It all begins in the run-down motels along Florida’s highways, amid lives on the brink of extinction. In this dark atmosphere of the late ’80s, for Aileen Wuornos, drifting along the roads, life is already synonymous with defeat from the very start. The fragile desire to hold on that she felt when she met Selby soon transforms into a different reality. In this crime-drama directed by Patty Jenkins, the inevitable fate of a woman caught in the grip of poverty and violence—as she is drawn step by step toward her end—is portrayed with a harshness close to documentary realism. Drawing on a true story, this narrative lays bare—in uncompromising terms—the fractures in the character’s mind and her struggle for survival, which spirals into a chain of murders.

Won 1 Oscar. 31 wins & 26 nominations total