Hybristophilia
“I get drunk on you baby. I will drink you all the time.”
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- DirectorAlina ShulzStarsAlina SchulzAstrid WagnerBorwin BandelowThere are women who feel emotionally and sexually attracted to violence, rapists or series killers. In psychology one speaks in this affection for criminals of hybristophilia. This phenomenon is seen as a sexual disorder, but has hardly been researched. The possible causes behind hybristophilia are diverse. Some affected people have a pronounced helper syndrome, others find evil attractive and can even imagine being carried away into criminal acts. Anyone who is hybristophil shows that one could also end up in danger through relationships with criminals.
- DirectorSylvie AguirreThierry FournetPatrick SchmittStarsClémentine CélariéAkila AmirSusan AtkinsWhy would someone fall in love with a convicted killer whose only hope of leaving prison is in a coffin? Notorious murderers like 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez still receive bags of fan mail. He ended up marrying one of the women who wrote to him. Susan Atkins, convicted of the murder of actress Sharon Tate, also married twice while still in prison. We meet the men and women who have fallen in love with murderers.Some of them have conceived children in prison with their spouses.Others have dedicated their lives to freeing their partners. Should we see these people as deluded victims? Or can love really flourish behind prison walls?
- DirectorBen LewisStarsAndreas BaaderGudrun EnsslinBodo KindermannExplores the Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla movement (aka the Red Army Faction) in 1970s West Germany.
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsNatasha RichardsonWilliam ForsytheVing RhamesIn the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
- DirectorPeter NagyStarsFritz FriedelErnst GeigerReinhard Haller"He was attractive, cultivated, very sensitive, very empathetic". Lawyer Astrid Wagner's first impression when meeting the serial killer Jack Unterweger. As a young law student she had close contact with him: "It was a nice feeling to be needed." On June 28, 1994 Unterweger is convicted for the murder of nine prostitutes. Six hours later, he hangs himself in his cell. Twenty years later, Thema unrolls the incredible story of the woman murderer and asks former friends and other companions how Jack Unterweger influenced their lives.
- DirectorSigrid FaltinStarsMario MoserRudi MoserRobert PhelpsA woman falls in love with a criminal; writes, visits and fights for a man she only met behind bars. This phenomenon is common in all prisons. The hostage takers from Gladbeck both married in prison - and divorced again. Anders Behring Breivik is showered with offers of contact in his cell; the legendary prostitute murderer Jack Unterweger had a relationship with his lawyer. The vast majority of these relationships fail. What attracts these women? Because men who fall in love with imprisoned women are almost unknown.
- DirectorSusanna LoStarsEric BalfourPatti D'ArbanvilleStella MaeveAbout the female devotees who joined Manson's flock in the 1960s and helped carry out brutal killings meant to start an apocalyptic race war.
- StarsSal LaBarberaHadley MearesJoan RennerNot long after the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles opened in 1924, a guest committed suicide in one of its rooms, beginning a decades-long string of murders, suicides or otherwise unexplained deaths on the property. Is it a mere coincidence or is there an underlying force that ties together the spooky, sinister incidents? That's the question examined in this investigative docuseries, which plays out like a true-crime story with a supernatural bent. It delves into three unexplained events, including perhaps the most compelling, that of Canadian college student Elisa Lam, who suspiciously drowned in the hotel's water tank in 2013.
- StarsLinda NybergLotta NorråJonna Norberg-Alm"In love with a murderer" - Every year, thousands of love letters are sent to Swedish prisons. In this documentary we will meet women who are in partnership with hardcore criminals.
- DirectorPeter HammerStarsMariann PoulsenBrandur JohansenPeter LundinEast Jutland State Prison, 2008: Mariann Poulsen marries Peter Lundin, one of Denmarks most notorious murderers. At home Marianns boyfriend of ten years and their young daughter unknowingly await. And at the prison gates Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet are waiting for the bride. A bizarre love triangle takes the front pages over the coming months. For the first time since then Mariann and her then boyfriend Brandur tell their story.
- StarsDeborah RobertsRosalie MartinezJohn QuiñonesThe story of a woman who left her husband and family to marry a convicted serial killer.