The Best TV Shows & Movies About Serial Killers Based On True Stories

  • 10. Psycho

  • 8.2
      • MPAA
      • R
  • In a desperate attempt to secure a better life for her and her lover Sam, Marion Crane steals money from her employer. She checks into the secluded Bates Motel where she meets its owner, the shy...Read more Norman who hides a terrifying secret.

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  • 9. My Friend Dahmer

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      • MPAA
      • R
  • The story of Jeffrey Dahmer's teenage years as told by his high school friend, John Backderf, from his struggle to fit in school, to his unsettling obsession with how dead animals are "fitted...Read more together", to his first murder.


  • 8. No Man of God

  • 5.2
      • MPAA
      • Unrated
  • Based on a true story; the tale of the unusual relationship that developed between serial killer Ted Bundy and FBI agent Bill Hagmaier, after Bundy had been sentenced to death in 1980 and agreed to...Read more reveal the details of his gruesome crimes to Hagmaier.

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  • 7. Monster

  • 6.1
      • MPAA
      • R
  • The true story of Aileen Wuornos who worked as a prostitute to survive, and meets Selby in a bar and have a relationship with her. She then starts killing the men she goes with, stealing their cars...Read more and money, moving from one city to the other with her lover until she's arrested.


  • 6. Mindhunter

  • 5.8
      • MPAA
      • TV-MA
  • Set in the late 1970s; FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench find themselves getting closer to serial killers than they'd expected as they attempt to understand the way they think in order to hunt...Read more them down.

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  • 5. Memories of Murder

  • 6.8
      • MPAA
      • R
  • Set in the 1980s; two police officers set out to investigate a series of rapes and murders that happened in a small Korean town.


  • 4. O.J.: Made in America

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  • The documentary revolves around the life of American football player O. J. Simpson, his upbringing in Los Angeles, the factors that helped him achieve his dream of playing football, and the great fame...Read more he obtained, up to his high-profile murder trial.


  • 3. Zodiac

  • 6.4
      • MPAA
      • R
  • A serial killer calling himself Zodiac taunts the police by sharing the details of his murders and sending cryptic messages to the press. A police officer, a journalist and a cartoonist form an...Read more unlikely team to hunt him down.



  • 1. Monsters: The Jeffery Dahmer Story

  • 5.5
  • The story of the serial killer Dahmer, through the perspective of the victims. It also depicts the incompetence of the police, who failed to protect the citizens of Wisconsin from extended murders.

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