Theme: True Crime

True Crime films refer to works that are depictions of real-life crimes or that are biopics of famous criminals. These usually fall into the Biopics and True Stories category but are so populous they have been spilled over to their own entry.

In genre regard, most of these concern depictions of true-life murders or Serial Killers, ranging from speculations about unsolved cases like Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer to biopics of killers such as Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer and others.

The stories themselves can focus on the killer’s state of Disturbed Psychology or else be Police Procedurals following the process of tracking the killer. The phrase ‘true crime’ should be regarded dubiously as many of these films treat so liberally as to be almost complete fiction, although there are also many instances where this is not the case.