1895. The name of the famous Moscow lawyer Nikolai Andronov, who has not lost a single trial yet, thunders throughout Russia. His friends Victor Rocevic and Michael Zavarzin – also brilliant lawyers. They win in the most complex criminal cases, sometimes not only justifying their clients, but also exposing the true criminals right in the courtroom. In difficult situations, lawyer friends always come to each other's aid. They are still quite young (the eldest, Nikolai Andronov, is only 35 years old). All three are completely different, but everyone is ready to sacrifice a lot for the sake of friends... Their long-term friendship, and the realization that there is someone to count on in a difficult situation – not least, makes all three winners. Both in professional and personal life.
The series presents three separate stories, each containing five episodes, revolving around a mysterious crime that needs to be solved. This leads to a series of investigations that reveal mysterious and shocking secrets and details, as well as intertwined human relationships.
This is a story about duplicity, deception and the search for ambiguous truth. This is a multi-layered tale about justice --- or how it is understood by a maze of people whose lives are intertwined with one another whether consciously or unconsciously because of their unspoken if not unconscious affiliations.
Cruise Ship Killers is a true crime series that tells the stories of people who never returned home after taking a holiday on a cruise ship, featuring interviews with family, friends, investigators and experts.
On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in untraceable cash. The robbery had been so brilliantly planned and executed that police were left without a single clue–and so strict was the robbers’ code of silence that not even the underworld was aware of their identities.
The disappearance of a teenager is the starting point of an investigation that will bring to light the dark side of a small village by the sea. False tracks, hidden truths and secret relationships - nothing is quite what it seems.
In a big city with the soul of a small town in the depths of California, after a terrible shooting in a hotel makes the Ramirez family question everything they know about their city: Bakersfield.
The troubled journalist Anna Romano investigates the theft of a famous Caravaggio painting trying to uncover the truth about her father's mysterious disappearance. Drawn into the world of art trading, amidst financial intrigue and shady dealings with the mafia, she soon realizes that her family is hiding dangerous secrets.
Vasilisa Kremneva (Maria Kozhevnikova)-senior employee of the press center of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. She has just been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, but Vasilisa has long dreamed of doing real work. After all, instead of catching criminals, she is forced to work as a "talking head" - to tell the audience about the achievements of law enforcement agencies. However, despite all her requests, the authorities (Emmanuel Vitorgan) refuse to transfer the beauty, who has long become the" face " of the Committee, to operational work. Radically change the life of a girl helps the case.
Yugoslavia, 1979. Jugoslav is an ambitious reporter in a country that strictly controls the media. Blagoje is a colonel of UDBA before retirement, broken by health problems. Their paths cross when a brutal murder shakes a town in Serbia. They both go to investigate the case, for different reasons.
In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same manner as Jinx's first husband - makes Jinx the prime suspect. Then, with the help of eminent neuroscientist Dr.Alan Protheroe, some memories begin to surface. Memories of desperation and paralysing terror.
Evgenia Kolesnikova, a correspondent for a private newspaper, receives a prestigious journalistic award - the Silver Pen - for a series of revealing articles about fraud with Moscow real estate. One of the defendants in the real estate case, official Vitaly Martov, throws himself out of the window of his apartment. On the same day, police officers Nazarov and Artemyev find a notebook with a list of his future victims in the dead professional killer Borisenko. Evgenia Kolesnikova is on the list.