The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells is a 2016 horror-fantasy television miniseries, based on short stories by H. G. Wells. The four-part series of 30-minute episodes was commissioned for broadcast by Sky Arts. The series is hosted by Ray Winstone as Wells.
Policeman Kong Xueli and coroner Fang Dong debunk supernatural hoaxes using science and logic. But when a wave of eerie crimes grips the city, they must uncover the truth behind the terror. Along the way, Kong Xueli teams up with a bold restaurant owner, and together, they fight to restore peace.
Anna Vorontsova, or, as her colleagues in the investigative committee called her, the Crow, has been refusing for three weeks to open a case on the disappearance of a famous Bohemian photographer. By a fateful coincidence, this man dies. Now, tormented by the pangs of conscience, the heroine sets her task to sort out this case at all costs.
The disappearance of a bus through the Komar mountains triggers a chain of events revealing a network of secrets, hidden forces, and power that transcends reality. At the center is a young journalist, Mersiha, who must decide how far she is willing to go.
Two children at a crime scene. One is guilty; the other, a witness. 25 years later, one is trying to forget, while the second one will never be able to.
A driven elite lawyer, estranged from her fearful daughter and cheating husband, teams up with her rival to prevent her child's fatal accident by unraveling a 15-year-old mystery that reveals chilling ties between her family's collapse and the tragedy she's desperate to stop.
When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young woman found in an abandoned car. There are several suspects: Lorrimer's subordinate, Clifford Bradley, who despises him; the new head of the laboratory, Maxim Howarth, who is jealous of his sister's relationship with him; a colleague, Paul Middlemass, who had a fight with Lorrimer. There is also a gruff and likely unethical policeman who was on the grounds of the laboratory at the time of the killing and a local pathologist who is raising his two young children after his wife leaves him for another man. When one of the suspects is also murdered, Dalgliesh learns a key piece of information.
In emblematic places around the world, Frédéric Lenoir, philosopher, sociologist and writer, goes to meet those who experience a spiritual quest, both religious and secular. A pilgrimage that mixes the voices of anonymous witnesses and personalities such as the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, the apneist Guillaume Néry and the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves.
A devoted university student's idol obsession takes a dark turn when he shelters his wounded celebrity crush after her scandalous romance makes headlines, only to uncover her hidden split personality and suspected involvement in a musician's murder—forcing him to choose between love and truth in a dangerous descent into twisted loyalty.
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his offbeat personal assistant and lover, while Inspector Cadogan is their police contact and Professor Owen Griffiths is Cornelius's head of department.
Budding metropolitan investigator Oleg Khlebnikov kills a criminal during detention. Oleg is sure that the villains should be punished not only by the court. The deceased turns out to be a media person, and in order to hush up the scandal, his death is called an accident, and Khlebnikov is sent to the taiga city to sit out the watch, and soon return to Moscow. It won't work on a quiet business trip.