20 movies like Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, ordered by similarity : The Eyes of Tammy Faye(2000), The Farm: Angola, USA(1998), Love Crimes of Kabul(2011), Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer(2003), Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart(2014), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills(1996), The Thin Blue Line(1988), McLibel(2005), For Sama(2019), Mugabe and the White African(2009), West of Memphis(2012), Scottsboro: An American Tragedy(2000) ...
Documentary
1992
87 Minutes
serial killer attorney prostitute christian inmate husband shocking emotional fascinating sad court prison farm truck stop living room van aileen wuornos murder case prostitution trial
Nick Broomfield explores the media circus surrounding the case of America's first textbook female serial killer.
Documentary
UK|USA
2000
79 Minutes
televangelist preacher husband filmmaker fascinating outlandish north carolina california christianity television personalities fame evangelism scandal fall wretched excess 1990s
A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker. Traces their rise: her teen marriage to ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1998
93 Minutes
Jonathan Stack
prisoner warden parole officer fascinating shocking prison louisiana imprisonment justice race relations human nature transformation quest 1990s
Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
Documentary
USA
2011
72 Minutes
woman prisoner virgin divorcée guard afghan shocking engaging powerful fascinating kabul, afghanistan women's prison courtroom islam women's rights prison judicial system cultural differences oppression discovery
LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL is an intimate portrait of three young Afghani women accused of committing "moral crimes" such as premarital sex and running away from home. As we follow them from ... See full summary »
Documentary
UK|USA
2003
89 Minutes
serial killer documentarian judge lawyer spokesman friend dark disturbing florida prison courtroom murder prostitution execution mental illness discovery fall wretched excess 2000s
Nick Broomfield's second documentary about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, focusing on her mental state on death row.
Documentary
USA
2014
98 Minutes
Nicole Kidman Joaquin Phoenix Helen Hunt Matt Dillon Joyce Maynard Stanley M. Brooks Joyce Chopra
murderer murder victim journalist attorney convict interviewee fascinating engaging chilling disturbing dark intense america murder murder trial media circus justice media manipulation documentaries discovery
A small-town murder in New England became one of the highest-profile cases of the twentieth century. As the first fully televised court case, the Pamela Smart trial rattled the ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1996
150 Minutes
Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky Jessie Misskelly Sr. Jason Baldwin Damien Wayne Echols Christopher Byers Michael Moore Steven Branch Pam Echols Domini Teer
teen boy adult friend father girlfriend judge bleak disheartening tennessee court murder trial satanism false accusations imprisonment mystery discovery 1990s
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Documentary
USA
1988
106 Minutes
drifter murderer petty criminal judge psychiatrist cop dark disturbing shocking powerful texas prison courtroom injustice murder corruption death row mystery underdog quest
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
Documentary
UK
2005
84 Minutes
Dave Morris Bruce Alexander T. Colin Campbell Oliver Ford Davies Richard Hope
environmentalist lawyer fiery fascinating england courtroom london mclibel lawsuit big business environmental consciousness public relations censorship rivalry quest wretched excess underdog 1990s
McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
War, Documentary
UK|Syria|USA
2019
95 Minutes
Waad Al-Khateab Waad Al-Kateab
mother husband daughter survivor documentarian doctor inspiring engaging fascinating shocking sad emotional syria syrian-israeli relations war survival uprising casualties of war documentary filmmaking discovery
FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
Documentary
UK
2009
90 Minutes
Andrew Thompson Angela Campbell Laura Freeth
president robert mugabe government official zimbabwean farmer judge engaging gripping inspiring rousing chegutu, zimbabwe farm courtroom farming michael campbell human rights property rights racism land reform quest sacrifice underdog
An intimate and moving account of one family's extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.
Documentary, Crime, Drama
New Zealand|USA
2012
150 Minutes
Michael Baden Jason Baldwin John Mark Byers Lorri Davis Johnny Depp
filmmaker convict friend suspect family member bleak shocking arkansas rural community prison wrongful conviction murder prison life justice west memphis three discovery underdog 2010s
An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
Documentary
USA
2000
90 Minutes
Daniel Anker
african-american teenager white person prosecutor accuser defense attorney disturbing powerful alabama tennessee courtroom train small town scottsboro boys false accusations rape lynching corruption trial wretched excess underdog
The history of the "Scottsboro Boys," a group of African American men who were victims of a racist miscarriage of justice that became a national controversy.
Documentary, Crime, Drama, History
USA
2008
101 Minutes
Nelson Andreu Raul Diaz Bob Palumbo Al Singleton
drug dealer son convict woman drug addict police officer gripping fascinating dark oakland, calif. prison miami ghetto drug trade crime ring partnership investigation griselda blanco charles cosby temptation
Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother" Griselda ... See full summary »
Documentary
2019
93 Minutes
Anita Alvarez Dean Angelo Alma Benitez Pat Camden Charlene Carruthers Kina Collins
teenager murder victim murderer police captain police officer investigator lawyer judge journalist bleak dark emotional gripping gritty melancholy powerful sad solemn chicago murder
A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued.
Documentary
USA
1998
93 Minutes
Robert De Niro Lenny Bruce
robert de niro comedian friend mother drug addict tv personality rousing amusing fascinating disheartening new york city television studio nightclub strip club comedy club obscenity court battles stand-up comedy controversy lenny bruce
Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed ... See full summary »
Documentary
2019
90 Minutes
bishop leader police detective journalist investigator bleak disturbing emotional fascinating patriotic thrilling church guatemala home murder civil war law murder case murder investigation murder accusation
An investigation into the truth behind the murder of Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi, who was killed in 1998 just days after trying to hold the country's military accountable for the atrocities committed during its civil war.
Documentary
2017
89 Minutes
Geeta Gandbhir Michelle Brettin Rachel Dissell Mariska Hargitay Helena Lazaro Kym Worthy Cy Vance
expert victim sexual predator sex offender police detective investigator bleak emotional frightening gripping disheartening raw sad shocking united states sexual abuse assault investigation criminal justice system discovery
An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.
Documentary, Drama
USA
1994
174 Minutes
William Gates Arthur Agee Sheila Agee Isiah Thomas Bill Gleason
basketball player teenager mother father coach teacher uplifting powerful gutsy emotional chicago westchester, ill. basketball court family home basketball ambition high school racism class distinctions growing up
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Documentary, Biography
USA
2003
107 Minutes
David Friedman Jesse Friedman
father son brother mother victim police officer creepy emotional family home great neck, n.y. suburbia prison child molestation family wretched excess fall mystery 2000s
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
Documentary
USA
2004
99 Minutes
willie nelson emmylou harris steve earle kris kristofferson singer songwriter brooding passionate austin, texas stage townes van zandt country music show business alcoholism mental illness performance wretched excess transformation underdog 1990s
Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.