Across the River to Motor City is a Canadian television drama series, that aired on Citytv stations. It debuted November 22, 2007. The series is about an insurance investigator named Ben Ford who works the border in both Detroit and Windsor. The story takes into account the shifting allegiances and ambitions that straddle the Detroit/Windsor boundary, and urban portion of the Canada/United States border.
Benjamin Ford's 30th birthday happens to fall on a fateful day: November 22, 1963, the day of the Kennedy assassination. Coincidentally, it is also the day that his flight attendant girlfriend, Katie, disappears on a flight back from Dallas.
The mystery of what happened to her, and why, consumes the life of Ben Ford; it eventually involves his adult daughter, Kathleen, when Katie's body turns up 40 years later. Family mysteries and intrigue play out against a backdrop of some of the more momentous events of recent American and Canadian history.
The six-episode series was shot in Canada in the Ontario cities of H
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Amanda Blakefield's life is a happy one, with her husband Jimmy and their son Luke. But when Amanda is left an enormous inheritance by a man she has neither met nor heard of before, her life starts to fall apart. Amanda becomes embroiled in the world of the Worralls, where Martin Worrall is head of a family bound in past secrets. As Amanda is drawn further and further into past events and relationships, all of their lives are turned upside down.
In 1882, Jelena Ilka Marković orchestrates a failed assassination plot against King Milan Obrenović. Shortly after her conviction, she is found dead in her cell - an official suicide. Seven years later, the discovery of two bodies on the same day - a young girl and the great-grandson of Prince Miloš - reignites the shadows of the past. As a struggling lawyer and the Belgrade Chief of Police reopen the case, they are drawn into a web of political intrigue and secrets powerful enough to shatter the very foundations of Serbia.
After a wild night at a secluded luxury estate, five strikingly handsome guests wake to find the gates locked, the host missing, and $2 million stolen from a hidden vault. When the security system traps them inside the mansion and poolside paradise, suspicion turns dangerously personal. Old rivalries, secret deals and one deadly betrayal begin to surface as each man fights to prove he isn’t the thief—or the killer. With every room searched and every lie exposed, the truth becomes harder to outrun. In a house built for pleasure and power, trust is the most dangerous gamble of all.
A bullied and vulnerable small‑town constable transforms into a brutal force while solving forgotten warrant cases, until a custodial death forces the law to judge the man he has become.
An employee of the Russian special services goes undercover to Mariupol to identify the curator of the CIA's agent network, who, using recruited youth, is preparing a large-scale terrorist attack in Russia.
Two families share a close bond, but beneath the surface lies a series of concealed truths. As relationships evolve and tensions rise, each character’s hidden past and motivations begin to emerge.
Proposed murder/mystery/thriller series presented by Vincent Price. Was never picked up for air but the pilot episode "Freedom to Get Lost" was eventually released as an extra on the DVD for Price's appearance on Sinister Image.
A double homicide in Guangnan City leads detective Lin Wei and veteran officer Guodong Ma into a complex investigation that uncovers a group driven by resentment and greed. As the case spans several years, the primary suspect reemerges under a new identity, forcing the detectives to continue their pursuit.