Beautiful & Twisted

Beautiful & Twisted (2015) is a true-crime thriller directed by Christopher Zalla — watch it online on iFILM. In the summer of 2009, Ben Novack Jr., heir to the Fontainebleau hotel chain, was found beaten to death in his room at a New York suburb hotel. Detectives fixed their attention almost immediately on his wife Narcy.

Rob Lowe and Paz Vega play the ill-fated couple; Candice Bergen rounds out the cast as Novack's grieving mother. Less interested in shock value than in the psychology of a marriage that reached a violent endpoint — the performances carry it well past tabloid territory. Stream Beautiful & Twisted online on iFILM.