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Lonely Hearts (2006)

Lonely Hearts poster
Directed by
Todd Robinson
Genre
drama film, crime film, thriller film
Country
Germany, United States
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
R
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 381 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the 1940s, two lonely people meet through a personal ad and begin a romance. They turn to robbing and killing the women he dates, spiraling into a spree of violence across several states.

suspensefulbleakgrittytensesomberforebodingromanticized crimeslow-burn

What happens

Lonely Hearts is a 2006 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed and written by Todd Robinson. It is a neo-noir based on the true story of the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers" spree killing of the 1940s, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez. The story of Beck and Fernandez was also the subject of the 1970 film The Honeymoon Killers, directed by Leonard Kastle and the 1996 film Deep Crimson, directed by Arturo Ripstein. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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