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Two homeboys are willing to take "Penitentiary Chances" to get out of the barrio by working for some racist drug-dealers. A trip into an underworld most people don't get to see - where deals go bad and huge risks are taken for survival.
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Ray, an ex-cop, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible for this crime in an effort to clear his own name. Ray must get to the bottom of this as both the mob and cops start to close in on him as their target suspect.
Loosely inspired by a real criminal court case. It took place in Prague and the Tatra Mountains between 1926 and 1928 and was later described as one of the biggest, if not the biggest, cases the pre-Munich Republic had ever seen. Nevertheless, the police and judiciary at the time failed to clarify and close the case in such a way that it would not raise legitimate questions long after the trial had ended. Even though the court handed down its verdicts, the case remained open in a way, and this is also reflected in the script, which remained faithful to the facts in its basic outline," says screenwriter Václav Šašek, author of the two-part television production The Trial of the Martyn Murderers...
Ayna is an actor, and the prison is his stage. Unable to pursue his passion in a rigid society, he turns real life into his theater—taking money from the powerful to serve their prison sentences in their place. Everything changes when he falls for the girl next door, inspiring him to pull off one final swap and leave the dark trade forever. But his last performance plunges him deep into a treacherous rabbit hole. To survive a merciless system and break free from a criminal game he helped build, this underdog must execute the ultimate escape.
Lucien Dolo, a diamond dealer candidate for the Municipal Council of Antwerp, is the subject of a press campaign insinuating that he would be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of his brother Frédéric-Sébastien, known as Freddy during an expedition to the Congo, in which Lucien had participated. Freddy's bad reputation and the hatred existing between the two brothers gives substance to this suspicion. In order to lift the charges against her husband, Isabelle asks Inspector Wens to investigate.
This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Minor incidents - huge impact. The gob-smacking stories of ordinary coppers who stumbled upon key pieces of evidence and helped take down major criminals.
Real-life stories of murder and mayhem on college campuses across the United States.
Aleksandr Kulakov, aka Shark, and Victor Drozd are two experienced police officers, heroes of the Major Crime Unit. They are role models for the rookies. But in reality, they lead a double life. When not at work, they go racketeering on command of a businessman Shultz who has a dark criminal past. But the time is coming for Drozd to give up the crimes. Shark tries to talk him out of it, but his partner remains firm in his decision. A couple of hours later, Drozd is killed. Shark is the most obvious suspect. Shultz bails him out of trouble only to frame him later. He uses Shark to smuggle a drug batch into the city and then kills two guards with his service gun. Shark has to investigate his friend’s murder and revenge Shultz — all while hiding from his former colleagues.
Colonel Maratka and Major Kalasz, employees of the Czechoslovakian defense forces, are facing a difficult task. They must complete a mission that is important for the security of their country. The Prague headquarters of the state security service had previously received information from the GDR that West German military intelligence had apparently succeeded in deciphering the secret code B/13 used in the field of missile armament.
Big Breadwinner Hog is a British television thriller serial devised by Robin Chapman, produced by Granada TV and transmitted in eight parts, starting at 9.00pm on 11 April 1969 on the ITV network. It portrayed the ruthless rise through the criminal underworld of the trendy young London gangster Hogarth. He exploits the resources of a declining gangster, Ryan, to take over the dominant crime syndicate Scot-Yanks, controlled by the equally ruthless and manipulative Lennox. The key to Hogarth's success is knowledge of a murder arranged by Lennox, of which there is a crucial witness, Ackerman, a one-time private eye who has been blackmailed into working for Scot-Yanks, and bitterly resents Lennox as a consequence.
Hosted and produced by Robert Stack, this critically-acclaimed PBS series chronicles the historical rise of international organized crime and its leadership.
A nail-biting gangster drama set in the East End of London, focusing on The Cutlers, a crime family who specialize in extortion and protection racketing.
The story of a young woman who was resurrected from the dead by her father to become a robot. With her strength, she joins the assassination team "Petch Kulap" to take down the villains who use human clones as weapons until she meets a young police officer.
Tensions erupt when two filmmakers infiltrate an area ruled by gangs to shoot a music video for a rapper in this gritty found-footage series.
Taken Down is a crime drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us into a twilight world of the new Ireland where slum landlords and criminals prey on the vulnerable.
This true crime series shows how innocent people have been convicted with dubious forensic techniques and tools such as touch DNA and cadaver dogs
In the Bloc, amid gang clashes, Bea is torn between her role as Segundera and her desire for normality, while Mahdi tries to fill the gap left by her uncle. Among them, the Kasbas: brazen boys of different ethnicities who sow chaos.
Set in the 1980s in the remote and fear-stricken, eerie village of Viraatapalem, which faces a strange chilling curse – every bride dies mysteriously on her wedding day, halting marriages for over a decade. A determined police constable refuses to believe this superstition and, along with a reformed convict, begins to unearth shocking secrets the villagers want hidden.
With unprecedented access to the Bengaluru City Police, this gripping series follows major criminal investigations from the moment the crime is reported through to the capture of the suspects. From murder to kidnap to extortion, each film tracks a shocking and compelling case in the heart of India's Silicon Valley. Filmed with senior officers at home and at work, this is a unique window into the lives of Bengaluru's police officers as they attempt to detect the most complex and serious crimes in the city.
The closed campus of an experimental university on Russian Island. Student Sonya Kimaeva returns from abroad to the academy's dormitory to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend. But during the time that Sonya was absent, the situation has changed dramatically, and now excerpts from the personal diary of the deceased, replete with shocking details, are in the hands of students and teachers. Every day, more and more new secrets of students and teachers of the Academy become known to everyone, thanks to the anonymous blog "Your big secret". And this element cannot be stopped.
An orphaned waiter is forced to carry out dangerous missions for a powerful secret society in exchange for the truth about his past.
To cover up his infidelities and protect his upcoming marriage, a star advertiser helps free an accused rapist by giving a false alibi and suffers the brutal revenge of the victim.
A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.
A Detective investigates the mysterious death of a CEO, believed to have died from a heart condition. However, uncovering dark secrets and hidden grudges leads him to the true culprit in a gripping tale of oppression, power, and revenge.
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
Mao, who can tell when someone will die when she touches them, offers her own body to dying men. One day, Tachibana, whose wife committed suicide after Mao said she would die, draws close to her.
In Pernambuco, a jewel robbery brings together an old group of misfits, with catastrophic results. Watched over by ghosts from the past, each of them will have to find their own way to freedom.
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet set within the Los Angeles underworld.
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.
Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.