Crossing the Line' is a realistic crime drama set in the border town of Narva, where cross-border smuggling is still part of everyday life. Recently returned to his hometown, patrol officer Paul Kriisa finds both his professional and personal life beginning to unravel after the sudden return of his teenage daughter, Emilia. Hoping to gain custody, Paul turns to his former classmate Maria, now working in the city administration. What starts as an innocent favour soon pulls him into an illegal network – one that becomes increasingly difficult to escape. A story about people standing at the final border – geographical, moral, and emotional.
Chanon, a medical intern driven by a three‑year vendetta, infiltrates the world of Leo Thanakorn, heir to a powerful mafia family, drawing him in with a meticulously planned seduction. The closer he gets, the more dangerous things become. He pushes the game to its limits, even taking a knife meant for Leo and gaining Leo’s possessive protection. He uses Leo’s trust to hunt down every enemy, counting down to the final target and to all illusions shattering.
The story takes place when the road to Santiago was a dangerous road, there was political instability and the Hostel of the Catholic Kings was the Compostela Hospital. In this context, we will know the main couple who will face the enormous social barriers that separate them. The birth of this love affair, and other ingredients such as crime, murder and intrigue.
The real-life story that inspired Martin Scorsese's 1995 masterpiece "Casino," chronicling the rise and fall of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal's 1970's Las Vegas mob-affiliated casino empire.
When a man is accused of murdering his partner, his only defence is claiming it was a case of assisted suicide. But was it really an act of love or a cold blooded murder?
First-hand testimonies tell the story of one of the UK's largest murder investigations. Left in the killer's wake are devastated families and a huge police inquiry piecing together the disturbing puzzle of an unknown serial killer.
Catching Killers is a true crime series following police and prosecutors as they apprehend and incarcerate the world's most violent killers. Each episode features two stories of murder from around the world.
Nearly half of all murders in our country are committed within relationships. People who, driven by jealousy, fear of abandonment, sheer hatred, or a combination of all of these, kill their (ex-)partner. Most victims are women, occasionally men. Perpetrators often invoke arguments like love and passion to explain their heinous act. But love is never an alibi for murder. In "Murder Cases: Love is Not an Alibi," crime journalist José Masschelin, along with relatives, lawyers, criminologists, and clinical psychologists, reconstructs eight cases in which the perpetrators were convicted by a jury of the murder or manslaughter of a (ex-)partner. The focus is not only on the murder itself but also on the background. In many cases, alarm bells were already ringing, but no one considered it possible that it would ever actually happen...