CAST: TAHAR RAHIM, JENNA COLEMAN, AND AMESH EDIREWEERA

DIRECTED BY: TOM SHANKLAND

“The Serpent,” the underreported story of a serial killer in the 1970s who murdered men and women along what some called ‘The Hippie Trail’ in Southeast Asia. Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim ),” was a true sociopath, but a unique kind of sociopath in that he didn’t really kill for the thrill of it as much as he did to maintain his lifestyle, while also obliterating the lives of those he felt were beneath him. With the assistance of his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) and his ally Ajay Chowdhury (Amesh Edireweera), Sobhraj gained the trust of people that the world was unlikely to miss—travelers around Southeast Asia who could disappear without much notice. He would groom them into believing he was an ally before he would steal their belongings and identities, using their passports to travel to their next location. Sobhraj was convicted of killing a dozen people.