other movies like this?
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The Amy Fisher Story
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It has really nothing in common in terms of the plot, except that it takes place in a girls school (in the 30's). However like Heavenly Creatures, it was one of those movies I couldn't stop thinking about for days. In fact, I saw HC first and after I saw Jean Brodie, I thought the only time I had felt like that after a film was HC. Maggie Smith is great and won an Oscar for it. Highly recommended.
shareReleased in the same year, 1994, "The Incredibly True adventures of 2 Girls in Love", the lesbian teenager theme anyhow, no murder stuff.Impressed that Peter Jackson was directing back then...this must not have been as big as the later Kate Winslet hit Titanic due to the period piece setting, though Titanic took place FORTY YEARS EARLIER than this one..I saw some very georgous clips...Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey seemed to really enjoy playing those outcast 1952 teenagers.
shareSomehow I ended up watching Heavenly Creatures around the same time I saw Rachel Wiesz in Heavenly Creatures (2000) and then obtained Dead Gorgeous (2002) on DVD again, which I had seen this one when it first came on tv, but I must say, watching all three together does come across in a very interesting manner.
Unless you mean true stories of female killers, I don't care for the Monster story to ever even bother watching it for it's Oscar winning performance, nor do I care for any of the Amy Fisher movies, mainly because again, I don't care for the subject matter. The media coverage was more than enough. And the movies were nothing but exploitive.
Granted, these probably were as well, but you have two versions of I Want To Live, the Barbara Graham story.
One was an academy award winning performance by Susan Hayward, the other was a telemovie with Lindsey Wagner. Based on a true story.
Compulsion (1959) was also based on the Leopold and Loeb case (though the names are changed). Two male law students kill a little boy. Also the Brian De Palma film Dressed to Kill (a mysterious woman stabs another woman in an elevator) (I am leaving out a major spoiler in the film, though)
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