסרט החדש יותר "ידוע לשמצה").
Quasi-documentay on Bonnie and Clyde... Larry Buchanan style!
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
התסריטאי של "אפוקליפסה עכשיו" והבמאי של "קונאן הברברי" ג'ון מיליוס, ביים גרסה שנייה למעלליו של ג'ון דילינג'ר. בשנות השפל הכלכלי בארה"ב, היה דילינג'ר סוג של מיתוס מהלך כשיצא עם כנופייתו למסע של שוד בנקים במערב התיכון. איש FBI אחד שם אותו על הכוונת. זהו סיפורו של הציד. ראש ה-FBI, ג'יי אדגר הובר, התנגד לייצוג ארגונו בסרט והביע מחאה פומבית. לא עזר לו. עם וורן אוטס (שבילי הזעם), ריצ'ארד דרייפוס (מפגשים מהסוג השלישי) והארי דין סטנטון (פריז טקסס)
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.
Zamindar Surya Kishore Chowdhury is a kind-hearted man who loves playing chess and is a fantastic singer. While he cares for his estate and the people, he is careless towards his wife, Indu's feelings. Dr. Bijoy Chakrabarty, who was helped by the zamindar during his student days, lives in his palace and one day, he successfully executes his plot to murder the zamindar while coercing Indu to keep quiet. However, fate takes a different turn and in the cremation grounds, a monk saves the life of the zamindar, who returns to his estate no more as an aristocratic noble but as a monk at heart.
שיר אהבה לעיר ניו-יורק, כמחווה רומנטית של וודי אלן , המתעלמת מחלקיה האפלים של העיר. וודי אלן מתרכז במילייה של האינטלקטואלים הדברנים, אליהם הוא משתייך, כשהוא מנסה להיחלץ ממילייה זה, המדבר על אמנות בלי להיות מסוגל ליצור אותה, באמצעות אהבה תמימה לנערה בת טיפש עשרה, אך בוגרת בהרבה מחבריו האחרים. המוסיקה של ג'ורג' גרשווין מאיירת היטב את מצב רוחו העגמומי-חגיגי של הסרט, בצילומיו היפהפיים של גורדון וויליס, בשחור לבן. יחד עם זאת, הסרט אינו נעדר אירוניה עצמית, במינון האלני המקובל. ניו-יורק של "מנהטן" היא עיר לפוסטרים.
A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton had lived in the farm for many years. On 23 September 1975 their bodies were found with shotgun wounds outside their farmhouse.
A retired police sergeant has an unnatural stranglehold over his wife and daughter. His claustrophobically enclosed world is threatened when his daughter Mila finds herself pregnant and was forced to marry Noel. He attempts to extend his influence over his son-in-law, who resists; there is a confrontation.
A look into the mind of one of the Hillside Strangler murderers, Kenneth Bianchi.
This documentary about serial killers and FBI Behavioral Sciences profilers features interviews with Ed Kemper and Ted Bundy as well as crime victims and law enforcement officials. The film includes some dramatic recreations.
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance.
The autobiographical portrait of Theo Berger, who gained notoriety as the king of burglaries and escapes and spent most of his life in prison. His criminal career includes over 150 crimes committed since the age of 18. Theo Berger was sentenced twice to 15 years and twice to preventive detention. The film was made during his parole, which he received after contracting leukemia. But less than six months after filming was completed, Theo Berger was arrested again. Unprepared for a life in freedom, he was involved in a bank robbery. He was sentenced to a further 12 years in prison.
Jack the Ripper was a prince, a pauper, a mason, a madman... A host of more and more bizarre theories have surrounded the unexplained killings in Whitechapel since they hit the headlines in 1888. This film dispels the grisly fiction, revealing for the first time the true contents of the police and Home Office files on the case, drawing on the expertise of historians and of those who have encountered today's killers - on the street or behind bars.