True crimes: five of the best films and series in streaming

Some crimes are so well planned or show such a lack of respect for other people’s lives that they attract a lot of media attention and cause many people to search for more information online. This immense popularity attracts the attention of producers of audiovisual works and new adaptations based on true stories are made. Below, check out a list of five of the best true crime movies and series available for streaming.

1. Von Richthofen Affair

In 2021, Amazon Prime Video released two films about the murder of Manfred Albert Von Richthofen and Marísia Von Richthofen, who were murdered by their daughter, her boyfriend and her brother-in-law. Each film is based on the point of view of a different person, the first being that of her daughter, Suzane Von Richthofen, and the second that of her boyfriend, Daniel Cravinhos.

The statements of each of the criminals were collected by the police and served as the basis for creating the plot of each of the films. “The Girl Who Killed Her Parents” is told from the point of view of Daniel Cravinhos, who builds a slow narrative of how Suzane would influence him, little by little, to turn against his parents and commit murder.

“The Boy Who Killed My Parents” says exactly the opposite, from Suzane’s point of view, which reports a more irresponsible and threatening version of Daniel, seen as the true mastermind behind the crime and who influenced her to participate in the crime. homocide.

Both films are available on the Prime Video streaming service.

2. Dahmer: an American cannibal

Jeffrey Dahmer, born in Milwaukee (Wisconsin), was an only child and grew up in an unstable family: while his mother suffered from depression and sometimes tried to kill herself, his father was absent and did not play an important role in his son’s life. Growing up, he became very interested in the bones of dead animals and learned from his father how to dissect and clean them.

As a teenager, his attraction to men mixed with his visceral desire to dissect skin and bones, so Dahmer gradually began to have sexual fantasies about killing, dismembering, dissecting, taking photos of, and eating his partners. Between 1978 and 1991, Dahmer allegedly killed approximately 17 men and boys before he was finally arrested by police and put on trial for his crimes.

Netflix has launched a series, in 2022, based on the crime. Streaming subscribers will be able to check it out by accessing the catalogue.

3. Sparkling Ring: The Hollywood Gang

Between 2008 and 2009, a group of teenagers between 18 and 19 years old decided to search the luxurious homes of famous people in Los Angeles and rob them all. Members of this gang were obsessed with fashion, expensive things and fame, so they decided to “acquire” celebrities’ items to display on Facebook and in nightclubs.

In total, the criminals stole the equivalent of $3 million in items such as shoes, bags, clothes, watches and jewellery. Among the victims were Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox and Orlando Bloom.

A book-reportage was written by Nancy Jo Sales in 2013 and adapted as a film in the same year. The film is available on Prime Video.

4. Gift

Launched in 2021, the protagonist of the series is Pedro Machado Lomba Neto, better known as Dom. The robber, who grew up in the Rio bourgeoisie, was responsible for a series of robberies between 2004 and 2005: he broke in and stole apartments located in Barra da Tijuca, Recreio and Zona Sul, threatening residents with a hand grenade. The young man was addicted to drugs, participated in criminal associations and died after a firefight with the police.

The series is available on Prime Video and mixes fact and fiction in the plot, which focuses on Dom’s childhood and adolescence, as well as exploring his relationship with his father, his comings and goings to rehabilitation clinics and his involvement in the crime.

5. The Night Nurse

“The Night Nurse” is a two-hour feature film, produced and released by Netflix in 2022. The narrative is based on the crimes committed by Charles Cullen in states such as New Jersey starting in 1988. Charles was a nurse and worked in intensive care . , where the hospital’s most serious patients lived. In 2003 he confessed to the murder of 29 victims, although police estimate the total to be more than 400.

His method of murder consisted of applying a contaminated saline solution together with other substances, such as insulin, which in high doses could lead to the death of the patient. In the film, the hospitals where he worked noted the suspicious rate of deaths under the nurse’s care, but chose to fire him rather than investigate him, which caused him to leave for another hospital to continue his killing spree.

The production is available on Netflix.

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