Don’t Miss These 10 Lifetime Movies You Can Now Watch On discovery+

Pop some popcorn and settle in for dramatic retellings of crimes that shocked the world.

August 06, 2021

By: Beth Braden

Photo By: Courtesy of Lifetime Movie Network

Stockholm, Pennsylvania (starring Saoirse Ronan)

A young woman is returned to her biological family 17 years after being kidnapped as a four-year-old. Will she ever be able to see her parents as anything but strangers?

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Whitney

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were a pop-and-R&B power couple through the 90s, but things weren’t pretty behind closed doors. Despite the talent, the money, and the fame, Brown and Houston’s turbulent relationship was littered with rumors of drug abuse and domestic violence prior to their divorce in 2007 and Houston’s untimely death in 2012.

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Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey

Seventeen-year-old Lisa McVey was planning to commit suicide. She’d even left a note, but before she could get home from work and carry out her plan, she was abducted. Her captor was a Tampa Bay, Fla. serial killer who raped and tortured her for more than a day before she managed to escape. There was just one problem—the police didn’t believe her.

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Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story (starring Niecy Nash)

Alexis Kelli Manigo grew up with a mom and siblings who loved her, but her name wasn’t Alexis. That wasn’t her mom, and those weren’t her siblings. Alexis was actually Kamiyah Mobley, and she’d been kidnapped by Gloria Williams from a South Carolina hospital in 1998 when she was just eight hours old. Her true identity was discovered in 2017.

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I Am Elizabeth Smart

Elizabeth Smart was 14 when she was abducted at knifepoint from her family’s home in Salt Lake City. Brian David Mitchell—with the help of his wife, Wanda Barzee—held Smart captive for nine months as they moved between Utah and California. Smart was eventually recognized on the street just 18 miles from her home.

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Girl in the Bunker

A teenage girl in South Carolina is arrested and abducted by a man pretending to be a sheriff’s deputy after getting off the school bus in early September 2006. For 10 days, the entire community looked for the girl who was being sexually assaulted and held in chains in a homemade bunker in the woods. The girl befriended her captor, convincing him to let her play games on his phone—she then texted her mother the best tip the police could have hoped for.

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Stalked by My Mother

A high school senior, Maddy Beauregard, falls madly in love with a college frat boy, a relationship her mother is none-to-pleased about. It doesn’t take long before Maddy realizes her mother is stalking her and her new boyfriend, but it doesn’t stop there. Her new love is in grave danger at the hands of her mother.

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An Amish Murder

Kate Burkholder fled her tiny hometown of Painters Mill, Ohio, but she’s summoned home 15 years later to help solve a rash of murders haunting a place where the ways of the world and the ways of old collide.

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Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (starring Taraji P. Henson)

A New York City school teacher refuses to give up after her son is abducted and taken to Seoul, South Korea, by his biological father. Assisted by Mark Miller of the American Association for Lost Children, Tiffany travels around the world to rescue her child in a high-stakes plan that nearly falls to pieces at the last moment.

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Tiny House of Terror

Samantha Hastings’ tech-mogul husband was gone, and she couldn’t bear to spend any more time in the smart house he’d designed. She fled Silicon Valley looking for a simple, low-tech place to put her life back together, but what she thought would be perfect turned out to be her personal hell.

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