B Movies Blog

Hello, Movie Mavens! Welcome back to the B Movies Blog. Today, we’re popping true crime and true crime-adjacent movies into the ol’ VCR.

I’ve talked about this before, but I watch a lot of true crime shows and documentaries. 

In fact, Elliott and I both recently watched the first episode of Max’s new series, How (Not) To Get Rid Of A Body because someone we knew was, um, involved, but that’s a story for another day. 

Moving on. 

All of the new true crime content being released made me think about movies that either depict real crimes or fictional crimes but still have that true crime feel about them. So, I thought I would make all of you a good ol’ fashioned list of those movies. 

As I said, some of these are fictionalized while others are based on true events. Additionally, not all of these movies are created equal; some are noticeably better than others. 

I would also like to mention that the quality of some of these movies shouldn’t undercut or undermine the brutal crimes they’re based on. 

Lastly, I highly recommend searching for CWs/TWs before watching any of these films. There are a lot of depictions of violence, SA, r*pe, SV, and all like topics throughout this list, so I would definitely proceed with caution on some of these. 

Alrighty, that should do us for introductions and disclaimers. 

Without further ado, here are 13 true crime and true crime-adjacent film recommendations: 

• Rope 
• Se7en 
• Zodiac
• Monster  
• Longlegs 
• Primal Fear 
• Mystic River
• Kiss the Girls
• All Good Things 
• My Friend Dahmer 
• Murder by Numbers 
• Silence of the Lambs