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CID officer Man Kiu-Pak is a man who achieves meritorious deeds by fluke and is promoted to inspector. Opportunistic reporter Gai Wing-Yin appears to be a blissful wife, but she is actually troubled by finances and is stuck between her daughter and second husband. The honest, dumb thief Cheung Hak works hard to be a good person but is forced to do desperate acts for a living. When Cheung Hak and his associates carry out a kidnapping, they abduct the wrong person. This abduction causes these characters' lives to converge, but when more lives are lost, the kidnapping case grows increasingly complicated and secrets gradually come to the surface.
When reality begins to feel unstable, Liam Garcia finds himself caught between what is real and what lies beneath. As strange events start to unfold around him, his perception of the world and of himself begins to shift. With his sister Gosia by his side, he is drawn into a growing darkness that refuses to be ignored.
Six months ago, life went dark for the underworld negotiator Kida when his lifelong friend and fellow former outcast Makoto became embroiled in a deadly plot. Makoto had risen to become the head of a powerful trading firm, but the events that unfolded on Christmas Eve put an end to all that. Since then, Kida has continued to drift through life without a single bright spark to light up his life. Nobody cares if he lives or dies except his underworld boss, who values Kida’s inimitable skills.
Fi Lawson arrives home one day to find a family of strangers moving into her house and her husband, Bram, has disappeared. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime and how they each are going to survive the chilling truth.
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?
An arrogant IT tycoon is reincarnated as a struggling dry cleaner in the past, using his future knowledge to find his killer while rediscovering his humanity.
A faithful Horse, a Cunning Dog, a Lively Cat — that's what they called each other since childhood. They are Interpol officer Sergei Ordyntsev, the "oligarch" Alexander Serebrovsky and Konstantin Boyko, the Olympic biathlon champion. Once upon a time, three classmates played Indians and thought that their friendship would last a lifetime.
Estranged couple, Emman and Celine, is brought together by the disappearance of their son, Robbie, only to find the love that they have lost in the past.
A gifted criminal profiler lost someone important to him while he was helping the police solve a bizarre campus serial killing. The lost crippled his mind and left him unable to profile again. But when another serial killing threatened the city, he had to confront his inner demon in order to track down the serial killer.
In 1890s Canada, a police inspector applies the latest scientific methods of deduction, much to the chagrin of his superiors.
Kisaragi Nana, who lived quietly in a suburban house while earning a living at an online shop that handles imported furniture and miscellaneous goods, lives with her fiance Sato Ryo. However, Ryo suddenly changes and becomes violent. Afterwards, she strangles Ryo. She hides the corpse in an old freezer in the storeroom and her free life would soon begin, however...
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus while two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Horror Theater Unbalance is a 1973 Japanese Anthology television series created by Tsuburaya and Fuji TV to air on the Fuji TV network on Monday Nights for 13 episodes. Originally started in production in 1969, it was shelved and took years for its airing debut to begin its broadcast, before production was eventually completed at the end of 1972. It was then aired on Fuji TV in 1973.
Kiyoka Kuromi, a housekeeper with a hidden agenda, is determined to create the "ideal family" at any cost. Assigned to the seemingly perfect Haibara family, she quickly bonds with them, but her obsession drives her to take increasingly extreme and unethical actions in her pursuit of perfection.
Welcome to Sleuth 101 – the whodunit game show with a comedic twist, hosted by the effervescent Cal Wilson. As elementary as Watson, Cal's job is to guide the guest detective, keep forensics on their feet and occasionally drop the odd cryptic clue. Each week Cal is joined by a special guest comedian, who is given a crash course in criminology.
Pan, a desolate plastic surgeon, lived a repetitive and boring life every day until a conspiracy happened. He woke up in an abandoned factory, and found that someone had replaced his identity with a face exactly like him. His world has been completely overturned and left in a perilous situation. Can he overcome the difficulties and peel away the truth? How would he regain his identity?
43-year old Yuri is a successful psychiatrist and hypnotist. A raving and committed non-believer, he is capable of rationalizing anything…except for his own nightmares. In his dreams, he sees his ex-wife who, many years ago, committed suicide, which was partially his fault. A red-headed woman he doesn't know. And a strange symbol that looks like an infinity sign. Because of insomnia, Yuri is used to spending his night hours getting drunk at a strip joint, and at times he drags dancers to his home. During one of his visits, he meets a new young dancer named Anya and suddenly finds himself getting attached to her. A mother of a small boy tormented by nightmares turns to Yuri for help. As he tries to untangle this case, Yuri begins to find evidence that reincarnation exists. And the boy gives him a clue to the mystery of his own nightmares.
After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams - visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother's past that is finally revealing itself.
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei (Shinji Takeda) is on death row. He killed four women twelve years ago. During his murdering spree, he sent pictures of his decapitated victims with flower decoration to the police. The murders and photos caused widespread panic in Japan. One day, Ippei is contacted by Daigo from prison. He asks Ippei if he wants to interview him and write his memoirs. Soon, more women are killed in the same grisly manner as the serial murders from twelve years ago. Now, Ippei becomes the prime suspect of the police and Ippei must quickly find the real murderer. Based on the novel "The Serialist" by David Gordon (published by Simon & Schuster; Original edition on March 9, 2010).
A woman who has selective amnesia loses her husband to a car accident. Overwhelmed with sorrow, she traces his journey and faces the unexpected truth.
"Tachiguishi", that is to say, grifters who make it their profession to "eat-and-run", was created by the world-famous filmmaker, Mamoru Oshii. In 2006, he directed "Tachigui -- the Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters", a feature film which was made using a new technique called superlive-mation. It combined fact and fiction to tell daring stories of professional grifters, leaving viewers with a feeling of nostalgia for the Showa era. Following that, another movie has been completed. This new live-action film, "Eat and Run - 6 Beautiful Grifters" was made with the objective of filming its main actresses as beautifully as possible. The film is made up of six episodes directed by five different directors who rose to the challenge, two of which star Oshii himself.
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer uncovers their royal lineage and inheritance, the brothers’ fate intertwines in unexpected ways.
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Attorney turned therapist Hailey Dean is pulled into another investigation when a popular new dating app links multiple missing persons cases from around the city. Reuniting with her old team, Hailey discovers the potential dangers of online interaction, and must track down a killer before anyone else gets hurt.
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
Following a shocking find in an old friend’s basement, TV host Billie Blessings works with new-to-town detective Tyrell Hunter to unearth a dark secret that threatens to unravel the lives of the most powerful people in her city.
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.
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.
Aurora Teagarden’s post-college days when she finds herself back home in Lawrenceton. While her mother, Aida, struggles to keep her newfound real estate business, Aurora supports herself by working as a teacher’s assistant in a crime fiction class, and waitresses at the local diner at night, where she shares her love of researching true crime with her friend Sally and police officer Arthur. When Sally’s fiancé doesn’t show up at their wedding rehearsal, Maid of Honor Aurora gets Arthur to help her search for him. When they discover a body, everyone assumes it is Sally’s tardy groom, but when it turns out to be someone else, Sally’s fiancé becomes the main suspect.
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.