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Cuando seis niños superdotados desaparecen alrededor del globo, una investigación revela experimentación genética, financiamiento dudoso y la desaparición de un asistente de investigación.
En búsqueda de pruebas sobre el Éxodo, la Arqueólogo Biblica Lynne Raven conoce al enigmático heredero multimillonario Connor Mackenzie. Mientras la cercanía entre ambos crece, un perturbador vínculo con los secuestros y un pasado plagado de secretos,...
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Luego del brutal asesinato de su familia, el exagente de las Fuerzas Especiales Británicas John Steel llega a Nueva York con un propósito: encontrar a la persona de la fotografía.
La sensata detective del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York, Samantha McCall está investigando un triple homicidio cuando aparece Steel para ayudar a encontrar al criminal y llevarlo a la justicia. Lo que en principio parece ser el trabajo de un asesino serial,...
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Después de que la familia de un oficial de policía es tomada como rehén, se enfrenta a una elección mortal: uno de los miembros de su familia vivirá y el otro morirá. Debe tomar la decisión, y el tiempo se acaba.
Los investigadores de homicidios Vincent Falcone y Farrah Richards toman el caso, y se forma un equipo. Se hace todo lo posible para atrapar al psicópata antes del próximo asesinato. El asesino comete errores; es casi como si ser...
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El exitoso abogado y recientemente electo congresista Brian Madsen tiene una hermosa esposa y una gran carrera por delante. Ha hecho todo bien.
Hasta ahora.
Durante la reunión inaugural, un beso de felicitación de parte de una dedicada trabajadora de campaña se convierte en un apasionado romance. Espera sentirse culpable, pero en cambio, se ve involucrado en un asunto amoroso y su destino está sellado. Una simple decisión en un momento de pasión...
5) Boceto
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Cuando una chica local llamada Misty es encontrada muerta en un búnker subterráneo, el pueblo se ve envuelto en un torbellino de pánico y especulación. Los tiempos son difíciles, pero la comunidad espaciada de granjeros se une como una, tratando de descubrir quién es el culpable.
Lanzados en medio del caos está un grupo de adolescentes: alborotadores locales, pero con buen corazón. Aunque son inocentes, los agentes de la ley locales creen...
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La detective Veronika Heydrich tiene una misión que completar antes de conseguir su codiciada promoción: descubrir la verdad detrás del "Rey de los Hoboes", un hombre que se enorgullece de ayudar a las personas sin hogar de Nueva York.
Convencido de que es más peligroso que servicial, Veronika se infiltra y descubre de primera mano las pruebas y tribulaciones que los pobres deben soportar. Mientras más se sumerge, más peligro encuentra Veronika....
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Among a family picnic in Presley Park strides a man with the worst intentions. In the center of a leafy suburb, everyone is having fun until the unthinkable happens. The man walks into the middle of the picnic ground seemingly unnoticed and, without warning, opens fire into the startled crowd. People collapse, wounded and dying. Those who can, flee for their lives. Who is this madman and why is he here? And when stakes are high, who will become a...
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Forensic Analyst Clare Rosser has focused her career on becoming a detective, and solving the mystery of her parents' murder. When a series of grisly murders leaves bodies twisted and bereft of fluid in a mummy-like state, one fact becomes apparent: the monster that killed her parents ten years ago has returned. Fighting the bureaucracy of her own police department, as well as her own prejudices and ailing body, Clare must take matters into her own...
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Cuando dos hombres enmascarados toman un concurrido banco de Los Ángeles a plena luz del día, la policía, SWAT y los medios cubren todos los ángulos visibles del banco. A pesar de cientos de ojos en el banco, casi un millón de dólares, y los propios ladrones, desaparecen sin dejar rastro.
Los detectives de LAPD Stacey Gray y Jeff Butler comienzan a investigar el caso que desafía la lógica sin pistas y poca evidencia. Pronto, los secretos...
10) Wolf Man
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One beautiful woman. One underworld conspiracy. One silver bullet.
Photojournalist Steve Lurgan returns from the War in Kosovo, and falls in love with a Serbian national in modern-day NYC.
Meanwhile, Jana Dragana's career is being compromised by her drug addiction, but her exploiters end up as victims of a mysterious attack.
NYPD detective Darko Lucic suspects the murders are part of a larger conspiracy. But is it an underground network of criminals...
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Angela Murphy has just started as a detective on the mean streets of Glasgow, when the mutilated corpse of a young prostitute is discovered in a squalid apartment. Called to investigate the grisly murder, Angela is both shocked and surprised. To her boss, Frank Martin, there's something horribly familiar about the scene. He has seen it before. With limited resources and lacking experience, Angela is desperate to prove herself. But is it really the...
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Former intelligence expert Darren Priest tries to distance himself from his old life, and turns to a new vocation as a wine and food writer.
He quickly discovers that some things you can't un-volunteer for. Called to Vienna by the U.S. President, Priest undertakes a covert mission where friend quickly turns into foe.
With numerous enemies threatening his mission, can Priest figure out whom to trust – and keep the Vienna Connection a secret?
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What do you do when grief slams you in the gut and brings you to your knees?Jenny Jasik's life changes in an instant, when her son is killed in an automobile accident. She is a Confidential Informant: an undercover member of a drug task force.Jenny only reports to her supervisor, Detective Steve Morrity, and can never tell anyone else what she's doing. There are days she is not sure she can hold it all together.But when she looks into the face of...
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After cardiologist John Brown is incarcerated in a private prison in Miami, he and his cellmates learn firsthand how the private prison system works in Florida. Meanwhile, Nicole Rodriguez and her team at the Miami Post start digging into the prison industry, and the leadership of Homestead Correctional Facility. Soon, they discover a complex web of corruption that runs deeper than they could have ever expected. As John and Nicole's paths cross, the...
15) Kiss of Life
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Every night, Alan Dexter has the same dream: his former colleague Christina is seducing him when suddenly, two of her perfectly white teeth turn into fangs and tear into his flesh. Dexter is always the skeptical journalist, but his feeling that Christina must be in danger only grows when he discovers she disappeared over two months ago in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains. What evil still lurks in the heart of Transylvania?
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The nightmares never cease. Ever since I was a child I have struggled to deal with them. Each night a different horror takes shape, and I see it as if I was there. I wake from these terrifying dreams of another world in which I am running from the strangest visions of evil. Visions that can only exist in nightmares, yet they are all too real to me. Christian Sands is an FBI agent with a unique ability. When his ViCAP unit takes on another serial killer...
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Luego de la muerte de su padre, Sabrina Brooks, la heredera de Brooks Chemical Company, debe reacomodar toda su vida, pieza por pieza. Con acceso a archivos gubernamentales ultra-secretos y conocimientos de química, Sabrina confeccionará sus propias armas y se convertirá en la justiciera conocida como Nightcrawler.
Con la ayuda del oficial Hoyt Wexford de la policía de Nueva York, Sabrina librará una batalla contra la pandilla de traficantes...
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Be careful what you wish for. Stage illusionist Charlie Chilton's career is a failure. When the mysterious Asmodeus Tchort offers him a deal of a lifetime, it looks like he's on a fast track to become the most famous illusionist in the world. The promised success soon follows, but something evil now stalks Charlie's path. He is haunted by savage nightmares, and gruesome murders dog his trail as he tours his controversial new act around the country....
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Cuando el tren de medianoche de Manchester a Liverpool se acerca a la ciudad, golpea el cuerpo de un hombre. Después de que la policía investiga el caso, se dan cuenta de que el hombre era un conocido director de cine, de la variedad adulta.
Pronto, descubren que la lista de enemigos del hombre es casi tan larga como la línea de ferrocarril de Manchester a Liverpool, con dos ex esposas que tienen motivos para asesinar.
¿Pero es su asesinato...
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Escondido en las sombras de Glastonbury Tor se encuentra un antiguo secreto.
Contratado por el millonario Malcolm Capshaw para buscar un artefacto legendario, Joe Cutler y su equipo de Strata Survey Systems se ven envueltos en una red de mentiras, asesinatos y traiciones.
Se revela que el artefacto es falso, y el verdadero propósito de su búsqueda se expone lentamente. Una presencia amenazante, en la forma de una antigua familia criminal de Londres,...
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