Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.

Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949
7.6/10

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
7.6/10

Layer Cake
2004
6.9/10

Murder She Said
1961
7.3/10

Where the Money Is
2000
5.9/10

Filth
2013
6.8/10

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
2025
6.8/10

Trainspotting
1996
8.0/10

Cape Fear
1962
7.4/10

The United States of Leland
2003
6.5/10

God Bless America
2012
7.0/10

Natural Born Killers
1994
7.0/10

Kill Your Friends
2015
6.0/10

Monsieur Verdoux
1947
7.7/10

Winged Creatures
2009
5.9/10

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
7.0/10

Matchstick Men
2003
7.0/10

No Night Is Too Long
2002
6.3/10

The Good Nurse
2022
6.9/10

Dance with a Stranger
1985
6.1/10
Mein Freund, der Bulle
1998
8/10