Siegfried Dennery suffers from life-threatening bronchial asthma. Only in a milder climate could he recover. Dennery purchases land on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He plans to finance the construction of a hotel by selling his nightclub. But everything goes wrong. A Caribbean contact works for his own gain, and the bank refuses to grant the necessary loan. Dennery comes up with a daring plan: he wants to get money by robbing banks...
Explores the phenomenon of phrogging – people secretly living inside someone else’s home and features two first-hand accounts of survivors sharing the most skin-crawling, twisted and truly terrifying stories imaginable. Along with interviews and key archive materials, cinematic recreations bring the clues and confrontations to life.
All cities, even the great ones, harbor dark secrets. Homicide City: Charlotte uncovers the most dramatic murders that have taken place in this southern metropolis.
A man's wife, mother and daughter are the only witnesses of his surprise death and join forces to face their loss and find out what really happened. What seems to be an unexplained suicide or a banal domestic accident could be a murder.
Thomas Randolph has been married six times, and four of his wives are dead. Several died under mysterious circumstances, leading some to call the Nevada man a “Black Widower.” Is Randolph really a calculated killer, or is he simply unlucky in love?
Over the past four and a half decades, the so-called D.B. Cooper skyjacking case has captivated countless armchair detectives - not to mention teams of FBI investigators - hoping to finally crack the nation's only unsolved act of air piracy. Now a California man, who has assembled a team of investigators, thinks he may have finally solved case, which will be detailed in the two-part History Channel special D.B. Cooper: Case Closed? that airs on Sunday and Monday.
While searching for his girlfriend, Xiao Ang crosses paths with a Burmese youth named Wen Dan who also happens to be searching for his family. Together, they become involved in a fight against sinister forces as they struggle to find clues.
Xiao Ang is a retired soldier who used to be a part of the special forces. He goes overseas to find his girlfriend who was abducted by a criminal organization. He encounters Wen Dan who is in a similar situation, and their search brings them to a region in Southeast Asia. In order to save their loved ones and uphold justice, they join hands in a deadly war against the local gangs and warlords. However, the truth that they seek eventually forces them into different paths.
IN PLAIN SIGHT is a riveting whodunit, featuring some of the most disturbing murder cases with the killer hiding in plain sight. The killer can sometimes be featured on TV news reports, interviewed by the media, posts on social media or speaks out in newspaper reports, brazenly showing their face while all the time they had blood on their hands.
This is a Swedish remake based on The Scarf, the British original from 1959 (script : Francis Durbridge). The English script was translated to Swedish by Ulla Berthel and Börje Lindell. The Swedish version retains the English setting.
A gang of robbers misplaces their loot of gold bars in the wrong car. After a while both the gang and their new unwitting accomplice find themselves chased both by other criminals who want a cut and the police.
Three friends Pargat, Goldy, and Jeeta, shift to Chandigarh and look out for ways to make easy money. They get involved in illegal activities. Their lives take a gripping turn when they kill the accomplice of Balbir, a well-connected man who is now after them, to take revenge.
A woman falls overboard during a rafting trip in Skagafjörður, hits her head on a rock and later dies without having gained consciousness. Her mother contacts Einar and tells him she was murdered. Einar finds this hard to believe but starts investigating anyway, more as as sop to the old lady, whom he likes, than on suspicion of finding anything suspicious. Shortly afterwards a charismatic young man disappears and Einar gets orders to write up a story about the investigation, while also covering a problem with politics and hooliganism in a village a few hour’s drive from Akureyri. His investigation leads to interesting facts about the young man, who was not all he seemed to be, and also about the dead woman’s husband. At the same time Einar finds himself embroiled in two separate family dramas with quite different outcomes.