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Polish
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In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
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In the tranquil setting of the South Downs a killer is at large as a young girl suffers a cruel death, the second such death in the area. Law enforcement officers are under extreme pressure to apprehend the culprit and suspicion falls on a mild-mannered music teacher who is wholly innocent of the crime. Lies are told in open court that ensures his conviction and he is sentenced to life imprisonment. Young Detective Sergeant Josie Prentiss is deeply...
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English
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Conjoined twins Dorothy and Vivian Hamilton (Daisy and Violet Hilton) have a successful
vaudeville singing act. Their manager Hinkley (Allen Jenkins) thinks a publicity stunt will
reinvigorate their career. He pays stunt shooter Andre Pariseau (Mario Laval) to fake a romance
with one of the twins. Vivian dislikes Andre and wants nothing to do with the scheme, but
Dorothy agrees and falls in love.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 1
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English
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At 14 years old, Daniel Bartlam killed his mother with a claw hammer then sought to cover his tracks by concocting a story that came straight from a soap opera.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 10
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English
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Richard Kuklisnki, known as the 'Iceman,' claimed to have killed up to 250 in his three-decade-long career as a hitman for the mafia, all of which he kept separate from his average middle-class existence. How much of Kuklisnki's psychopathic personality was passed on by his parents? And how much of his traumatic upbringing was invented by Kuklinski as a way of rationalizing his crimes?
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 4
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English
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Dr Harold Shipman, was Britain's most prolific serial killer with at least 215 known victims. Was Shipman simply addicted to murdering by morphine or did his upbringing turn him into a mass murderer?
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 8
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English
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Poland's `vampire' Leszek Pekalski murdered dozens of men, women and children. Pekalski was subjected to extreme physical violence on a daily basis, and was neglected and often starved by family.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 6
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English
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One of Britain's most infamous killers. Dennis Nilsen murdered 15 young men in London during the late 70s and early 80s. But what led this seemingly normal civil servant to start killing for company?
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 5
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English
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Joachim Knychala, the Polish serial killer who earned the ghoulish nickname `Frankenstein', attacked his victims with an axe. He brutally murdered 5 women and attempted another 7 over 8 grisly years.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 7
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English
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Serial child-killer Robert Black preyed on young girls across the country. Black's biological mother left him shortly after his birth, while his foster mother neglected and physically abused him.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 3
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English
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With a sunny exterior, Jed Allen's case shook the world when he killed his mother, stepfather, and six year old half-sister. Experts examine the dysfunctional family of the Wolverine.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 2
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English
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Fred and Rosemary West murdered 12 women including 2 of their daughters in one of the most shocking cases Britain has ever seen.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 9
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English
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Tragic Sandy Hook incident, where Adam Lanza killed his mother before shooting 20 children dead at the elementary school.
14) 12 Angry Men
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English
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The defense and prosecution have rested. The jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
15) Crime of Passion
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English
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Kathy (Barbara Stanwyck) leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill (Sterling Hayden) but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a very dangerous path.
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English
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With T. S. Eliot's words as his guide, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey toward enlightenment in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late 1970s. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, Tallon searches for his"place of peace" -- a spiritual landscape located somewhere between his small town in Northern Ireland and Iowa ... and maybe between heaven and hell.
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English
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"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers . . . "
Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide. Or is he?
Pat spent endless hours chain-smoking and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar (not that Mrs. McNab knew anything about it-she and Timmy the barman didn't get along at all) or sitting on his mother's knee singing away together like some...
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Wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the men's paths for only a few hours or moments.
In "Beaching It," an artist traveling on the summer...
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Ana Avdonin had always been a little difficult. Particular, hard to please, and she didn't deny any of it. As a Bratva princess and the daughter of Anton Avdonin, she was taught that if-not when-she chose to have a man stand by her side, he should be worthy of the position.When Koldan Vasin swept into her life like a hurricane, he quickly turned everything that Ana thought she knew upside down. He'd always called her beautiful even at her ugliest;...
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