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41) Crown jewel
Author
Series
Simon Riske novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
International spy Simon Riske connects a series of crimes in Monte Carlo's most lavish casinos to a brutal plot by an organization of criminal gamblers.
Monte Carlo's casinos have become the targets of an efficient, brutal, and highly successful group of criminal gamblers; a casino dealer has been beaten to death; a German heiress's son has been kidnapped. Simon Riske knows the area well from his time as a thrill-seeking thief. Now he is a man who...
43) New Tricks
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
A team of seemingly over-the-hill detectives investigate previously unsolved cases in this crime drama. From the discovery of a new motive in the killing of a college lecturer, to the tracing of a missing child, the team finds a way through the detail that eluded the original officers. But they are finding a surprising incidence of cover-up and conspiracy in their new investigations. Are their superiors about to close ranks? Or is someone feeding...
44) 12 Angry Men
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Description
Life is in their hands...death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
45) Persistence
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Language
Español
Description
Human bodies don't simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as persons. These only return to their homes if they are identified as dead. An audiovisual journey through Mexico's landscapes of disappearance, between mass graves and fragments, affected families and forensic anthropologists. In search for the human that remains,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Blood Brotherhoods John Dickie examines the myths surrounding the three largest and most violent mafia groups in Italy--the Camorra, Cosa Nostra, and 'ndrangheta--divulging the secrets, histories and documents of the real stories behind the Honored Society's most brutal crimes. Each of these brotherhoods has its own methods, its own dark rituals, its own style of ferocity and corruption. Yet violence is only the beginning. The mafias have corrupted...
47) Infamous
Publisher
Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
Oscar-nominated writer Douglas McGrath (Emma, Bullets Over Broadway) chronicles the story behind In Cold Blood, celebrated author Truman Capote's greatest work, a book that would bring him fame, respect and, ultimately, lead to his destruction--Infamous. Early 1960s. Capote (Toby Jones--Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) travels to Kansas to research the cold-blooded murders of a local family. But what begins as an investigative journey with...
48) True Confessions
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Description
Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall deliver riveting performances as siblings embroiled in a shocking homicide investigation. Detective Tom Spellacy (Duvall) and Father Desmond Spellacy (De Niro) find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brother... and rock...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Second series of the light hearted crime drama and ratings smash hit. Hardboiled PI Frank and his rookie sidekick Lu have formed the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate crime and misdemeanours in Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-on-Avon. Series 2 will see Frank and Lu investigate kidnapped canines, locked room mysteries, dead ringers and doppelgängers, vice, fraud, extortion and identity theft.
50) Respect the Jux
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
A corrupted young man ventures to the United States in quest of the American Dream, and forms a band of robbers to obtain it.
51) Cold
Publisher
Whistle TV
Language
English
Description
16-year-old Isla Wallis receives the shock of her young life when she discovers that her real father is in prison for killing the mother she never knew. Furious at having been lied to, Isla runs away to the remote mining town where she was born.
53) Confession
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An up-and-coming district attorney takes on the case of a young woman who has accused three men of sexual assault, putting her career and her life on the line in the process.
54) Accused
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Set in a busy local magistrates' court, each episode visits Courtroom One to meet the defendant and hear his/her story - what drove them to commit the crime, whether they are innocent or guilty... Also on view are the regular staff who run the court - defence and prosecution lawyers, clerks, security guards, ushers and the magistrates who must decide each Accused's fate.
55) Difret
Publisher
Haile Addis Pictures
Language
Amharic
Description
This Sundance Audience Award winner executive produced by Angelina Jolie is about a young lawyer who travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
56) Jamesy Boy
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
A young gang member turns his life around in prison, thanks to the friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Now that Lu has passed her private investigator exams and Frank's tidied himself up a bit, there's no stopping them. But murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity still abound in the pretty tourist town of Stratford-upon-Avon. An ageing heavy metal star with a pact with the devil. A Shakespeare museum full of deadly secrets. A King Lear story set in a carpet warehouse. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard, where low-life criminals get caught up in...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Comedy drama about private detectives who investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon. Private inspector Frank Hathaway has always worked alone. But Frank isn't doing so well. He's out of shape and low on cash. Frank needs a partner. Frank needs ex-hairdresser and people-person Lu. He just doesn't know it yet. The two eventually join forces and form a highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detecting duo. Frank and Lu quickly discover that all is not...
60) The Locksmith
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Roland Pierce is a locksmith and proud of it. He is an honest craftsman, unlike his apprentice Barry who was born to party. Roland's ex-wife is injured by an intruder, and so he decides to track down the culprit. But when he takes the law into his own hands, the consequences will haunt him for the rest of his life.
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