This is a list of films that are based on books about crime . Films are listed according to the decade in which the depicted crime occurred, rather than by the film's date of release.
This page includes "crimes" where the "criminal" was later exonerated. This page includes suicides or other deaths which have been deemed to be suspicious by some and have therefore become the subject of conspiracy theories.
12th century
England
Japan
14th century
Italy
16th century
England
1536
Scotland
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17th century
United States
1692–1693
18th century
France
1785
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19th century
Australia
For bushrangers , see List of films based on westerns .
Brazil
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Canada
For Mounties, see List of films based on westerns .
France
Corsica
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See List of films based on war books — peace .
1894–1897
India
Russia
United Kingdom
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February 1820
1827–1828
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15 May 1855
1888–1891 (Jack the Ripper )
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United States
For outlaws and lawmen, see List of films based on westerns .
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14 April 1865List of films based on war books — 1775–1898 .Assassinations in fiction .
24 February 1868
4 August 1892
1900s
United States
11 July 1906
The novel was the subject of an unproduced 1930 screenplay by Sergei Eisenstein .
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Date
Director
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Source
Author
Date
Type
1910s
France
1914–1918
United Kingdom
after 31 January 1910
1920s
France
Germany
1929
United States
21 May 1924 (Leopold and Loeb )
19 November 1924
1925
1925–1931
14 February 1929
20 March 1927
1930s
Algeria
France
2 February 1933
Japan
18 May 1936
United States
23 April 1931
1 March 1932
[informative page deleted over copyright violations] [ 10]
1940s
Austria
Bahamas
7 July 1943
Canada
1949–1952 (Boyd Gang )
France
before 31 October 1944
Italy
1 May 1947
♠ A young innocent is deceived by swindlers and sold into slavery.
α Animated film
Kenya
1941
United States
2 August 1942
c. 15 January 1947
West Germany
1950s
Canada
France
United Kingdom
25 December 1950 (Christmas Day robbery of a church )
1955
United States
17 January 1950
31 July 1952
1957
16 June 1959
15 November 1959
1960s
Argentina
1965 [ 12]
♣ The robbery took place in Argentina; the pursuit ended in Uruguay.
France
♠ The film was remade for television in 2005 as Joseph .[ 13]
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
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1963
Uruguay
1965
♣ The robbery took place in Argentina; the pursuit ended in Uruguay.
United States
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3 June 1961
9 March 1963
1962–1964
22 November 1963
♣ Lane is credited as screenwriter, rather than as author.
♦ Bugliosi's preparation for the televised "trial" of deceased defendant Oswald became the book Reclaiming History .
♠ The authors are credited as technical advisors on JFK .
♥ Prouty's book has an introduction by Oliver Stone.
* TV special
** TV miniseries
δ Documentary
† Dramatized documentary[ 19] See also Assassinations in fiction .
13 March 1964
26 October 1965
13 July 1966
1969 (Manson Family )
1970s
Canada
13 November 1971
Guyana
18 November 1978
Italy
Sweden
23–28 August 1973 (Stockholm syndrome )
United Kingdom
11 September 1971
What if ...
♠ The earliest editions of the novel did not contain a glossary, or any indication that the slang was based on Russian.
United States
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Type
New England
♠ The film, shot in Bennington, Vermont , involves a "bank in a remote town in New England".[ 22] cougar , but here refers to the fictitious town. 17 February 1970
1970–1972
17 June 1972
22 August 1972 [ 26]
1974–1978
before 1975
31 October 1975
1977–1978
29 June 1978
What if ...
1980s
Australia
17 August 1980 (dingo baby abduction)
Canada
21 January 1983
6 December 1989
France
1980s
India
Iran
Soraya M. case
1986
Mexico
9 February 1985
Soviet Union
1978–1990
What if ...
♠ In this version, the murderer, renamed Evilenko, has psychic powers.
United States
10 March 1980 (Scarsdale Diet author death)
8 December 1980
See also Assassinations in fiction .
28 May 1981
before 11 June 1983
18 June 1984
See also Assassinations in fiction .
23 March 1989
West Germany
1990s
Australia
Belgium
Canada
up to 1992
France
India
12 March 1993
Singapore
1995
Spain
♠ A crossword puzzle writer becomes involved in a bizarre mystery in Seville .
United Kingdom
12 February 1993
♠ The principal connection to the Bulger case appears to be the youthfulness of the convicted boys.
United States
20 July 1993
Vietnam
2000s
30 May 2005
Brazil
Italy
Mexico
South Korea
United States
д Decade when story occurs is presumed.
** TV miniseries 14 July 2003
Political crimes
For political prisoners, see List of films based on civics books .
Drug trade
For traffickers, see above.List of films based on civics books .
Prisons
For punishment and prisons, see List of films based on civics books .
References
Notes
^ Recipient of the Tony Award in 1953.
^ Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Revival in 2002.
^ Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but declined to accept.
^ Recipient of the World Fantasy Award in 1987.
^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2001.
^ France was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921.
^ a b Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 1994.
^ a b Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of the US Library of Congress .Library of Congress Online Catalog .
^ Recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 1981.
^ Sources to employ if attempting to rewrite deleted article:"The Reward" . Time magazine the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-13 ."$35,000 Going to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned" . Associated Press in The Hartford Courant . Retrieved 2009-12-13 .Center on Wrongful Convictions
^ Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
^ Details about the 1965 robbery are difficult to find, but the event occurred in the Buenos Aires suburb called San Fernando.Plata Quemada, en el umbral de la novela policiaca posmoderna , Carlos Luis Torres Gutiérrez, profesor de literatura, Pontificia Universidad Javierana , 1999. (in Spanish)
^ Source: French Wikipédia.
^ Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1971.
^ The film was later spoofed as The Man Who Knew Too Little Joanne Whalley-Kilmer playing a similar role in both films.
^ The film's opening credits include "Film and Research Sources". The first such source listed is the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy .
^ a b Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book in 2008.
^ Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 169.
^ The opening credits state that "[c]ertain scenes have been recreated in the original locations by the actual participants."compilation film of high quality, certain minor situations have been recreated, typically a person (a priest, a judge) travelling to his destination (the hospital, the airport). These scenes are seamlessly integrated.
^ Publication details for this title have been confirmed by the catalogue of Library and Archives Canada .Library Search .
^ The IMDb describes the film as a Polish–West German production, which seems unlikely, especially for a film in angielski (English), according to Polish Wikipedia. The IMDb lists countries alphabetically by default, so this could be West German–Polish. A reasonable scenario is West German, with a noted Polish director hired for the production. Polish Wikipedia says the film is an amerykańsko–niemiecki film which fits the facts well and has therefore been used in the table.
^ Source: IMDb review by "John Seal", 2008.
^ a b c d e Source: Lavington (q.v.), p. 226.
^ The poem is recited by Richard Helms (Sam Waterston ) in the extended version.
^ Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
^ Source: Dog day aftertaste , Eric Holm, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media , no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 3–4.
^ Inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2009.
^ Rice is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit , Michigan .
^ "A Cry in the Dark (1988) – Release dates" . IMDb.com. Retrieved 2012-06-15 .^ Recipient of the Allen Lane Award in 1985.
^ Source: Kamp and Levi (q.v.), p. 89.
^ Pacino is described as the director in the Wikipedia article on the playwright Heathcote Williams .
^ Recipient of the Edgar Award for Best fact crime book in 1984.
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