In pictures: 10 best true crime movies

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  Richard Attenborough as serial killer john christie in 10 Rillington Pl. - 1971 CREDIT: Filmways Pictures

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  At Close Range (1986) Christopher Walken is at his creepy best here as patriarch Brad Whitewood Sr, the leader of an organised crime family who convinces his own sons, Brad Jr (Sean Penn) and Tommy (Chris Penn) to become involved in his criminal activitie???

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  Bonnie & Clyde (1967) Made in the French New Wave style of the 1960s, Arthur Penn’s crime drama was both a critical hit and also a heavily criticised film for its graphic depiction of violence. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty star as real-life partners-i???

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  Dance with a Stranger (1985) Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her dramatised story – leading up to the murder of her lover, David Blakeley, outside a North London pub in 1955 – is told in this classy period drama from directo???

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  Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Al Pacino stars as Sonny Wortzik, whose bungled attempt to rob a bank in 1970s Brooklyn ends up with Sonny and his pal Sal (John Cazale) – on discovering there’s hardly any money in the vault – taking hostages in the hope th???

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  The Executioner’s Song (1982) Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the execution of the murderer Gary Gilmore became a gripping TV movie (originally shown in two parts) that deservedly won leading actor Tommy Lee Jones an Emmy for his pe???

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  GoodFellas (1990) “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.� So says Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in Martin Scorsese’s stunning Mafia movie based on Hill’s real-life experiences as he moved through the mob hierarchy during the 1???

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  Heavenly Creatures (1994) Both stars, Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet, made their big screen debuts in this New Zealand drama from the Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. Based on a 1954 murder case that took place in Christchurch, it’s the mesme???

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  The Onion Field (1979) Harold Becker (Sea of Love) directed this drama based on the novel of the same name that focuses not only on the crime – the kidnapping and shooting of two LA police officers in 1963 – but also the events that followed as the tw???

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  Zodiac (2007) There have been other films made about the Zodiac Killer but this thriller from director David Fincher (Se7en) is far and away the best. In the late 1960s and early 70s, a serial killer terrorised the San Francisco Bay Area, and taunted poli???