“Skip to Main Content from ‘Dahmer-Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ to ‘WHEN See US,’ Here Are Some of the MOST POPULAR TRUE-CRIME Shows and MOVIES OF THE LAST FEW YEARS. PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 23, 2025 from Left: ‘The Dropout,’ WHEN SEE US, ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ and ‘Welcome”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com

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There’s No Denying The Fact True-Crime Stories Are EveryWhere-Be in PodCasts, TV Series, or Movies-and the Craze Doesn’t Seem to be Slowing Down Anytime Soon. The Hollywood Reporter Compiled A List of Some of the MOST RECENT TRUE-CRIME Series and Films Available to Stream.
These Hit Shows and MOVIES HAVE Garnered More than 60 Emmy Nominations Over The Last Few Years, with 11 Coming This Year for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menndez Story.
A 2022 Youugov Poll Showed that Half of Americans Enjoy True-Crime Content, with One in Three Saying they Consume It Least Once A Week and One in Four Admitting that Watch. The Poll Also Showed that True-Crime Series and Movies Tend to Make People More Empatical Toward Victims and Safety-Conscios, As Well As Better-Sustic in How.
With interest in True Crime Seemingly at An All-Time High, As Viewers Seek Content That Transports Them Into Real-Life Stories, It’s No Surprise Therere Astantly Salie. platForms.
So, what is it about the True Crime genre that Draws people in so much? Access to Jean Kim, MD, Audiens May Be Entraned by the Content Because they Find Comfort in the Reassuring Narrative Formula, ITS Reinforcing Sense of Lesk.
Below, Find A List of 37 TRUE-CRIME (OR TRUE-CRIME ADJACENT) TV SHOWS AND MOVIES THAT CAN BE WATCHED ON MAX, NETFLIX, HULU and MORE.
- ‘The vow’
Image Credit: CourTesy of HBO The VowStreaming on Max, Follows Former nxivm members as they open up about the imocial toll of the evults that took place in the so-called self-imper group, whroe leader, whrum. Sex Trafficking, RacketEERING AND Other Crimes. The DOCUSERIES REVEALS The EMODIONAL JOURNEYS OF THE GROUP’S FORUDERS, SUPPORS and DEFERORS AS NEW EVIDENCE MOMES TO LIGHT.
- ‘Unbelievable’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Based On a True Story, Netflix’s Unbelievable Follows Kaitlyn Dever’s Marie After SHE Comes Forward and Reveals She Was Bound, Gagged and Raped Before Recanting Her Story. Two Female Detectives, Played by Merritt Wever and Toni Collette, Follow A Trail That Could Lead Them To What Really Happy in the Drama Series.
- ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’
Image Credit: Ray Mickshaw/FX/Courtesy Everett Collection The Assassination of Gianni Versace is the Second Installment in the American Crime Story Franchise and Explores the Murder of the Famed Designer by Spree Killer Andrew Cunanan. The Scripted Nine-Episode Series is Based on the Book Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and The Largest Failed Manhunt in Us History.
- ‘The DROPOUT’
Image Credit: Beth Dubber/Hulu Bassed on the abc podcast of the Same name, Hulu’s scripted series The DROPOUT Details The Real-Life Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes (Played by Amanda Seyfried), Theranos Founder and Ceo Who Developed A Health-Care Technology that Put.
- ‘The watcher’
Image Credit: Eric Liebowitz/Netflix Netflix’s fictionalized The Watcher Follows a Married Couple, Played by Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, Who Move Into their Dream Home in the New Jersey Suburbs, Only to Begin Receive Terrifying Letters From.
- ‘A Friend of the Family’
Image Credit: Fernando Decillis/Peacock Peacock’s Scripted Series A friend of the family Brings to Life the True Story of the Broberg Family, Whose Youngst Daughter, Jan (McKenna Grace), Was Kidnapped Multiple Times by the Friend, Played by Jake. Lacy’s Robert Exploited The Broberg’s Vulnerabilites and Turned Their Daughter Against Them.
- ‘Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal Follows the story of a promonent south Carolina Family who Legacy Begins to Unravel After A Fatal Booting Acident and, Later, Maggie Murdaugh and Son Paul’s Murders. The Netflix Docuseries Brings to Light A Century of Corruption, Power and Cover-Ups in the Southern State.
- ‘Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Hulu This Hulu Docuseries Explores the Origins of A Cult at Sarah Lawrence College, Were Students Fell Under the Influence of a Friend’s Facher, Larry Ray. The Cult Originated in 2010 on the College Campus Until it Recent Demise, for Who’s The aftermath is Still Unfolding.
- ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’
Image Credit: Ser Baffo/Netflix Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Dramatizes the story of the Notorious Serial Killer, Who Was Active in the Midwest Between 1978 and 1991. The Scriprated Series Follows Instances Wahmer Was
- ‘UNSOLVED MYTERIES’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Unsolved Mysteries Originally aired on NBC from 1987-97 Before Being Rebooted at CBS from 1997-99, Lifetime from 2001-02, Spike from 2008-10, and Netflix from 2020 to Present Day. The True-Crime Docuseries Highlights Real Cases of Baffling Disappearans, Shocking Murders and Paranormal Encounters.
- ‘Mindhunter’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Netflix’s Mindhunter Follows the Creation of the Behavioral Analysis Unit with the Training Division at the FBI Academy in Quantico and the Beginning of Criminal Profiling. The Scripted Series Centers on Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallaany) and Psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), with David Fincher and Carlize.
- ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’
Image Credit: Michelle Faye/Fx Bassed on Jon Krakauer’s Nonfification Book Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent FaithThe Hulu Scripted Series Follows andrew Garfield’s Jeb Pyre and Gil Birmingham’s Detective Bill Taba As They Investigate A Double Murder Committed in The Name of God ( (Wyatt Russell).
- ‘Candy’
Image Credit: Tina Rowden/Hulu Hulu’s Drama Series Candy Brings to Life the True Story of Candy Montgomery, A 1980s Housewife and Mother Who Did Everything Right Thratha Until She Began An Affair with Her Neighbor That Ended In Murder. The Jessica Biel- and Melanie Lynskey-Starring Series Details the Time Leading Up to the Affair, The Affair Itelf, The AX-Murder and the Court Trial.
- ‘INVENTING Anna’
Image Credit: Aaron Epstein/Netflix Julia Garner Plays The Real-Life Anna Delvey on Netflix’s Scripted Drama Series, WHICH DRAWS from the Actual Case of the Instagram-Legendary Hearts of El.
- ‘The act’
Image Credit: Brownie Harris / Hulu Hulu’s scripted series The Act Follows Gypsy Blanchard (Joey King), A Girl Trying to Escape Her Toxic Relationship with Her OverProtective Mother, Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette). WHEN HER Quest for Independence Begins, One Secret Ultimately Leads to Murder.
- ‘The Staircase’
Image Credit: CourTesy of HBO Based On a True Story, Max’s Scripted Series The Staircase Follows Michael Peterson, A Novelist Acusted of Killing His Wife After She’s Found Dead at the Bottom of the Staircase in Their Home. WHEN The INVestigation Begins, The Family Is Thrown Into A Legal Battle, and A French Documentary Team Takes Interest.
- ‘The Girl From Plainville’
Image Credit: Steve Dietl/Hulu Elle Fanning Takes On the ROLE OF MICHELLE CARTER IN THE HULU Scripted Series, WHICH Tells The True Story of Michelle’s “Texting-Suicide” Case. IT Explores Her Relationship with Conrad Roy III and The Events Leading Up to His Death and Her Eventual Convention for Involuntary Manslaughter.
- ‘Dopesick’
Image Credit: Antony Platt/Hulu Michael Keton Stars in Danny Strong’s Hulu Scripted Series, WHICH Explores America’s Struggle with Opioid Addition – from Purdue Pharma to the Hallways of the Dea. Kaitlyn Dever, Rosario Dawson and Will Polter Also Star.
- ‘WHENS SEE US’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Ava Duvernay’s WHEN they see us Follows the Lives of the Central Park Five, A Group of Five Young People Who Were Falsely Charged with Assaulting and Raping A Jogger in 1989. from any the teens are first questioned to their Exoneration in 2002.
- ‘Ted bundy: Falling for a killer’
Image Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images Prime Video’s Docuseries Falling for A Killer Reframs Ted Bundy’s Crimes from A Female Perspective and Uncovers of the Ways His Hatred of Women Colled with The Feminist Movement and Culture Wars of the 1970s, Access.
- ‘Making a murderer’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Making a murderer is Filmed over the Course of 13 Years and Sees Tw O Men – Steven Avery and Brendan Dasssey – Convicted of A Grim Crime they may not have committed. The Netflix Docuseries’ Publicity Prompted Petitions to have Avery’s Case Reviews, But Wisconsin Officials Insist Some Evidence is Missing from the Docusseries.
- ‘Fear City: New York Vs. The mafia ‘
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix This Netflix docuseries Explores New York’s Legendary Families – The Gambinos, The Colombos, The Bonannos, The Lucches and The Genovese – in the 1970s and ‘ Down.
- ‘Extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix ZAC EFRON AND LILLY COLLINS STAR IN NETFLIX’S SCRIPTED DRAMA Extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vileWHICH FALLLINS ‘liz as she Falls in Love with Efron’s Ted Bundy and Refusses to Belve he is guilty of the Kidnappings and Cries Against WOMEN OF WICH HE. Haley Joel Osmen, John Malkovich and Jim Parsons Also Star.
- ‘Welcome to Chippendales’
Image Credit: Erin Simkin/Hulu Hulu’s Biographical Drama Welcome to Chippendales Follows Kumail Nanjiani’s Somen “Steve” Banerjee, An Indian Immigrant in Search of the American Dream, Who Goes on Create The Male Revue Show that Became a Cultural.
- ‘Narcos’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Netflix’s Scripted Series Narcos isn’t Straight Fiction, as the Storyline Takes A Lot of What Actual Happened Durying the Rise of the Cocaine Trade in Colombia and The Actions Taken by Law Enforcement as they Battle. The Two Dea Agents Whook Down Pablo Escobar – Steve Murphy and Javier Peña, Who Are Portrayed by Boyd Holbok and Pedro Pascal, Respectively – Previosly told The Hollywood Reporter That seres taks “Some Artistic Licenses, But The Timeline Is Accurate.”
- ‘TRUTH BE TOLD’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Apple TV+ Scripted Series TRUTH BE TOLD is bassed on Kathleen Barber’s Novel Are you sliding and follows True-Crime Podcaster Parnell (Octavia Spencer) As She Revisits The Case Made Her Famouss WHEN NEW EVENCE MACEFEFEULES TO LIGHT THAT SUGGEESTS HERE SUSPECT MAY HAVED Each Season of the Appletv+ Series Follows A Different Cast and Also Stars Kate Hudson, Aaron Paul, Lizzy Caplan and the Late Ron Cephas Jones.
- ‘Night Stalker: The Hunt for A Serial Killer’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix Netflix’s Docuseries Night Stalker: The Hunt for A Serial Killer Follows Young Detective Gil Carrillo and Homicide Investigator Frank Salerno as They Rush to Find the Nocturnal Criminal Responsible for a Series of Seemingly 1985 Angeles.
- ‘The Case Against Adnan Syed’
Image Credit: CourTesy of HBO HBO’ FURO-PART DOCUSERIES EXPLORES the 1999 Murder of Hae Min Lee and the Subsequent Convision of Her Ex-Boyfriend Adnan Syed, A CASE BROUGHT TO GLOBAL ATENDION BY. Serial Podcast. Twenty Years Later, Syed’s Murder Conviction Was Vacated, and He Was Released from Prison.
- ‘The ripper’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix In West Yorkshire and Manchester, England, Between 1975 and 1980, Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe Murdered 13 Women. This Four-Part Netflix Docuseries Follows the Investigation Surrowing the Murders at the Hand of Sutcliffe, Whose Methods Resembled Jack the Ripper’s and Garnered Him.
- ‘The Trials of Gabriel Fernández’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix In Netflix’s Docuseries The Trials of Gabriel Fernándezfilmmaker Brian Knappenberger Investigates the Death of An 8-Year-Eld California Boy Who Endured Abuse by his Mother and Her Boyfriend and Raises Questions ABOUTS. Children.
- ‘Griselda’
Image Credit: Netflix Netflix Limited Series Griselda is bassed on the real-life story of Griselda Blanco, ALSO KNOWN as the “Godmother of Cocaine.” Sofía vergara tacks on the Titular Role. Her Portrayal of the Colombian Drug Lord Landed Her An Emmy Nomination, and She Became Only the Second Latin Woman to be nominated for Best Lead Actress The Queen’s Gambit. Blanco Was Responsible for Transitioning the Drug Trade from Colombia to the United States, Primarily Making Her Mark in Miami in the 1970s Until The Early 2000s.
- ‘Under the bridge’
Image Credit: Darko Sikman/Hulu Under the bridge is bassed on the 2005 Book of the Same Name by Rebecca Godfrey, WHICH Follows the True Story of the Murder of 14-Yyear-Old Reena Virk (Vritika Gupta) “Shoreline Six.” Riley keugh portrays the writer, who retrient to her hometown of Saanich, British Columbia, to Writer a novel she was working on before. of Killing Reena. Keugh Stars Appessite Lily Gladstone, Who Received Her First Emmy Nod for Her Role in the Series.
- ‘The jinx – part two’
Image Credit: Max The jinx – part two Comes Nearly A Decade After the First Installment and Picks Up Right WHERE IT LEFT OFF, WITH Robert Durst – Who Who Was Convicted of Killing His Best Friends, Susan Berman Head Saying, “What Did I DO? KILled Them All, Of Course.” He was senttenCed to life in prison, with the possibility of parole in 2021 But Died of Natural Cause in 2022. docuseries with the “FIVE WORDS Everyone is Talking About.”
- ‘The Truth Vs. Alex Jones’
Image Credit: CourTesy of HBO HBO’S DOCUMENTARY Follows the Rise and Fall of Alex Jones, One of the Most Controversial Voices in American Media. The Project Details How Hw Built An Empire and Fueled His Own Collapsse WHEN HE BEGAN Promoting A Conspiracy Theory That Sandy Hook Elementary School. actors. The Truth Vs. Alex Jones Was Filmed Over Four Years and Two Court Trials, Ultimately Leading to Jones Declaring Bankring.
- ‘Feud: Capote Vs. the swans’
Image Credit: Fx The Second Installment in Ryan Murphy’s Feud Franchise Is Based On Laurence Leamer’s Best-Seling Book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and A Swan Song for An EraWHICH Followed Writer Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and the Elite New York Women He Surrounded HimSelf with. Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore and Molly Ringwald Star in the FX Series. While Not Exactly True Crime, Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans IA Based on the True Story of Capote and His “Swans” in 1950s New York.
- ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menndez Story’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix After The Success of Netflix’s Dahmer, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Follow-Up Season of Their Monsters anthrology folllowed the Menndez Brothers’ Murder Case, The Series, WHICH EARned 11 2025 Emmy nominations, Portrayed the 1989 Doubble Murder (chloë (chloë sevigny) Sons, Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch), Who Allegedly Endured Sexual Abuse by Their Dad for Years. Lyle and Erik Were Convicted of Murder in 1996 and SentenCed to Life in Prison Without Parole. After the increasted public attention from the Series, they were resentied to 50 years to life and became eligible for parole consider. On aug. 21-22, Both Brothers Were Denied Freedom by the California Parole Board.
- ‘Amy Bradley Is Missing’
Image Credit: CourTesy of Netflix The Three-Episode Netflix docuseries investigates the 1998 Disappeance of 23-Iear-Eold Amy Bradley, Who Went Missing While She Was on a Caribbean Cruise with. The Ship Conducted A Full Search; However, A Body Was Never Found. Over The Years, Multiple People Have Claimed Seen Bradley Alive on the Dutch Caribbean Island and Alleged to Have Seen Her in Aruba. In july, the Series’ filmmakers unpacked the make of the doc with Thr and Shared their Beliefs about what happled to her.
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