Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
The Perfect Victim
Adoration
Neshoba
The Canal Street Madam
Guyana: Crime of the Century
Election
Cropsey
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
Rapt
Outside the Law
Lock your doors, turn on the lights, and get ready for some truly terrifying stranger-than-fiction documentaries and narratives on crime.
Complete with complex and nuanced stories on criminal activities, these films, including the new release of CHARLES MANSON SUPERSTAR, are shockingly (mostly) based on chilling true events. Crime does not pay.
Selected Films
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Charles Manson Superstar
In 1969, he became one of history's infamous villains, presented by the media as evil incarnate. CHARLES MANSON SUPERSTAR sets the record straight after years of media disinformation, and features an exclusive interview with Manson which allows him to speak for the first time...Watch Movie
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Guyana: Crime of the Century
Nearly 1,000 people -even tiny babies and children- lay dead and rotting in the morning sun in the South American country of Guyana. All victims of cult leader Jim Jones, who had ordered the mass execution of his followers in the 1978 incident called by many "the crime of the...Watch Movie
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Gangs of Wasseypur
Director/writer/producer Anurag Kashyap's ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives, and spectacular deaths, of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by...Watch Movie
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The House of Suh
One of Chicago's most famous murder cases surrounded sister and brother Catherine and Andrew Suh, first-generation Korean Americans, who conspired against, shot and killed Catherine's former boyfriend. Over a decade later, director Iris Shim revisits the case and opens a...Watch Movie
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The Past is a Foreign Country
In April 1989, a body floats down the Colorado River with a bullet wound in the back of its head. That body is John H. Jenkins, rare book and historical document dealer. He had been at the epicenter of one of the largest document-forgery scandals in Texas history and his death...Watch Movie
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Dear Zachary
On November 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania; the prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. John's, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy...Watch Movie
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S21
Of the 17,000 individuals imprisoned and interrogated during the Khmer Rouge era at the notorious Phnom Penh camp Tuol Seng, only three survive today. Rithy Panh's moving documentary returns with two of them to meet the "other side," their former guards. With the tables turned, the two survivors...Watch Movie
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The Perfect Victim
For over thirty years, three women have languished in Missouri State prison under unjust sentences for killing their abusive husbands. Denied the opportunity to enter the abuse into evidence, each of the women represents a system broken by outdated and media-sensationalized...Watch Movie
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Unraveled
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations...Watch Movie
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Neshoba
In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in the small Mississippi county of Neshoba, the infamous “Mississippi Burning” murders. The young men, two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi, were in the Deep South helping to register African-American voters...Watch Movie
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The Boss
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film (the final part of his Milieu Trilogy) is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi....Watch Movie
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Rapt
One morning, the rich and powerful industrialist Stanislas Graff is kidnapped outside his home by a commando group. Completely cut off from the rest of the world and only aware of what the kidnappers tell him, Stanislas cannot understand why his friends and family are taking their time to pay the...Watch Movie
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The Canal Street Madam
Until an FBI bust upended her life, Jeanette Maier was a successful New Orleans madam. Her discreet clientele included a number of powerful, high-ranking politicians. The ensuing very public trial, both in the courtroom and in the media, focused salaciously on the fact that...Watch Movie
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À tout de suite
A stylish thriller, A TOUT DE SUITE is the highly anticipated film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot. Based on actual events, it tells the story of free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank robber and joins him on the run, a dizzying cross-continent...Watch Movie
