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Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult 2020
Documentary
This four-part documentary series follows the story of India Oxenberg's perilous journey through the dark and criminal world of the notorious self-help-group-turned-sex-slave-cult NXIVM.
The sides of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
- A young actress drawn into NXIVM
- A self-help group that became a cult
- A mother fighting to get her daughter out
Good for you if
- you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.
- you want to understand how a group took control of its members.
- you're moved by a mother who refuses to give up on her daughter.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch accounts of manipulation and sexual abuse.
- you want the whole cult told through many former members. This one stays close to India and her mother.
About: manipulation · control · recovery
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
Abducted in Plain Sight 2017
Documentary
A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter. Twice.
The sides of Abducted in Plain Sight
- A neighbour who becomes part of the family
- A girl taken from a small Idaho town
- Parents slow to call the police
Good for you if
- you want the family themselves telling what happened.
- you can see the danger coming before the family does.
- you want to understand how a whole family was drawn in.
Bad for you if
- a child's abuse recounted in detail is too much for you.
- you want a case to solve, here the man is named from the start.
About: manipulation · trust · family
Mommy Dead and Dearest 2017
Documentary
Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale life that turned out to be a living nightmare.
The sides of Mommy Dead and Dearest
- A mother and a daughter everyone pitied in Missouri
- A daughter who was never really sick
- A crime planned with an online boyfriend
Good for you if
- you want the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case from the people who lived it.
- you like a story where the victim and the culprit keep trading places.
- you want to understand a mother and daughter bond turned into a prison.
Bad for you if
- you can't take years of child abuse told in detail.
- you need a true story with someone to fully root for.
About: control · abuse · freedom
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
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
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
American Murder: The Family Next Door 2020
Documentary
Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.
The sides of American Murder: The Family Next Door
- A family's own videos and messages
- Police bodycam from the night she vanished
- A husband speaking to news cameras
Good for you if
- you want a case told only through the footage and messages left behind.
- you want to see a family from the inside, a marriage under strain and two small daughters.
- you follow real investigations closely.
Bad for you if
- a case built around a young mother and her two children is more than you can watch.
- you need a documentary that leaves you some hope.
About: grief · domestic violence · denial
Our Father 2022
Documentary
After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
The sides of Our Father
- A DNA test revealing many half siblings
- A fertility doctor in Indianapolis
- Siblings fighting for a new law
Good for you if
- you want the true story of the doctor who used his own sperm on patients.
- you like siblings piecing the truth together one DNA match at a time.
- you like a documentary where each new test makes it worse.
Bad for you if
- you can't take stories of deep betrayal of patients.
- you need to see justice done in the end.
About: betrayal · identity · consent
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 Tinder Swindler 2022
Documentary
Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, an Israeli conman wooed women online then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now, some victims plan for payback.
The sides of The Tinder Swindler
- A man posing as a diamond heir on a dating app
- Private jets paid for with other women's loans
- Three women who decide to fight back
Good for you if
- you like seeing exactly how a con works, message by message.
- you like hearing the women he fooled tell it themselves.
- you like the moment the money runs out and the threats start.
Bad for you if
- you came for a love story. This is about how one was faked.
- you can't watch real people sink into debt and fear.
About: trust · money · betrayal

Bus 174 2002
Documentary
On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
The sides of Bus 174
- A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
- Live television footage of the standoff
- The life of the young man holding the gun
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
- you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
- you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
- you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.
About: poverty · police violence · invisibility
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 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
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
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
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths 2021
Documentary
Suicide, murder... or something else? This docuseries examines chilling truths and theories around the deaths of 11 members of a Delhi family.
The sides of House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
- Eleven members of one Delhi family found dead
- Police, reporters and relatives looking for answers
- Handwritten diaries left in the house
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real case that shook Delhi.
- you like an investigation weighing suicide, murder and belief.
- you want to see how one family's history and shared beliefs shaped what happened.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a documentary about the deaths of a whole family.
- you need some hope or comfort at the end.
About: family · belief · grief · the media
Beware the Slenderman 2016
Documentary
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?
The sides of Beware the Slenderman
- Two 12-year-old girls and an internet legend
- A classmate who survived an attack in the woods in Wisconsin
- Parents trying to understand their daughters
Good for you if
- you want to understand how an online story led to a real crime.
- you like the chill of a creepypasta that crossed into real life.
- you want to hear parents face what their children did.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a story about children, violence and mental illness.
- you need answers that bring some peace.
About: the internet · mental illness · childhood
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
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