Top Ten True Crime Movies [in Chronological Order]

If I cannot have the most brilliant destiny, I want the most wretched, not for the purpose of a sterile solitude, but in order to achieve something new with such rare matter.
- Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

Toni (Jean Renoir, 1935)

Landru (Claude Chabrol, 1963)

In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967)

Vengeance is Mine (Shōhei Imamura, 1979)

Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein, 1996)

Bully (Larry Clark, 2001)

Memories of Murder (Bong Joon Ho, 2003)

Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2023)

The Flesh Eaters, "We'll Never Die"