Lonely Hearts (2006)

Based On the Life of: Martha Beck

Starring: Salma Hayek

Movie Budget: Unknown

Star Salary: $2.23 million

Lonely Hearts was released in 2006 and is a neo-noir film based on the Lonely Hearts Killers, a couple who went on a killing spree in the 1940’s. The killers were Martha Beck, played by Salma Hayek, and Raymond Fernandez, played by Jared Leto. The movie also featured James Gandolfini and John Travolta as the detectives trying to capture the couple.

Fernandez and Beck met their victims via personal ads that they would place in newspapers, looking for wealthy, single women. The two killed at least a dozen women during their Lonely Hearts spree. The movie made $2.52 million at the box office.