TCM Spotlight on True Crime on Thursdays in January 2022

Every Thursday in January 2022 TCM Spotlight is on True Crime.. Every week Turner Classic Movies will be showing movies based on or, at the very least, inspired by actual crimes. The movies start at 8:00 PM Eastern//7:00 PM Central and run all night long.

As part of TCM Spotlight on True Crime, Turner Classic Movies is showing some truly great films. My suggestions as to the films you absolutely do not want to miss are as follows: Rope (1948), the Hitchcock movie based on the 1929 play of the same time, which was inspired by the murder of Bobby Franks in 1924 by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb in Chicago; The Hitch-Hiker (1954), Ida Lupino's classic noir based on spree killer Billy Cook; In Cold Blood (1967), based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel, which was in turn based on the murders of four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959; The French Connection (1971), which was inspired by the real-life pursuit of French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier; Dog Day Afternoon (1975), which was based on the August 22 1972 robbery of the Chase Manhattan branch in Brooklyn; and Double Indemnity (1944), the classic noir based on James M. Cain's novel of the same name, which was in turn inspired by a 1927 murder case in Queens, New York in which Ruth Snyder persuaded her boyfriend Judd Gray to kill her husband.

Below is a complete schedule of the movies airing on TCM Spotlight on True Crime. All times are Central.

Thursday, January 6
7:00 PM Rope (1948)
8:30 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
10:30 PM Badlands (1973)
Friday, January 7
12:30 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
2:35 AM The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1977)
5:00 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Thursday, January 13
7:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)
9:30 PM The Boston Strangler (1968)
11:45 PM River's Edge (1986)
Friday, January 14
1:30 AM The Onion Field (1979)
3:45 AM 10 Rillington Place (1971)
5:45 AM The Strangler (1964)

Thursday, January 20
7:00 PM The French Connection (1971)
9:00 PM Patty Hearst (1988)
11:00 PM Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Friday, January 21
1:30 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
3:45 AM Star 80 (1983)

Thursday, January 27
7:00 PM A Place in the Sun (1951)
9:15 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
11:15 PM The Phenix City Story (1955)
Friday, January 28
1:00 AM I Want to Live! (1958)
3:15 AM The Wrong Man (1956)