10 Netflix movies and shows to watch like Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Netflix Movies like Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Netflix is hitting the ground running in 2021 with compelling true crime releases, like Crime Scene: The Vanishing at Cecil Hotel, which is currently No. 1 on the Netflix Top 10.

If you binged the new Netflix original, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel and now you’re looking for other ways to satisfy your true crime obsession, you’re in luck.

Netflix is loaded with tons of true crime options. And, it’s looking like Crime Scene season 2 is going to happen. While you wait, you should check out everything Netflix has to offer in the true crime genre.

Below, we shared a list 10 suggestions, three movies and seven shows, that are as riveting as Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil.

1. American Murder: The Family Next Door

Like Elisa Lam vanishing from the Cecil Hotel, the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her two daughters made national news. This documentary uses “raw, firsthand footage” to examine what happened and how her husband ultimately confessed to their killings.

2. Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox spent four years in an Italian prison after her roommate and fellow exchange student, Meredith Kercher, was murdered. Something her case shares in common with the Crime Scene featuring Elisa Lam’s demise, Knox’s case and her subsequent acquittal also made international news.

3. Abducted in Plain Sight

As The Atlantic pointed out, Forever B was the original title for Abducted in Plain Sight before Netflix added it to its true crime docket. It documents the kidnappings of Jan Broberg Felt, who, before becoming an actress who appeared in shows like Criminal Minds and Everwood, was an Idaho teenager who endured twice being abducted by her neighbor, Robert Berchtold, in the 1970s.

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