At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...
A stranger claims to be Phu’s lover from another universe. It sounds crazy—until Phu’s heart starts to believe him.
Spain, 1981: When armed men hold up a bank and take hundreds hostage, a reporter races against the authorities to uncover the true motive for the heist.
Based on Deon Meyer's 2004 best-selling novel of the same name - centres on Detective Benny Grissel, tasked with tracking down a righteous vigilante killer whose crimes capture the city's imagination.
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
Charming tennis player Lysander Hawkley seduces wealthy, married women to make their husbands jealous, leading to romantic and comedic chaos in the fictional county of Rutshire.
During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.
Act of Will is a four-part 1989 British television serial directed by Don Sharp, based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1986 novel of the same name. Three beautiful women – grandmother, mother and daughter – struggle bravely through five eventful decades of hidden love, high drama and sudden death. From 1926 to present day, from the Yorkshire Dales to London, Paris and New York, how each woman commits an act of will that changes their life and world.
A bank lost 17 billion in money. Upon investigation, this theft was merely a door to reveal a more horrifying collapse of the bank, related to the 1998 monetary crisis and the upcoming presidential nomination.
Lu Xiao, the brilliant and composed captain of the Haigang Police, has built a reputation for cracking even the most complex cases. But when a mysterious “Water Ghost” killer and a floating corpse case leave him baffled, he finds an unexpected ally in his new roommate, Fang Yitong. Together, they form an unlikely partnership to track down the elusive murderer.
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.
The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. The events depicted in the series are based upon the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin titled The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga. The series aired across three nights, an earned an Emmy and Golden Globe.
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Pegasus Bookstore is going through hard times due to competition from internet bookstores. Kitamura Aki and Nishioka Riko are employees at Pegasus Bookstore. Aki is 23 years old. She has a strong will and freewheeling personality. She places her job and dreams above marriage. Riko is a 40-year-old single woman. She is the vice-manager at the bookstore. She has pride in her work. The two women have completely different personalities.
A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives.
In the late 1990s, amid state enterprise reforms, a factory worker, Jiao Tongsheng, dies under suspicious circumstances, and evidence of corruption disappears. His daughter, Shuangsheng, works to uncover the truth and risks everything to expose the killer and help bring him to justice.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Yun Hongshen unknowingly chases after his father's killer, only to fall into a trap set by "Black Butler," a Japanese spy who had been undercover in China for 15 years. With the help of a close family friend and guidance from the Communist Party, Yun Hongshen joins forces with patriotic youth Wen Yeming to expose the spies hidden within the Nationalist army. Together, they set intricate counter-traps, overcoming personal vendettas to help turn the tide of war.
In 1930s Shanghai, young Su Xian is raised by her single mother, Hui. A chance encounter with film company owner Boss Meng changes Su Xian's life, as he exploits her innocence and dreams of stardom, only to abandon her when war strikes, leaving her pregnant. Devasted, Hui dies in sorrow, and Su Xian's only hope is her daughter, Su Zhi. By the 1950s, Su Zhi has grown up and fallen in love with her classmate, Zou Jie, but their relationship faces obstacles due to their complicated family backgrounds.