Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Serial Killers: 101 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bosch (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Titus Welliver
- Titus Welliver stars as Michael Connelly's famed detective in this acclaimed series in which Bosch pursues a murderer while standing trial for the…
- Hannibal - Season 2 (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas…
- Further episodes in the grisly, ultra stylised thriller based on Thomas Harris' ubiquitous crime novels, with the grimly compelling relationship…
- Marshland (2014)
- Dir. Alberto Rodriguez
Feat. Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, Maria Varod
- A brooding, exceptionally controlled thriller set in an unsettled post–Franco Spain of 1980 in which two homicide detectives who appear to be…
- True Detective - Season 1 (TV Series) (2014)
- Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan…
- This superlative HBO policier – a marquee television event in 2014, and the first in an anthology of bespoke detective stories – pairs…
- Following, The (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Kevin Bacon, Natalie Zea, Annie Parisse…
- Relentlessly grisly crime series concerns the dogged pursuit of an escaped serial killer by a weathered FBI agent (Bacon), whose job becomes more…
- Hannibal - Season 1 (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas…
- A grisly, ultra stylised thriller based on Thomas Harris' ubiquitous crime novels, with the grimly compelling relationship between FBI agent Will…
- Alex Cross (2012)
- Dir. Rob Cohen
Feat. Tyler Perry, Edward Burns, Matthew Fox…
- An exceedingly derivative serial killer film hatched from James Patterson's best–selling crime novels.
Prolific director Tyler Perry steps…
- Gone (2012)
- Dir. Heitor Dhalia
Feat. Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley…
- Amanda Seyfried suspects the same serial killer who kidnapped her has now taken, but no–one believes her, of course.
Heavily telegraphed…
- Faces in the Crowd (2011)
- Dir. Julien Magnat
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Julian McMahon, Marianne Faithfull
- An oddly balanced thriller, which juggles illness–of–the–week earnestness with the occasionally suspenseful movements of a serial…
- Snowtown (2011)
- Dir. Justin Kurzel
Feat. Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris…
- Australian serial killer John Bunting is the controversial subject of this disturbing yet persuasively told recreation of the 'scum' murders that…