On a freezing December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk and was never seen again. As the entire country watched, newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett turned up enough evidence to see his suspect hanged and was hailed a hero by the people of Scardale. More than four decades later, the lingering cloud left by the missing body of Alison Carter compels controversial filmmaker Catherine Heathcote to turn her camera to Bennett.
Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a weekly American television newsmagazine series. It was previously the network's flagship newsmagazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasional editions that focus on other topics.
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
Five aspiring lawyers are aiming for the top - but behind the scenes they're a mess of love, drugs and excess.
After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they’ve come back to life in new bodies they don’t recognize.
Angela's comfortable London existence implodes when she recognizes domestic mistreatment. A detective unveils her spouse's ominous mysteries, disorienting Angela. Craving freedom, she abandons routine for a dangerous truth-chase.
When a wild night at the notorious Paradise Seven party ends with Bam found dead, famous spirit medium Phing is pulled into a twisted murder mystery involving four prime suspects. Lieutenant Dan takes charge of the investigation, secrets, lies, and suspicions collide, and Phing must piece together the truth from fractured memories—both living and dead—before the killer gets away.
After his brother’s mysterious death in a financial scandal, Hao Qing teams up with hacker Jia Yu and wealthy heir Zhang Xiaoshao to infiltrate a corrupt empire. Together, they work to expose fraud, money laundering, and deception, to bring the mastermind to justice and restore hope to an orphanage.
Qi Heng, vice president of the Qizhou Intermediate People's Court, took over the complicated "fishing boat murder case" as soon as he took office and peeled back the survivors' testimony to find loopholes in them. At the same time, Luo Huai Gong's "Jiang Yun Chemical Group'," causes the villagers living near the factory to suffer from terminal illness. Soon, both cases will connect together in an unexpected way.
Thriller series set in a parallel Great Britain run by a fascist dictatorship
David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.
Ripley Holden is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade. The opening extravaganza is overshadowed by the find of a dead body on the premises. DI Carlisle is called in and quickly finds he has more on his mind than murder, when he falls in love with Ripley's long-suffering wife.
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Everyone is hiding something. It may be a harmless secret or it might be something far more serious. In this spellbinding series, hear stories of murder investigations that gradually exposed one truth after another, until everyone's truths are laid bare. There are little white lies, and then there are the lies that kill.
Do you think you have already known everything about the dark-faced Judge Bao? Well, think again. Jian Lin Tian Xia presents you with a brand new look at this impartial and incorruptible judge in a way that you have never ever dreamt of before. Among the tons of costume dramas produced in mainland China, this title is the very first attempt at a light yet thought-provoking subject revolving around a circle of young people. Believe it or not, Justice Bao here has to compete with his sidekick Zhan Zhao for the favor of a woman standing out with her exoticism. Also, Wang Chao and Ma Han, who are the bodyguards of Bao, are caught up in a plot remarkably similar to the award-winning Hong Kong movie Internal Affairs. Many more contemporary hot issues ranging from the bird flu, the drug problems to even the news on the football fields, can also be located in this innovative production.
Working for nearly three decades with the Charlotte (N.C.) Police Department, Detective Gary McFadden has developed unorthodox methods that have helped him solve more than 700 homicide cases. He has a 90-percent success rate with the investigations he pursues. "I Am Homicide" shows how Detective McFadden uses his street smarts to work the neighborhood networks and gather critical information for leads, at times risking his life by trusting the streets he calls home.
Provence, Summer 1982. French highscoolers and their german exhange students hold a spiritualism seance. Shortly afterwards, a series of tragic events befell the village. Could they have awakened an evil spirit? The youngsters embark on an investigation into the origins of the evil that has struck their families.
A ruthless cop and a kind doctor—one kills, one heals. As they grow closer, they face crime, warlords, and buried secrets that test their bond.
An accidental killing leads a man down a dark hole of intrigue and murder. Just as he finds love and freedom, one phone call brings back the nightmare.
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.