23 of the Best True-Crime Movie Adaptations
DeAnna Janes
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True story: Sydney Sweeney can straight murder a lewk. But the stunning actress is also an ace on the screen, and missing out on her performance as Reality Leigh Winner, the whistleblower who leaked national secrets to the public, would be a crime. As would skipping out on the following selection of the very best true-crime movie adaptations.

From dark comedies that laugh through their misdeeds to emotionally raw dramas that are essential to modern cinema, we’ve combed through the last five years to unearth a dynamic list of films not only based on true stories, but inspired by true-crime stories and starring your favorite actors. Should you need a breather afterward, hit up our best comedy films of all time or ’80s movies we all need right now

Environmental crime, though not as sexy as, say, dancers extorting yuppie douche-bags, is still crime. Here, Carol

director Todd Haynes takes aim at DuPont. Using a New York Times article, “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare,” as its compass, the film chronicles the fight an Ohio lawyer, Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), wages against the corporate behemoth that knowingly contaminated the public’s drinking water with toxic sludge.

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