List of films based on crime books

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This is a list of films that are based on books about crime. Films are listed according to the decade in which the depicted crime occurred, rather than by the film's date of release.

This page includes "crimes" where the "criminal" was later exonerated. This page includes suicides or other deaths which have been deemed to be suspicious by some and have therefore become the subject of conspiracy theories.

For further crimes that arise as a consequence of war, see .

12th century[]

England[]

Frequently filmed: A Morbid Taste for Bones and sequels[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 One Corpse Too Many * 1994 ? UK One Corpse Too Many "Ellis Peters" 1979 Novel
  • * TV movie

Japan[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Rashomon
羅生門		 1950 Akira Kurosawa Japan "In a Grove" Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 1922 Story

14th century[]

Italy[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud Germany, France, Italy The Name of the Rose
Il nome della rosa		 Umberto Eco 1980 Novel

16th century[]

England[]

Anne Boleyn adultery and treason[]

1536

Thomas More case[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann UK A Man For All Seasons Robert Bolt 1960 Play

Scotland[]

Sawney Bean legend[]

17th century[]

United States[]

Frequently filmed: The Scarlet Letter[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
n The Scarlet Letter 1926 Victor Sjöström USA The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 Novel

Salem witch trials[]

1692–1693

Frequently filmed: The Crucible[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Les Sorcières de Salem ♠ 1957 Raymond Rouleau France &
East Germany		 The Crucible [1][2] Arthur Miller 1953 Play
2 The Crucible 1996 Nicholas Hytner USA The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 Play
  • ♠ The Witches of Salem has an adapted screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre.[3]

18th century[]

France[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Das Parfum – Die Geschichte eines Mörders		 2006 Tom Tykwer Germany, Spain, France Perfume [4]
Das Parfum		 Patrick Süskind 1985 Novel

Frequently filmed: Le Bossu[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Le Bossu aka On Guard 1997 Philippe de Broca France, Italy, Germany Le Bossu Paul Féval 1858 Novel

Affair of the Diamond Necklace[]

1785

Great Britain[]

Frequently filmed: Doctor Syn and sequels[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Doctor Syn 1937 Roy William Neill UK Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh Russell Thorndike 1915 Novel
2 Captain Clegg 1962 Peter Graham Scott UK Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh Russell Thorndike 1915 Novel
3 The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh 1963 James Neilson USA Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh Russell Thorndike 1915 Novel

Frequently filmed: Moll Flanders[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type

Württemberg[]

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer case[]

1737

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# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Jew Suss 1934 Michael Balcon UK Jud Süß Lion Feuchtwanger 1925 Novel
2 Jud Süß 1940 Veit Harlan Nazi Germany Jud Süß Lion Feuchtwanger 1925 Novel
2 Jud Süß Wilhelm Hauff 1827 Novella

19th century[]

Australia[]

For bushrangers, see List of films based on westerns.

Brazil[]

For cangaceiros, see List of films based on westerns.

Canada[]

For Mounties, see List of films based on westerns.

France[]

Corsica[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Vendetta 1950 Howard Hughes (producer) USA Colomba Prosper Mérimée 1840 Novella

Eugène François Vidocq and la Sûreté[]

Dreyfus Affair[]

See .

Joseph Vacher case[]

1894–1897

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type TV Date Country
1 The Judge and the Assassin
Le juge et l'assassin		 1976 Bertrand Tavernier France &
René Tavernier		 1976 Non-fiction - - -
1 Alexandre Lacassagne 1899 Non-fiction - - -

India[]

Suppression of the Thugs[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Deceivers 1988 Nicholas Meyer India & UK The Deceivers John Masters 1952 Novel

Russia[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Siberian Lady Macbeth
Сибирская леди Макбет		 1961 Andrzej Wajda Poland Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда		 Nikolai Leskov 1865 Novel
2 Katerina Izmailova
Катерина Измайлова		 1966 Mikhail Shapiro USSR Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда		 Alexander Preis &
Dmitri Shostakovich		 1932 Libretto
2 Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда		 Nikolai Leskov 1865 Novel

Frequently filmed: The Winter Queen and sequels[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Azazel *
Азазель		 2002 Aleksandr Adabashyan Russia The Winter Queen
Азазель		 "Boris Akunin" 1998 Novel
  • * TV miniseries

United Kingdom[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Seven Percent Solution 1976 Herbert Ross UK & USA The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint
from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.		 Nicholas Meyer 1974 Novel

Twice filmed: Gaslight[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type

Wreckers[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Jamaica Inn 1939 Alfred Hitchcock UK Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier 1936 Novel

Cato Street Conspiracy[]

February 1820

Burke and Hare case[]

1827–1828

Twice filmed: "The Body Snatcher"[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type

Great Gold Robbery of 1855[]

15 May 1855

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The First Great Train Robbery
aka The Great Train Robbery		 1979 Michael Crichton UK The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton 1975 Novel

Whitechapel murders[]

1888–1891 (Jack the Ripper)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Pandora's Box
Die Büchse der Pandora		 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst Germany Pandora's Box Frank Wedekind 1904 Play
1 Earth Spirit Frank Wedekind 1895 Play
n From Hell 2001 Hughes brothers USA From Hell Alan Moore 1991–1996 Graphic novel
n Murder by Decree 1979 Bob Clark Canada & UK Elwyn Jones & 197? Non-fiction
Frequently filmed: The Lodger[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type

United States[]

For outlaws and lawmen, see List of films based on westerns.

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type

Frequently filmed: "The Tell-Tale Heart"[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Tell-Tale Heart [5] α 1953 USA "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe 1843 Story
  • α Animated film

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln[]

14 April 1865
See .
See also Assassinations in fiction.

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson[]

24 February 1868

Lizzie Borden case[]

4 August 1892

1900s[]

United States[]

Chester Gillette case[]

11 July 1906

Twice filmed: An American Tragedy[]

The novel was the subject of an unproduced 1930 screenplay by Sergei Eisenstein.

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type

1910s[]

France[]

Henri Désiré Landru case[]

1914–1918

United Kingdom[]

Doctor Crippen case[]

after 31 January 1910

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales
El esqueleto de la señora Morales		 1960 Rogelio A. González Mexico "" Arthur Machen 1927 Story

1920s[]

France[]

Frequently filmed: []

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Crainquebille
Crainquebille		 1922 Jacques Feyder France Anatole France[6] 1903 Play
1 Anatole France 1901 Story

Germany[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Pandora's Box
Die Büchse der Pandora		 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst Germany Pandora's Box Frank Wedekind 1904 Play
1 Earth Spirit Frank Wedekind 1895 Play

Peter Kürten case[]

1929

United States[]

Bobby Franks murder[]

21 May 1924 (Leopold and Loeb)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock USA Rope Patrick Hamilton 1929 Play
2 Compulsion 1959 Richard Fleischer USA Compulsion Meyer Levin 1957 Novel

Death of Thomas Ince[]

19 November 1924

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Cat's Meow 2001 Peter Bogdanovich UK & Germany The Cat's Meow Steven Peros 19?? Play

Scopes Monkey Trial[]

1925

Frequently filmed: Inherit the Wind[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer USA Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee 1955 Play

Al Capone era[]

1925–1931

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
n Scarface [7] 1932 Howard Hawks USA Scarface Armitage Trail 1930 [8]¤ Novel
n Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes USA Road to Perdition Max Allan Collins 1998 Graphic novel
n Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick USA Jim Harrison 1979 Novella
St. Valentine's Day Massacre[]

14 February 1929

Ruth Snyder case[]

20 March 1927

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder USA Double Indemnity James M. Cain 1936/
1943		 Novel

1930s[]

Algeria[]

Frequently filmed: []

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Pépé le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier France "Ashelbé" 193? Novel

France[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Judas Was a Woman
La Bête humaine		 1938 Jean Renoir France La Bête Humaine Émile Zola 1890 Novel

Papin Sisters case[]

2 February 1933

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Les Abysses
Les Abysses		 1963 Nikos Papatakis France The Maids
Les Bonnes		 Jean Genet 1947 Play
2 The Maids 1974 Christopher Miles UK The Maids
Les Bonnes		 Jean Genet 1947 Play
3 Sister My Sister 1994 Nancy Meckler UK [9] Wendy Kesselman 1981 Play
4 Murderous Maids
Les Blessures assassines		 2000 Jean-Pierre Denis France 1988 Non-fiction
Twice filmed: A Judgement in Stone[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 1986 Canada & UK A Judgement in Stone Ruth Rendell 1977 Novel
2 La Cérémonie
La Cérémonie		 1995 Claude Chabrol France & Germany A Judgement in Stone Ruth Rendell 1977 Novel

Japan[]

Sada Abe case[]

18 May 1936

United States[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo USA Robert E. Sherwood 1935 Play
n Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich USA Addie Pray Joe David Brown 1971 Novel
n Brother Orchid 1940 Lloyd Bacon USA "" (?) Richard Connell 1938 Story

Scottsboro Boys case[]

23 April 1931

Lindbergh kidnapping[]

1 March 1932

Frequently filmed: Murder on the Orient Express[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet UK Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 Novel

William D. Lundy murder[]

[informative page deleted over copyright violations] [10]
9 December 1932

1940s[]

Austria[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed UK The Third Man Graham Greene 1950 Novella

Bahamas[]

Sir Harry Oakes murder[]

7 July 1943

Canada[]

Edwin Alonzo Boyd era[]

1949–1952 (Boyd Gang)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 * 1982 Les Rose Canada &
 1976 Non-fiction
  • * TV movie

France[]

Doctor Petiot case[]

before 31 October 1944

Italy[]

Salvatore Giuliano era[]

Portella della Ginestra massacre[]

1 May 1947

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Sicilian 1987 Michael Cimino USA The Sicilian Mario Puzo 1984 Novel

Pleasure Island[]

Frequently filmed: The Adventures of Pinocchio[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Pinocchio ♠ α [7] 1940 Walt Disney (producer) USA The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 Children's book
  • ♠ A young innocent is deceived by swindlers and sold into slavery.
  • α Animated film

Kenya[]

Happy Valley murder[]

1941

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 White Mischief 1987 Michael Radford UK James Fox 197? Non-fiction

Newfoundland[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Young Triffie 2007 Mary Walsh Canada Ray Guy 1985 Play

United States[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Dishonored Lady 1947 Robert Stevenson USA Edward Sheldon & Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930 Play
n Intruder in the Dust 1949 Clarence Brown USA Intruder in the Dust William Faulkner[11] 1948 Novel
n Undercurrent 1946 Vincente Minnelli USA Thelma Strabel 194? Novel

Sleepy Lagoon murder[]

2 August 1942

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Zoot Suit 1981 Luis Valdez USA Zoot Suit Luis Valdez 1979 Play

Black Dahlia murder[]

c. 15 January 1947

West Germany[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Good German 2006 Steven Soderbergh USA The Good German Joseph Kanon 2001 Novel

1950s[]

Canada[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 I Confess 1953 Alfred Hitchcock USA Nos deux consciences "Paul Anthelme" 1902 Play

France[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Irma la Douce 1963 Billy Wilder USA Irma la douce Alexandre Breffort 1956 Musical

United Kingdom[]

Stone of Scone theft[]

25 December 1950 (Christmas Day robbery of a church)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Stone of Destiny 2008 Charles Martin Smith UK & Canada aka Taking of the Stone of Destiny Ian R. Hamilton 1952 Memoir

Ruth Ellis case[]

1955

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Pierrepoint 1995 Adrian Shergold UK Albert Pierrepoint 1974 Memoir

United States[]

Great Brink's Robbery[]

17 January 1950

Coleman Peterson case[]

31 July 1952

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger USA Anatomy of a Murder "Robert Traver" 1958 Novel

Ed Gein case[]

1957

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme USA The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 Novel
Frequently filmed: Psycho[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock USA Psycho Robert Bloch 1959 Novel

Suicide of George Reeves[]

16 June 1959

Clutter Family murders[]

15 November 1959

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks USA In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 Nonfiction
2 In Cold Blood 1996 Jonathan Kaplan USA In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1966 Nonfiction
3 Capote 2005 Bennett Miller USA Gerald Clarke 199? Biography
4 Infamous 2006 Douglas McGrath USA George Plimpton 1997 Biography

1960s[]

Argentina[]

San Fernando bank robbery[]

1965 [12]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Burnt Money ♣
Plata quemada		 2000 Marcelo Piñeyro Argentina, France, Spain, Uruguay
Plata quemada		 Ricardo Piglia 1997 Novel
  • ♣ The robbery took place in Argentina; the pursuit ended in Uruguay.

France[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
n La Horse ♠
La Horse		 1970 Pierre Granier-Deferre France La Horse 196? Novel
  • ♠ The film was remade for television in 2005 as Joseph.[13]

Sweden[]

Frequently filmed: Roseanna and sequels[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
n Stockholm Marathon
Stockholm Marathon		 1994 Peter Keglevic Sweden & Germany The Terrorists Sjöwall and Wahlöö 1975 Novel
n The Laughing Policeman Δ 1973 Stuart Rosenberg USA The Laughing Policeman [14] Sjöwall and Wahlöö 1968 Novel
  • Δ The film adaptation changes the setting from Stockholm to San Francisco.

Turkey[]

Topkapı Museum[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Topkapi 1964 Jules Dassin USA The Light of Day Eric Ambler 1962 Novel

United Kingdom[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
n Loot 1970 Silvio Narizzano UK Loot Joe Orton 1965 Play

Profumo affair[]

1963

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Scandal [15] 1989 Michael Caton-Jones UK (uncredited) Christine Keeler (uncredited) 1989 Memoir

Uruguay[]

San Fernando bank robbery getaway[]

1965

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Burnt Money ♣
Plata quemada		 2000 Marcelo Piñeyro Argentina, France, Spain, Uruguay
Plata quemada		 Ricardo Piglia 1997 Novel
  • ♣ The robbery took place in Argentina; the pursuit ended in Uruguay.

United States[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Fitzwilly 1967 Delbert Mann USA Poyntz Tyler 1960 Novel

Clarence Earl Gideon case[]

3 June 1961

Ian James Campbell murder[]

9 March 1963

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Onion Field 1979 Harold Becker USA The Onion Field Joseph Wambaugh 1973 Non-fiction

Boston Strangler case[]

1962–1964

Assassination of John F. Kennedy[]

22 November 1963

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# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Four Days in November δ † 1964 Mel Stuart USA Warren Report Earl Warren for
Warren Commission[16]		 1964 Report
2 * 1966 Rudolph Cartier UK Felix Lützkendorf 1965 Play
3 Rush to Judgment δ 1967 Emile de Antonio USA Rush to Judgment Mark Lane 1966 Non-fiction
4 Executive Action 1973 David Miller USA Rush to Judgment (uncredited) Mark Lane ♣ 1966 Non-fiction
5 δ * 1986 LWT (producer) UK Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy ♦ [17] Vincent Bugliosi 2007 Non-fiction
6 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone USA On the Trail of the Assassins Jim Garrison ♠ 1990 Non-fiction
6 Jim Marrs ♠ 1989 Non-fiction
6 ♥ (uncredited) L. Fletcher Prouty ♠ (uncredited) 1992 Non-fiction
6 [18] (uncredited) John M. Newman ♠ (uncredited) 1992 Non-fiction
7 ** 2013 In Development USA Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy [17] Vincent Bugliosi 2007 Non-fiction
  • ♣ Lane is credited as screenwriter, rather than as author.
  • ♦ Bugliosi's preparation for the televised "trial" of deceased defendant Oswald became the book Reclaiming History.
  • ♠ The authors are credited as technical advisors on JFK.
  • ♥ Prouty's book has an introduction by Oliver Stone.
  • * TV special
  • ** TV miniseries
  • δ Documentary
  • † Dramatized documentary[19]

See also Assassinations in fiction.

Kitty Genovese murder[]

13 March 1964

Sylvia Likens murder[]

26 October 1965

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Girl Next Door 2007 USA The Girl Next Door Jack Ketchum 2005 Novel

Richard Speck case[]

13 July 1966

Tate–LaBianca murders[]

1969 (Manson Family)

Zodiac case[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher USA Zodiac Robert Graysmith 1986 Non-fiction

1970s[]

Canada[]

Helen Betty Osborne murder[]

13 November 1971

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 * 1991 Francis Mankiewicz Canada 1989 [20]¤ Non-fiction
  • * TV movie

Guyana[]

Jonestown Massacre[]

18 November 1978

Italy[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg UK & Italy "Don't Look Now" from
Not After Midnight		 Daphne du Maurier 1971 Story

Sweden[]

Norrmalmstorg bank robbery[]

23–28 August 1973 (Stockholm syndrome)

United Kingdom[]

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# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah USA The Siege of Trencher's Farm Gordon Williams 197? Novel
n The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy UK David Pinner 1967 Novel

Baker Street bank robbery[]

11 September 1971

What if ...[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick UK A Clockwork Orange ♠ Anthony Burgess 1962 Novel
  • ♠ The earliest editions of the novel did not contain a glossary, or any indication that the slang was based on Russian.

United States[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type

New England[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1  [fr] ♠
Lohngelder für Pittsville
Morderstwo w Catamount		 1974 Krzysztof Zanussi USA & West Germany[21] James Hadley Chase 1962 Novel
  • ♠ The film, shot in Bennington, Vermont, involves a "bank in a remote town in New England".[22]
    "Catamount" is an infrequently used term for a cougar, but here refers to the fictitious town.

Jeffrey MacDonald case[]

17 February 1970

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Fatal Vision ** 1984 David Greene USA Fatal Vision Joe McGinniss 1983 Non-fiction
  • ** TV miniseries

Knapp Commission on NYPD corruption[]

1970–1972

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet USA Peter Maas 1973? Non-fiction

Watergate burglary[]

17 June 1972

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula USA All the President's Men Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward 1974 Memoir
2 Blind Ambition * 1979 George Schaefer USA John Dean with Taylor Branch 1976 Memoir
3 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone USA The Final Days Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein 1976 Non-fiction
3 [23] (uncredited) Fawn Brodie (uncredited) 1981 Non-fiction
3 [23] (uncredited) Stephen Ambrose (uncredited) 1991 Non-fiction
3 [23] (uncredited) Stephen Ambrose (uncredited) 1991 Non-fiction
3 [23] (uncredited) Stephen Ambrose (uncredited) 1991 Non-fiction
3 [23] (uncredited) Jonathan Aitken (uncredited) 1996 Non-fiction
3 "The Second Coming" [24] (uncredited) W.B. Yeats[25] (uncredited) 1920 Poem
  • * TV movie

Gay Brooklyn bank robbery[]

22 August 1972 [26]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Dog Day Afternoon [27] 1975 Sidney Lumet USA "The Boys in the Bank" P.F. Kluge 1972 Article

Ted Bundy case[]

1974–1978

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Deliberate Stranger * 1986 Marvin J. Chomsky USA 1980 Non-fiction
  • * TV movie

Frank Lucas case[]

before 1975

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 American Gangster 2007 Ridley Scott USA "" Mark Jacobson 197? Article

Martha Moxley murder[]

31 October 1975

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Murder in Greenwich * 2002 Tom McLoughlin USA Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley? Mark Fuhrman 1998 Non-fiction
  • * TV movie

Hillside Strangler case[]

1977–1978

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 * 1989 USA Darcy O'Brien 1985 Non-fiction
  • * TV movie

Bob Crane murder[]

29 June 1978

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Auto Focus 2002 Paul Schrader USA Robert Graysmith 199? Biography

What if ...[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Night Stalker * 1972 John Llewellyn Moxey USA The Kolchak Papers aka [28] 197? Novel
  • * TV movie

1980s[]

Australia[]

Azaria Chamberlain disappearance[]

17 August 1980 (dingo baby abduction)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Evil Angels (aka A Cry in the Dark[29]) 1988 Fred Schepisi Australia and USA Evil Angels [30] John Bryson 1985 Non-fiction

Canada[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 * 1985 Canada Howard Engel 1980 Novel
  • * TV movie

Colin Thatcher case[]

21 January 1983

Montreal Massacre[]

6 December 1989

France[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1
Le Choc		 1982 Robin Davis France The Prone Gunman
La Position du tireur couché		 Jean-Patrick Manchette 1982 ? Novel

Roberto Succo case[]

1980s

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Roberto Succo
Roberto Succo		 2001 Cédric Kahn France Pascale Froment 1991 Non-fiction

India[]

Phoolan Devi case[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Bandit Queen 1994 Shekhar Kapur India Mala Sen 1993? Non-fiction

Iran[]

Soraya M. case[]

1986

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Stoning of Soraya M.
سنگسار ثریا م.		 2008 Cyrus Nowrasteh USA The Stoning of Soraya M.
 Freidoune Sahebjam 1990 Novel

Mexico[]

Enrique Camarena murder[]

9 February 1985

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Drug Wars: The Camarena Story ** 1990 Brian Gibson USA Elaine Shannon 1988 Non-fiction
  • ** TV miniseries

Soviet Union[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Gorky Park 1983 Michael Apted USA Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith 1981 Novel

Andrei Chikatilo case[]

1978–1990

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Citizen X * 1995 Chris Gerolmo USA The Killer Department 1993 Non-fiction
  • * TV movie
What if ...[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Evilenko ♠ 2004 David Grieco Italy David Grieco 199? Novel
  • ♠ In this version, the murderer, renamed Evilenko, has psychic powers.

United States[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
n Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma USA Scarface (uncredited) Armitage Trail (uncredited) 1930 [8] Novel
n The Local Stigmatic 1990/
2007		 Al Pacino[31][32] (uncredited) &
David Wheeler		 USA The Local Stigmatic Heathcote Williams 196? Play
n Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan USA Nothing Lasts Forever Roderick Thorp 1979 Novel

Doctor Tarnower murder[]

10 March 1980 (Scarsdale Diet author death)

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Mrs. Harris * 2005 Phyllis Nagy USA [33] Shana Alexander 1983 Non-fiction
  • * TV movie

John Lennon murder[]

8 December 1980

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Chapter 27 2005 J. P. Schaefer USA 200? Non-fiction
1 Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (uncredited) Robert Rosen (uncredited) 2000 Non-fiction

See also Assassinations in fiction.

Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek case[]

28 May 1981

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story *
aka Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story		 1993 Sandor Stern Canada & USA Lawrencia Bembenek 1992 Memoir
  • * TV movie

Henry Lee Lucas case[]

before 11 June 1983

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton USA Lucas Report (uncredited) Jim Mattox, Texas Attorney General (office of) (uncredited) 1986 Report

Alan Berg murder[]

18 June 1984

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Talk Radio 1988 Oliver Stone USA Talk Radio Eric Bogosian 1987 Play
1 198? Non-fiction

See also Assassinations in fiction.

Exxon Valdez disaster[]

23 March 1989

West Germany[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Buffalo Soldiers 2001 Gregor Jordan USA Robert O'Connor 1993 Novel

1990s[]

Australia[]

Belgium[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Memory of a Killer
De zaak Alzheimer		 2003 Erik Van Looy Belgium De zaak Alzheimer Jef Geeraerts 1985 Novel

Canada[]

Paul Bernardo case[]

up to 1992

France[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 The Crimson Rivers
Les Rivières pourpres		 2000 Mathieu Kassovitz France Blood Red Rivers Jean-Christophe Grangé 1998 Novel
n Fuck Me aka Rape Me
Baise-moi		 2000 Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi France Baise-moi Virginie Despentes 1993 Novel

India[]

Bombay bombings of 1993[]

12 March 1993

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Black Friday 2004 Anurag Kashyap India Black Friday – The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts S. Hussain Zaidi 199? Non-fiction

Singapore[]

Barings Bank collapse[]

1995

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Rogue Trader 1999 James Dearden UK Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank
and Shook the Financial World		 Nick Leeson 199? Memoir

Spain[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Nadie conoce a nadie ♠ 1999 Mateo Gil Spain Juan Bonilla 1994 Novel (?)
  • ♠ A crossword puzzle writer becomes involved in a bizarre mystery in Seville.

United Kingdom[]

James Bulger murder[]

12 February 1993

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type Basis
1 Boy A ♠ 2007 John Crowley UK Boy A Jonathan Trigell 2004 Novel –
  • ♠ The principal connection to the Bulger case appears to be the youthfulness of the convicted boys.

United States[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
n Night Falls on Manhattan 1997 Sidney Lumet USA Robert Daley 1997 ? Novel

Suicide of Vince Foster[]

20 July 1993

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Primary Colors 1998 Mike Nichols USA Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics "Anonymous"
(Joe Klein)		 1996 Novel

Vietnam[]

2000s[]

Aruba[]

Natalee Holloway disappearance[]

30 May 2005

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Natalee Holloway* 2009 Mikael Salomon USA Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith Beth Holloway 2007 Non-fiction
  • * TV movie

Brazil[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 City of God
Cidade de Deus		 2002 Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund Brazil City of God
Cidade de Deus		 Paulo Lins 1997 Novel

Italy[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Gomorrah
Gomorra		 2008 Matteo Garrone Italy Gomorrah
Gomorra – Viaggio nell'impero economico
e nel sogno di dominio della camorra		 Roberto Saviano 2006 Non-fiction

Mexico[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Trade 2007 Marco Kreuzpaintner Germany "The Girls Next Door" Peter Landesman 2004 Article

South Korea[]

Hwaseong serial murders[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon-ho South Korea Memories of Murder Shim Sung-bo 1996 Play

United States[]

# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Sin City д 2005 Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez USA The Hard Goodbye Frank Miller 1991–1992 Graphic novel
n Reversible Errors ** 2004 USA Reversible Errors Scott Turow 2002 Novel
  • д Decade when story occurs is presumed.
  • ** TV miniseries

Valerie Plame exposure[]

14 July 2003

Bulletin ... upcoming film: Fair Game by Doug Liman[]
# Film Date Director Country Source
work		 Author Date Type
1 Fair Game 2010 Doug Liman USA Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House Valerie Plame Wilson 2007 Memoir

Political crimes[]

For political prisoners, see List of films based on civics books.

Drug trade[]

For traffickers, see above.
For addicts, see List of films based on civics books.

Prisons[]

For punishment and prisons, see List of films based on civics books.

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1953.
  2. ^ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2002.
  3. ^ Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but declined to accept.
  4. ^ Recipient of the World Fantasy Award in 1987.
  5. ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2001.
  6. ^ France was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.
  7. ^ a b Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1994.
  8. ^ a b Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress.
    Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog.
  9. ^ Recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 1981.
  10. ^ Sources to employ if attempting to rewrite deleted article:
    "The Reward". Time magazine. August 27, 1945. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
    "$35,000 Going to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned". Associated Press in The Hartford Courant. July 23, 1965. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
    Center on Wrongful Convictions
  11. ^ Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
  12. ^ Details about the 1965 robbery are difficult to find, but the event occurred in the Buenos Aires suburb called San Fernando.
    Source: Plata Quemada, en el umbral de la novela policiaca posmoderna, Carlos Luis Torres Gutiérrez, profesor de literatura, Pontificia Universidad Javierana, 1999. (in Spanish)
  13. ^ Source: French Wikipédia.
  14. ^ Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1971.
  15. ^ The film was later spoofed as The Man Who Knew Too Little, with Joanne Whalley-Kilmer playing a similar role in both films.
  16. ^ The film's opening credits include "Film and Research Sources". The first such source listed is the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
  17. ^ a b Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book in 2008.
  18. ^ Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 169.
  19. ^ The opening credits state that "[c]ertain scenes have been recreated in the original locations by the actual participants."
    Although the film is essentially a compilation film of high quality, certain minor situations have been recreated, typically a person (a priest, a judge) travelling to his destination (the hospital, the airport). These scenes are seamlessly integrated.
  20. ^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada.
    Source: Library Search.
  21. ^ The IMDb describes the film as a Polish–West German production, which seems unlikely, especially for a film in angielski (English), according to Polish Wikipedia. The IMDb lists countries alphabetically by default, so this could be West German–Polish. A reasonable scenario is West German, with a noted Polish director hired for the production. Polish Wikipedia says the film is an amerykańsko–niemiecki film which fits the facts well and has therefore been used in the table.
  22. ^ Source: IMDb review by "John Seal", 2008.
  23. ^ a b c d e Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 226.
  24. ^ The poem is recited by Richard Helms (Sam Waterston) in the extended version.
  25. ^ Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
  26. ^ Source: Dog day aftertaste, Eric Holm, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 3–4.
    It is unclear what the common name for the robbery was prior to the release of the film.
  27. ^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2009.
  28. ^ Rice is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
  29. ^ "A Cry in the Dark (1988) – Release dates". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
  30. ^ Recipient of the in 1985.
  31. ^ Source: Kamp and Levi (q.v.), p. 89.
  32. ^ Pacino is described as the director in the Wikipedia article on the playwright Heathcote Williams.
  33. ^ Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best fact crime book in 1984.

Bibliography[]

  • with Lawrence Levi. The Film Snob's Dictionary. Broadway Books, New York, 2006.
  • Lavington, Stephen. Virgin Film: Oliver Stone, Virgin Books, London, 2004.

See also[]

  • Assassinations in fiction
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