The Silence of the Lambs (1991)






FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. Unfortunately, her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to his escape, and now two deranged killers are on the loose.


Books on The Silence of the Lambs

Cynthia J. Miller (ed.)
The silence of the lambs, Critical essays on a cannibal, Clarice, and a nice Chianti
Lanham, 2017

Yvonne Tasker
The Silence of the Lambs
London, 2002

Books with substantial mentioning of The Silence of the Lambs

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Jürgen Müller
Filme der 90er
Köln-London-Madrid-New York-Paris-Tokyo, 2001

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1992, A Survey of the Films of 1991
Pasadena, Ca; Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Silence of the Lambs

Nick de Semlyen, Your 10 Best '90s Movies, in: Empire, nr. 198 (December), 2005 pp. 150-151