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Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years, he's worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn't sure where to lay the blame--on Maxie, the man he once considered his brother, or on the early-onset Alzheimer's that made Maxie lose faith in him in the first place. To keep his head above water, he begins to operate...
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A thief breaks into a car, only to leave his phone, and his social media profile, behind. A man robs a supermarket, but forgets his eight-year-old son in the store. A murder suspect hides in a ceiling, which collapses, dropping him at the feet of police. 'The World's Even Dumber Criminals' is full of new, unbelievable-but-true stories about foolish people who put the wrong in wrongdoing.
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"In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. Wesley Lowery writes about a lynching left unsolved for decades by an indifferent police force and a family's quest for answers. Justine van der Leun reports on the thousands of women in prison for defending themselves from abuse. May Jeong reveals how the Atlanta spa shootings tell a story...
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It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home. Luke Ryder's murder has never been solved. Guy Howard's mother and two half-sisters were in the house at the time of the murder-but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged....
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Kunal and Sonia two engineering students start conning various people in different states and leave the trademark logo of Bunty Aur Babli. Rakesh Tridevi and his wife Vimmi Saluja Trivedi are living normal middle-class lives for the last fifteen years after they stopped coning people. Inspector Jatau Singh arrests the two thinking they are back in the market to con the people but finds they are innocent and someone else is using their names to con...
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Brittney left her house unexpectedly in May 2012 in rural Alabama. She was never seen or heard from again. Her mother has campaigned for years to continue the search after the police gave up. Told emotionally by the family and captivating plot twists at the end of each episode, we discover the horrific truth Brittney’s entire family was hiding. Almost all her relatives were implicated in Alabama’s largest child sex ring, and in May 2012, young...
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Danni, a young disillusioned girl from a working-class family falls in with the wrong crowd, entering a violent underground world. Struggling to find her identity she soon starts committing crimes but each one escalates and her future seems dire. Her family calls in a friend to save her from a life of crime. Now he must battle skinheads, police, and more to save this young woman.
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When Ruth Blacksmith's new partner, Aidan, reveals that he once hurt a woman called Mary Trelease, Ruth is deeply worried. She raises her concerns with Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer who is intrigued. But when Charlie decides to call in at Ruth's house, she finds a disturbing scene. Ruth's ex-husband, Jason Blacksmith, has been murdered. Charlie and Detective Simon Waterhouse investigate the case and find themselves divided over motives and suspects....
10) The power
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It has been often quoted that no change can occur without suffering and no creation without destruction. Devidas Thakur recalls his gunshot childhood as he flies back from Singapore for his mother's birthday. He intends to just be a visitor to the world he left behind and to take his beloved Pari (Shruti Haasan) away. He intends to leave his loving, loyal albeit power-hungry family behind to rule their "kingdom" in Mumbai, so he can be a chef. Fate,...
11) Made You Look
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An American crime documentary about the largest art fraud in American history set in the super rich, super obsessed and super fast art world of New York.
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Second series of the light hearted crime drama and ratings smash hit. Hardboiled PI Frank and his rookie sidekick Lu have formed the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate crime and misdemeanours in Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-on-Avon. Series 2 will see Frank and Lu investigate kidnapped canines, locked room mysteries, dead ringers and doppelgängers, vice, fraud, extortion and identity theft.
14) Jamesy Boy
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A young gang member turns his life around in prison, thanks to the friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
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Comedy drama about private detectives who investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon. Private inspector Frank Hathaway has always worked alone. But Frank isn't doing so well. He's out of shape and low on cash. Frank needs a partner. Frank needs ex-hairdresser and people-person Lu. He just doesn't know it yet. The two eventually join forces and form a highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detecting duo. Frank and Lu quickly discover that all is not...
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Now that Lu has passed her private investigator exams and Frank's tidied himself up a bit, there's no stopping them. But murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity still abound in the pretty tourist town of Stratford-upon-Avon. An ageing heavy metal star with a pact with the devil. A Shakespeare museum full of deadly secrets. A King Lear story set in a carpet warehouse. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard, where low-life criminals get caught up in...
17) Snowden
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The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
18) Imma Tataranni
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Deputy prosecutor Imma Tataranni cracks cases with attitude to spare in this entertaining Italian crime series set in Matera.
19) Lawless
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The true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel "The Wettest County in the World", the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
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