Incredible Crime Movies That Were Based On True Events

The Black Dahlia (2006)

The Black Dahlia was released in 2006 as a French-American neo-noir film. Although most of the film is fictional, it is based on the true story of the murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947. After her death, Short was later known as “the Black Dahlia” who was an American woman found murdered in Leimert Park in Los Angeles. Her murder became so well-known due to the graphic nature of her slaying which included severe mutilation of her body, which was severed at the waist. It is this murder that is the inspiration for this film although the rest is based essentially entirely on fiction.