The story takes place on a quiet peninsula away from Buenos Aires, where more than the first generation of Russian Old Believers live, preserving their language, faith and way of life. The main characters are real opposites: she is an Old Believer who lives by the rules of the community, and he is a policeman, an emigrant from Russia, who knows no mercy for criminals. They were not destined to meet, but their paths crossed…
Boris Krylov is a top-class criminologist. In his work, he uses paradoxical and non-obvious methods that help him unravel even the most complex crimes, for which his colleagues call him a modern Sherlock Holmes. Due to a divorce from his wife, a brilliant detective leaves the police and makes a living as a consultant on the set of detective series. But when his father, a famous surgeon, dies in a car accident, and he himself is seriously injured, Krylov begins his own investigation. My instinct tells me that the accident was planned: before his death, his father tried to tell him something. So Boris returns to his profession and gets a job as an expert in the investigative department, which is headed by Major Anna Voskresenskaya. Anna was once a student of Krylov. Now Krylov and Voskresenskaya will have to work together. While solving crimes, the heroes deal with their past and feelings for each other.
The Murder Game was a British reality television series that aired on BBC One from March through May 2003. The show was based on the American FOX television show Murder in Small Town X. Though classified as a reality television series, it was more accurately a hybrid of reality TV, game show, and mystery drama. The series was narrated by Rupert Smith. Although there was no host in the traditional sense the Chief, Bob Taylor, acted as a sort of host for the show.
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 five-part true-crime docudrama uncovers real cases where wives kill their husbands. The series dives deep into how love, control, betrayal and hidden marital fractures can lead to fatal breakdowns
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.
1944. According to information obtained from a recruited German agent, a major act of sabotage is being planned in the Murmansk port, through which the USSR receives vital military cargo from the allies along the northern route. Counterintelligence officers Sergey Saburov and Elena Soley have a new dangerous mission, to prevent large-scale sabotage in the Murmansk seaport, find and neutralize the enemy.
Tyler and Alyson Ronan, who reunite after being apart for 10 years while leading very different lives. Set in a fictional Alaskan town, the twins unravel the memories of their younger years while cleaning out their childhood home to be sold.
Three-part thriller serial by Francis Durbridge. BBC. BAFTA winner Peter Barkworth stars in this captivating BBC murder mystery as Guy Foster, a journalist turned wannabe novelist who finds himself ensnared in a puzzling homicide case when he's framed for the brutal murder of his wife. Facing a life sentence, Guy races against the clock and launches his own investigation into the slaying, only to discover that he's at the center of a twisted web of intrigue and deceit.