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The story of the mysterious and brilliant Jack Parsons in 1940s Los Angeles as by day he helps birth the discipline of American rocketry and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley.
Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.
Women are disappearing without a trace in Rajasthan and nobody seems surprised. But police officer Anjali Bhaati notices a similarity in the cases: long nightly phone calls and a boyfriend that no one in the neighbourhood has ever seen.
How far would you go to protect those you love? Divided loyalties test the ties of family and friends—because secrets always have consequences.
Guan Yu, who was a soldier, has a meticulous mind, rigorous style, and extremely hard physical and mental quality. He has solved numerous major and small cases. From a simple and fierce little white criminal policeman, he has grown all the way to a wise and experienced Lanhe County Criminal Police Team Captain. Guan Yu's physical condition went from bad to worse after being promoted to captain of the criminal police. After the 1223 major case, Guan Yu was faced with danger. Under the pressure of time, pressure from superiors, and the loss of relatives and comrades in arms, the black hand of evil is still hidden under the glacier. In the face of this case with many intertwined and implicated cases, can Guan Yu hold high the light of justice and the fire of hope in his hands?
A young woman's mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth.
In 'De Verraders' Staf Coppens gathers 20 famous Flemish people for a psychological game full of lies, betrayal, manipulation and suspicions. The famous Flemish spend 10 days in a mysterious castle, for a blood-curdling game between two camps. Except... when Traitors and Faithfuls must work together to earn the largest possible treasure of silver. Can the allies unmask all the traitors or will the traitors stay one step ahead of them?
Ginza is a night town filled with ambition and burning desire… How does a plain bank clerk embezzle an enormous amount of money and jump into the underground world? What is her ultimate goal? Her greatest weapon is a black leather-bound notebook.
The appearance of a mysterious little boy interrupts the quiet, predictable life shared by an artist with autism and his caring older brother.
The Fairytaler is a 2004 Danish animated television series based on the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
"Cat Hiring" is a drama that features cute pets, sweet love and suspense. The story revolves around a "cat-hiring shop" in Lin'an, Southern Song Dynasty. When she was young, the proprietress Zhang Qiao'er learned some cat-training skills from the artisans who came and went in the teahouse. Since she opened the cat shop, families in the city who needed cat slaves would go to the shop and hire cats to take home according to the procedures. Unexpectedly, a major case in the city involved the proprietress Zhang Qiao'er, and she got to know Ma Qingshan, an honest young constable in Lin'an Prefecture. As the case goes deeper, Zhang Qiaoer's other identity is slowly revealed. It turns out that she is a well-known "little thief cat" among the people and the one that Ma Qingshan has been chasing. The two develop feelings for each other during the chase, and eventually they work together to find the murderer behind the scenes and protect Lin'an City.
Oh Soo Min is a former doctor, but he is now a Catholic priest. He performs exorcisms. Meanwhile, Ham Eun Ho is a doctor in the emergency room of a hospital. One day, Oh Soo Min goes to the hospital where Ham Eun Ho works. She gets involved with him.
A young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a gentleman to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until the women discover some unexpected emotions.
Adam Kruk, a 40 year old police officer addicted to painkillers and psychotropic drugs, returns to the town he grew up in to find the paedophile who abused his friend Slawek years ago. Once there, he is unexpectedly called to investigate a new case: the kidnapping of a powerful man's grandson, which he undertakes to help set him free from his past mistakes. As he was unable to protect Slawek, he sees this case as a second chance to protect a child and an opportunity for justice. Adam must control the darkest corners of his mind to solve the kidnapping and as the case unfolds, he discovers answers which will reveal an unexpected link between these two cases.
Song Dianxin, a female general, is betrayed and wrongfully executed. After being reborn, she seeks revenge and ends her engagement. Her fiancé, also reborn, tries to regain her love while uncovering the truth behind their betrayal.
Someone has been stealing money within the company and the fingers are pointing to seven beautiful secretaries. Each who look so pure (well some of them) but at the same time, each can have a motivation for stealing the money. The company hires Ayumu and Go to find out who is stealing the money.
Kim, Franzi, and Marie have what other girls can only dream of: their very own detective club!
Five women, none local and all unknown, have ended up brutally raped, murdered and on the cold steel of the embalming table at the local morgue. Dead-end investigations by the local sheriff's department force the state to send veteran detective Steve McCormack, who, along with rookie Jamie Garrett, fight a battle against time.
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
In 1808, an imperial investigator arrives on an idyllic island to investigate a series of grisly murders. The locals believe that a ghost is responsible, taking revenge for a wrongful execution seven years ago. But the investigator suspects that something else may be behind it all.
Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.
Every town has a devil. For the small community of Braxton, that devil is Tommy Miller. A bullied and tormented teen who finally snapped, killing his friends and family at the annual Braxton town hall party, Miller escaped into the woods, never to be seen or heard from again. Until now. Ten years later, a group of fresh-faced teens find themselves targeted by a masked man in a hooded cloak. It's up to Detective Ryan Fenton and his fish-out-of-water partner to protect the town from Miller's clutches; there's just one issue - Ryan himself is a survivor of the original massacre. Is Miller opening up a new chapter, or has he returned to attend to some unfinished business?
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
A murder case rocks a small town when Julien Monnier is found dead, stabbed near the cave dwellings known as "Les grottes du Régulus." An old book is found beside him. Grace, a police captain, is put in charge of the investigation and discovers similarities with a ten-year-old case: a 17-year-old girl, Sarah, had been found dead, also stabbed, in the same caves. Grâce calls on Alex, her childhood friend who has become an expert in old books. He had investigated Sarah's death when he was a police officer. Alex reluctantly revisits the past and agrees to help, partly to reconnect with Grâce, his lost love. Their reunion rekindles old feelings and painful memories linked to their separation. As the investigation progresses, the memories of the protagonists and suspects become intertwined. Grace and Alex relive their past, but are confronted with conflicting memories and unspoken words.
Narrator Lawrence Dobkin examines unusual paranormal activities and conspiracy theories in several eerie segments. Subjects include flying saucers and alien encounters, the disappearance of Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle and the origins of Bigfoot, telekinesis, witchcraft, and the unusual notion that human evolution and technology might have been moved forward with assistance from intelligent extraterrestrial beings.
In rainy, nocturnal London, photographer Miles obsessively captures unforgiving, morbid portraits of oblivious strangers. When not selling them, he shares them online as 'Rain Catcher'. But soon he notices something unsettling: a mysterious woman watching him and photographing him—turning the lens back on Miles. As her gaze closes in, his world fractures—his work is sabotaged, his name defamed, his loved ones endangered. Consumed by paranoia, he spirals into a dark, delirious obsession to uncover the truth behind her motives. Based on the 2018 short film of the same name.
A serial killer is stalking New York City. Inspector Edward Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.
Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. Although she barely remembers the place, Sarah senses the past may still haunt the home.
Hazel Gray, a young nurse, is in love with Phillip Carson, son of Mrs. Carson-Morgan, a philanthropist.
When a mysterious sound suddenly appears from nowhere, two lovers are forced to take shelter in an underground refuge.
On a relentless quest to avenge his sister's murder, a man from Cape Town infiltrates a sprawling network of lowlifes and elites in Los Angeles.
The holiday romance of Daniel and Marjana is disturbed by a premonition of an imminent fatal event. In this vision, the beloved accompanies her lover on an arduous and wearisome voyage by sea and when the situation seems most desperate, a mysterious ship suddenly appears on the horizon…
Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.