Flip is a series of four short stories, each, telling the tale of one or many occurrences that cause a complete 180 degree turn around in the people, situations or perspectives inhabiting that tale.
Seekers is a four-part TV mini-series released in 1992 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers... another wife. They team up to search for him. It starred Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, and was written by the celebrated novelist and screenwriter Lynda La Plante who also wrote the book of the same name. It was produced by Sarah Lawson.
A hiker is found dead in a remote forest that is popularly known as the "Murder Hole". Opposite the victim is a melting snowman with one eye missing. The start of a series of murders in the forest area near Freudenstadt. The handwriting is always the same: all victims show frostbite, while the left eye is covered with a black gem. The investigative team Maris Bächle and Konrad Diener has Florentin Sneelin in its sights, a reproductive doctor who lives in a romantic moated castle whose ice cellar not only stores champagne. The suspect knew the victims from a stay in a children's home many years ago. The teachers there enforced discipline and order using sometimes sadistic methods. Their wards did the same. There was a strict caste system among the children. Sneelin belonged to the lowest caste. He was a so called "Snow Child", one that his mother wanted "to foist" on his father.
La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2.
When Shen Qing Mei's brother's accidentally disappeared, she disguised herself as a man and became a magistrate in his stead. Unbeknownst to her, this led to a murder.
The first assassin in the jungle, "Bloodless", is ordered to assassinate Shen Qing Mei, but he is not good at it. After losing his memory, he is taken as Xie Lin Zhou, a scholar who stays by Shen Qing Mei's side and becomes a master. Shen Qing Mei does not know Xie Lin Zhou's identity as an assassin but only wants to help him recover his memory. So a love story between a killer and a target, a master and a magistrate, unfolds.
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Something strange happened after an autistic girl is involved in a car accident. Su Tang survives the crash only to realize that her brain has developed to an extremely high intellectual level and all of her senses have become so powerful that she is able to observe and detect the minutest details. Su Tang begins to use her newfound powers to help the police solve the most difficult or bizarre cases. But why do all of these strange cases seem to somehow lead back to one mysterious person, and could Su Tang herself be involved somehow?
"Cat Hiring" is a drama that features cute pets, sweet love and suspense. The story revolves around a "cat-hiring shop" in Lin'an, Southern Song Dynasty. When she was young, the proprietress Zhang Qiao'er learned some cat-training skills from the artisans who came and went in the teahouse. Since she opened the cat shop, families in the city who needed cat slaves would go to the shop and hire cats to take home according to the procedures. Unexpectedly, a major case in the city involved the proprietress Zhang Qiao'er, and she got to know Ma Qingshan, an honest young constable in Lin'an Prefecture.
As the case goes deeper, Zhang Qiaoer's other identity is slowly revealed. It turns out that she is a well-known "little thief cat" among the people and the one that Ma Qingshan has been chasing. The two develop feelings for each other during the chase, and eventually they work together to find the murderer behind the scenes and protect Lin'an City.
Twisted Tales is an Australian television Anthology and Mystery drama which screened on the Nine Network in 1996. Each episode was narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the follow-up series, Two Twisted, in 2006. Each episode of the series contains a twist ending.
David Martos works undercover to exhume an uncatalogued Civil War mass grave where he believes his family may be buried, based on the seemingly delusional stories his grandfather told him.