True Crime Movies

[sdreid]

Honeymoon Killers was pretty good.

I see someone mentioned a movie named Swoon about Leopold and Loeb, never saw it but would like to. Really liked Compulsion.

Those are all good and in my top 102.

[Beowulf]

Honeymoon Killers was pretty good.

I see someone mentioned a movie named Swoon about Leopold and Loeb, never saw it but would like to. Really liked Compulsion.

[sdreid]

My favorite true caper movie is Fool's Gold about Brink's-MAT. It has some killing it also though.

[Magpie]

That's just me. I know many like movies about the likes of D.B Cooper and such.

I like "caper" movies of all kinds, fictional and "based on true events".

But usually the "true" caper movies are so fictionalized that however good they are (The Great Train Robbery is one of my favourite movies ever), it's kind of hard to consider them really "true crime" movies.

[sdreid]

Did anyone see the Drew Peterson movie tonight - any good?

[sdreid]

That's just me. I know many like movies about the likes of D.B Cooper and such.

[sdreid]

Of course a true crime move doesn't have to include a murder but all the ones on my list do.

[sdreid]

It's the oldest picture in my top 25.

[sdreid]

Hopefully it will be available in NTSC DVD Region 1 or Blu-ray Region A formats.

[sdreid]

I'll look for that DVD. There some things I don't remember about it.

[Rob Clack]

Hi Stan,

I first saw the film about ten. I don't remember much about it except Peace's escape from the train which was quite exciting. It hasn't been on t.v. since and didn't expect to see it again.

Rob

[sdreid]

Top 25:

25-Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986-U.S.-2:17) Loosely based on murderers Lucas/Toole

24-The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975-U.S.-1:40) Murders of Mr. and Mrs. Borden

23-The Elegant Criminal [L' Elegant Criminel] (1990-Fr.-2:05) Murders by Pierre Lacenaire

22-The Case of Charles Peace (1949-U.K.-1:20) Case of the English killer in black and white

21-Cause Celebre (1987-U.K.-1:49) The Rattenbury murder case

I absolutely agree Rob. Oddly, the first time I saw the film it was playing in the wee morning hours on a religious channel.

[Rob Clack]

Just out on DVD in the UK:



Made in 1949 and it's actually quite good.

Rob

[sdreid]

Superior

To put a rating on Changeling

[sdreid]

I finally got around to seeing Changeling for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It's pretty good. I was surprised by its trueness to the case. When I first heard about it, I thought it was just one of those "inspired by" movies.

The one glaring omission was the culpability of Northcott's mother in the murders. If fact, she was totally left out of the film.