Looking for some quality true crime to watch at home? Here are the best true crime documentaries, series, and adaptations that you can watch at home on Netflix and other streaming platforms.
Before he directed 2019’s Best Picture winner
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho was already a pioneer filmmaker at the forefront of Korea’s New Wave. Films like
Okja,
Snowpiercer, and
The Host garnered him international acclaim for his biting social commentary, acerbic wit, and deft tonal twists. Bong’s 2003’s procedural murder thriller
Memories of Murder is commonly touted as not only one of his best, but one of the greatest Korean films ever produced.
Based on a true story from the 1980s,
Memories of Murder finds two detectives struggling to capture the culprit behind a then-unprecedented series of murders of women in the agrarian town of Hwaseong. As the stress of the case wears on and the bodies pile up, Seo (Kim Sang-kyung) and Park (Song Kang-ho) are pushed to their brink by a desperate search to bring the killer to justice.