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"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.
In a small town in 1999 a young man disappear. His friends set out on a search and discover some troubling details about their small town.
When a stranger knocking on Rawan’s door ends up jumping from her balcony, her life turns into a quest to unravel this mystery and escape blackmail.
Following an incident that makes him question his future as a doctor, cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Talodkarn decides to go provide government services in Yala. A twist of fate, however, lands him back at his previous hospital.
It depicts the lives of a group of people doing investigative journalism. Unlike most locally produced series about crime, this series departs from the traditional police procedural style and focuses more on investigative journalism and the media.
Saionji Hajime is the perfect butler and he works for a madame who is elegant. The madame is full of curiosity and has a pure personality. Hajime began to work for the madame before her husband died and they share a deep level of trust. One day, they face murder case. The madame holds doubts about the murder case. Hajime uses his great reasoning powers in an attempt to solve the mystery.
A bride is poisoned during her wedding reception, forcing the groom and a photographer to investigate the guests as dark secrets and hypocrisies among the bride's friends and family are revealed.
The series revolves around the social problems that a family suffers from when there is a disabled member in it, and the changes that have occurred in human relationships that have turned for the worse.
A farmer is confronted with dark forces seeping into his rural community, leading to an investigation into the county lines drug cartel.
Riyo is attracted to Kairi, but isn't Kairi a murderer? A love story of a man and a woman carrying the past.
A dead body is found in a storage area. The victim is a woman in her 20's, who ran a small restaurant. Soon after, a 19-year-old man is arrested for murder and abandonment of corpse. Lawyer Daisaburo Kikuchi, who used to be a judge, takes the young man’s case as his lawyer. The case seems to be clear cut, because the man confessed to the crimes. But, things soon change. The man denies the charges at his trial. Lawyer Daisaburo Kikuchi investigates and he soon faces the truth behind the case.
Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody. Private investigator Anna Lee works for the Brierly Security agency after leaving the police force. Each episode features a different mystery.
Year 1920. A well known singer Zinaida Casarosa arrives in a small provincial town with a concert program. Her admirer Svechnikov invites her to sing at an Esperanto club. During the concert she is shot dead by an unknown person. It is Svechnikov's duty to find out the name of the killer. The mystery of her death becomes no less complicated that her life.
Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert Chuck to discuss his options.
Let’s Play Blind is set in the flashy and risky world of gambling. Three rich friends—Mohini, Neeta, and Shanaya—play not just for money but for power & control. And also to fill the voids that exist in their lives. Things change when a mysterious man, Mohak, and his clever partner Kavya join the game with a hidden plan. In private rooms full of secrets, seduction, and lies, hidden cameras record everything—and the real game begins. With every round, the players lose more than just money. Pride, secrets, and even lives are at stake. When murder and blackmail enter the picture, no one knows who to trust. Who’s playing who—and who will survive the Blind Game?
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.
From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” (Ishi no Mayu), and the long-awaited second instalment in the “Murder Analysis Team” (Satsujin Bunseki-han) series.
Two roommates struggle to adapt to a newfound bathroom problem, will they find a way in the face of adversity?
A twisted tale full of murder, mysteries and deceit. The truth is not what it seems to be.
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
The story takes place in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when the great detective Sherlock Holmes (played by Fan Eilly) and his assistant Watson (played by Xu Zhongquan) came to China to play together and stayed at the Xianlai Inn.
After a lengthy absence, a small-town outlaw returns to his hometown, violently obsessed with the notion that his Mother's death was not a suicide.
A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison only to be framed for yet 2 more murders which he did not commit. With the help of his former prison guard, he once again sets out to clear his name
In an abandoned apartment there are former spouses. Barricaded, the husband, thus, trying to escape from the criminals who hunt for compromising photos. But the ex-wife is there not by chance — she is the mistress of one of the kidnappers. But with an unusual date, the former feelings take over, the lovers decide to deceive the bandits and go on the run.
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
A British secret agent takes up the job of solving a dark mystery. He is led into a web of love, deceit and betrayal. His success and failure can change the course of history.
White eggs, wrapped in red thread, are appearing everywhere. On the streets, at press conferences, in fountains, galleries, and restaurants. Nobody knows what they mean, yet everyone is certain they mean something. Elo, a Uruguayan journalist, films one and posts it. What follows is a perfect, self-sustaining machine: media amplifies fear, fear demands more media, and somewhere in the noise, a man jumps off a building. The yolk is on Elo. The eggs... remain eggs. 'Sure As Eggs is Eggs' is a satire about mass hysteria, fake news, and the terrifying ease with which nothing becomes everything.
A seemingly mystical murder takes Captain Sophie Maliquot back to the Mont-Saint-Michel region where she spent part of her childhood and where her father, who died years earlier, is buried.
Two skeptic researchers investigate a mother's claim that an unknown presence may be trying to communicate with her 7-year-old daughter.
In a future police state, a stand-up comic murders a competitor for a job, then gets mixed up with a stripper.
A juxtaposition of two types of alienation: social and spiritual. While the concept itself refers to an estrangement from the self, it also explores how the subject loses their identity to social trends. The film portrays two groups of alienated individuals at different parties: the 'happy' party, where everyone smokes and drinks simply to conform, and the 'sad' party, where alienation is spiritual and intrapersonal. Although their realities differ, both groups hear the same thing: the sound of being alive.
A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing paintings depicting the course of a passionate love affair. But the paintings also seem to reveal startling evidence of a murder. The visitors begin to fear for their lives.
Tom and Alice decide to strengthen their marriage in a romantic cottage, but the road holds surprises and they will depend on the help of the mysterious Senhora H. As the night goes on, the secrets of this marriage are revealed and the only hope of survival for the couple will be to embrace their own madness.
Thisara, the owner of an advertising firm, gets a contract to make a propaganda campaign for the opposition leader Gregory Mahadikaram at the next presidential elections.
An elderly man burdened by repressed sexual urges and erectile dysfunction is haunted by nightmares from his past, until the boundary between dreams and reality begins to blur in his daily life. As the story unfolds, he uncovers a parallel narrative of a young man consumed by past wounds and guilt, trapped in an unending cycle of self-blame.