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The Imposter 2012
Documentary
In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
The sides of The Imposter
- A Texas boy missing for three years, found in Spain
- A family welcoming him home
- A man telling the camera how he lied
Good for you if
- you like a story that gets stranger every ten minutes.
- you like an investigation where the questions keep changing.
- you like hearing a con man explain his con himself.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a real missing child and a grieving family.
- you can't stand not knowing who to believe. Each witness tells the story their own way.
About: identity · lies · grief
Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer 2019
Documentary
A twisted criminal's gruesome videos drive a group of amateur online sleuths to launch a risky manhunt that pulls them into a dark underworld.
The sides of Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
- Online amateur sleuths tracking a man who posts animal cruelty videos
- Clues found in the background of video frames
- A hunt that ends with a real murder
Good for you if
- you like an investigation solved from tiny details in the background of a video.
- you want to know how a killer used the internet to be seen.
- you like a three-episode manhunt where the stakes keep rising for the amateur sleuths.
Bad for you if
- you can't take detailed accounts of animals and a man being killed.
- you can't take a true crime where the victim's family is still grieving.
About: the internet · attention · guilt
Unsolved Mysteries 2020
Documentary
Real cases of perplexing disappearances, shocking murders and paranormal encounters fuel this gripping revival of the iconic documentary series.
The sides of Unsolved Mysteries
- Real disappearances and unsolved murders
- UFO sightings and ghost stories
- Families still waiting for answers
Good for you if
- you like a case you can try to solve in an hour.
- you can live with an episode that ends without an answer.
- you like UFO lights in the sky between two murder cases.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real families still grieving a loved one.
- you can't take paranormal episodes next to real crimes.
About: disappearance · the unexplained · grief
American Nightmare 2024
Documentary
After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears, haunting the couple with a new series of tortures.
The sides of American Nightmare
- A woman taken from her home in California in 2015
- A couple the police refused to believe
- Victims treated as suspects
Good for you if
- you want the real people telling their own story in their own words.
- you like a case that keeps changing what you thought you knew.
- you like a true story told with the suspense of a thriller.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear a real kidnapping and assault described by the woman who lived it.
- you need more than interviews and recordings to stay hooked.
About: disbelief · trauma · justice
The Jinx 2015
Documentary
Robert Durst, scion of NY's billionaire real-estate family, has been accused of three murders but has evaded justice for over 30 years. Durst speaks in this true crime series, revealing secrets of a case that has baffled authorities.
The sides of The Jinx
- Robert Durst answering questions on camera
- Three deaths across New York and Texas
- Old letters and a handwriting match
Good for you if
- you like a New York real-estate heir who seems out of reach of the law.
- you like a cold case reopened piece by piece.
- you like watching a man answer questions he could have refused.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through real murders and grieving families.
- you need momentum, and long interviews lose you.
About: wealth · guilt · justice
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer 2021
Documentary
Beneath the sunlit glamour of 1985 L.A. lurks a relentlessly evil serial killer. In this true-crime story, two detectives won't rest until they catch him.
The sides of Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
- Los Angeles in the summer of 1985
- Two detectives on a serial killer's trail
- Witnesses and survivors telling what they saw
Good for you if
- you like a manhunt where the city waits for the next attack.
- you like the feel of 1980s Los Angeles in archive footage.
- you want the detectives who worked the case to tell it.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear survivors recall attacks in their own homes.
- you can't look at crime scene photos.
About: fear · the hunt · justice
The Staircase 2004
Documentary
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. Granted unusual access to Peterson's lawyers, home and immediate family, de Lestrade's cameras capture the defense team as it considers its strategic options. The series is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.
The sides of The Staircase
- A writer charged with his wife's death
- His defense team at work, filmed from inside
- A murder trial in North Carolina
Good for you if
- you want to weigh the evidence in a real death yourself.
- you like a camera inside a real defense team during a murder trial.
- you can live with never knowing what happened on that staircase.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a family grieve a real death.
- you need momentum, and courtroom procedure loses you.
About: justice · doubt · family
What Jennifer Did 2024
Documentary
When Jennifer Pan calls 911 to report that her parents have been shot, she becomes the primary focus of a captivating criminal case.
The sides of What Jennifer Did
- A daughter's 911 call after a home invasion
- Police interrogation footage
- Strict parents in a Toronto suburb
Good for you if
- you like true crime told through the real police footage.
- you like following detectives as a story starts to crack.
- you like a story about the pressure strict parents put on a daughter.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a real murder inside a family.
- you need some comfort at the end of a crime story.
About: family pressure · lies · guilt
Worst Roommate Ever 2022
Documentary
Roommates with malevolent and sometimes violent intentions turn the lives of their unsuspecting victims into real-life nightmares. These terrifying true stories unveil some of the worst cohabitation experiences one could ever imagine.
The sides of Worst Roommate Ever
- Real people who shared a home with someone dangerous
- Victims and families telling their own story
- Detectives and 911 calls
Good for you if
- you want true stories told by the people who lived them.
- you follow true crime and the investigations behind it.
- you like the slow realization that something is wrong at home.
Bad for you if
- you find real murders and grieving families too hard to watch.
- you scare easily and live with a roommate.
About: trust · fear · home
Girl in the Picture 2022
Documentary
A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.
The sides of Girl in the Picture
- A young mother's mysterious death in Oklahoma
- A boy taken from his school
- A woman whose real name nobody knew
Good for you if
- you like a true case where every answer opens a darker question.
- you like revelations that change everything you thought about the story.
- you want to follow the people who spent decades finding out who she was.
Bad for you if
- you can't take child abuse described in detail.
- you need some justice or comfort at the end of a true story.
About: identity · abuse · stolen childhood
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996
Documentary
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
The sides of Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
- Three boys murdered in West Memphis
- Three teenagers put on trial
- A town gripped by fear of satanism
Good for you if
- you want the true story of the West Memphis Three, told as it unfolded.
- you want to see a murder trial from inside the courtroom.
- you like weighing the evidence yourself.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the murder of children and their families' grief on screen.
- two and a half hours is too much for you.
About: justice · fear · prejudice
Cropsey 2010
Documentary
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
The sides of Cropsey
- A Staten Island urban legend
- Children who went missing
- The ruins of an abandoned institution
Good for you if
- you like two filmmakers digging into the disappearances of their childhood.
- you like the chill of a boogeyman story that turns out to be real.
- you like true crime set in the woods and ruins of Staten Island.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film about missing children.
- you need every question answered by the end.
About: urban legends · fear · missing children
Maternal Instinct 2026
Documentary
Police pull over a woman who claims she just gave birth. But the baby — and the blood — aren't hers. Twisted lies unravel in this true-crime documentary.
The sides of Maternal Instinct
- A traffic stop with a newborn baby
- A woman whose story does not add up
- Investigators unpicking a web of lies
Good for you if
- you like watching investigators work out whose baby it really is.
- you want a true case told by the people who lived it.
- you like a story where every answer opens a darker question.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a real crime against a mother and her child.
- you need some hope by the end.
About: motherhood · deception · loss
The Keepers 2017
Documentary
This docuseries examines the decades-old murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik and its suspected link to a priest accused of abuse.
The sides of The Keepers
- The unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik
- Former students of a Baltimore Catholic school
- Two women searching for answers decades later
Good for you if
- you like an old case reopened by people who refuse to drop it.
- you want survivors telling their own story.
- you like the former students who become investigators in their sixties.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear accounts of child sexual abuse.
- you need a case that ends with someone convicted.
About: abuse · cover up · justice
The Dissident 2020
Documentary
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
The sides of The Dissident
- A journalist who walks into a consulate in Istanbul
- His fiancée waiting outside
- Dissidents fighting a state online
Good for you if
- you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.
- you like an investigation that plays like a thriller.
- you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a real murder and the grief of the people left behind.
- you can't hear the details of a killing described.
About: free speech · surveillance · impunity
Lover, Stalker, Killer 2024
Documentary
In this twisting documentary, a mechanic tries online dating for the first time and meets a woman who takes romantic obsession to a deadly extreme.
The sides of Lover, Stalker, Killer
- A Nebraska mechanic trying online dating
- Harassing texts that never stop
- A woman who disappears
Good for you if
- you like a true story that changes direction more than once.
- you like watching an obsession grow message by message.
- you want the account of the people who lived it.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film about a real murder.
- you get too scared by stalking stories, with threats arriving day and night.
About: obsession · online dating · jealousy
The Ripper 2020
Documentary
For five years, from 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.
The sides of The Ripper
- Thirteen women killed in the North of England
- A police hunt that lasted five years
- Women of Yorkshire recalling the fear
Good for you if
- you want the victims and their families heard, not just the killer.
- you like a portrait of Yorkshire in the late 1970s.
- you want to understand why the police took so long to catch him.
Bad for you if
- you can't listen to families talk about murdered mothers and daughters.
- you need a story that leaves you with some hope.
About: violence against women · police failure · fear
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann 2019
Documentary
The documentary takes a detailed look at the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann, who vanished while on holiday with her family.
The sides of The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
- A three year old girl missing from a holiday resort in Portugal
- The police inquiries in Portugal and Britain
- The media storm around her parents
Good for you if
- you want a detailed look at a case you remember from the news.
- you like following every lead in a long investigation.
Bad for you if
- you find a missing child and her family's pain too hard to watch.
- you need an answer, and the case has none yet.
About: loss · the media · hope
A Deadly American Marriage 2025
Documentary
A chilling 911 call. A gruesome scene. What really happened inside a family's quiet suburban home? Murder or self-defense? Told from both sides, this documentary explores Jason Corbett's brutal death.
The sides of A Deadly American Marriage
- The death of Jason Corbett in North Carolina
- A wife and father-in-law claiming self-defense
- Two families, in Ireland and in America
Good for you if
- you follow true crime cases closely.
- you like hearing both sides and judging for yourself.
- you want a case told by two families, one in Ireland and one in America.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch children caught in a family's tragedy.
- you can't stand the details of a brutal death.
About: marriage · justice · family
The Crash 2026
Documentary
A teen slams her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend. What seems like a tragic accident becomes a murder case.
The sides of The Crash
- A car crash that killed two young men
- A teenage driver on trial
- Investigators asking if it was an accident
Good for you if
- you like true crime that follows a case into the courtroom.
- you like a question to answer: accident or murder.
- you want to hear the real parents and investigators tell the case.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the grief of families who lost their sons.
- you need some hope in a story about young lives lost.
About: young love · grief · justice