On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.
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On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.
Concha flies from his natal Rio to Germany to help his loved one, who has been caught after finding some diamonds in a mine already registered by a company. Amongst them is the impressive one which thanks to her will be known as The Star from Rio. She finds herself staying at the manager's home hired as a dancer to present the diamond at a fashion show. Then the lights go suddenly out.
Three terrorists—a rebel girl from an upper-class family, a teacher who despises capitalism, and an ex-con with a taste for violence—come together to kill the Minister of the Interior and destabilise the government.
A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself.
Ciccio “O' Pazz” and Ciruzzo “Pesce bello”, are two powerful, blood-soaked Mafia characters. The legacy left to them is a violent, depraved narrative of murderous dominion over the weak. But still, enemies muscling their way into this realm of the wretched. These apparently harmless enemies are nevertheless viewed as potential usurpers by Ciccio and Ciruzzo, who, alienated by their imposed surroundings, develop a deep paranoia towards two animals: Severino, leader of the famous donkeys of Campu Perdu, and Piero, top boar around the Olive field area. The day of reckoning is near. There has to be a showdown. They have to get rid of the two animals. There's no way around it. A letter is delivered. A Pinter-like ultimatum with a crystal-clear demand: it's you or us. Men or animals. Coexistence is out of the question. Power has room for only one big chief. The final, inevitable apocalypse draws near.
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Dr Viktoria Wex arrives in a town in Masuria. She is about to say goodbye to the uncle who raised her as a surrogate father. The letter she received suggests that he has decided to take his own life.
Young women search for love whilst living in a cheap Parisian boardinghouse that does not allow men.
Two bank employees decide to steal the money of a dead client, a bold thief finds out about their plan and decides to impersonate as the nephew of the deceased
Mike Hilton served eight years in prison for being innocent. When he is released from prison early, he wants revenge on the men who were responsible. But the ex-commissioner in charge at the time, Jack Bellamy, has given in to drunkenness. And Mike's lawyer Cunningham continues to make crooked deals. He holds the key to solving the case. When Bellamy picks himself up again, he and Hilton are able to bring Cunningham and the gangster Whity to justice.
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
Urgent call from the clinic: Not for the first time, Dr. Felix Hoffmann the comfortable TV evening for use in the emergency room. He spontaneously takes over the night shift for a colleague. The ward doctor has no idea what consequences the next few hours will have for him and his girlfriend Celine. When a patient dies in the emergency room, Dr. Hoffmann does not believe in a natural death. The Ukrainian Misha Chenkov was part of a cleaning crew at the hospital and was therefore no stranger to him. In addition, he was recently released from the clinic in good health - but his patient file has disappeared. Dr. Hoffman tells his girlfriend Celine about the case. She immediately has a suspicion and wants to investigate the matter. So the two stumble into a criminal case and become more and more involved in the mafia-like machinations of the clinic management
The unscrupulous bar owner Otto Grolbek hires the masseur Janos Klewe to murder his landlady. He then wants to inherit her and get his hands on some urgently needed money. But things turn out differently than planned: Janos is killed during the attempted murder in Portugal and Vera returns to Germany terrified. Now Otto has to commit the crime himself and kills his landlady. He disguises the crime perfectly, but has not reckoned with Inspector Mungowski's subtlety ...
Harmesh and Soumili move into their dream home, unbeknownst to the spate of mysterious suicides plaguing the area and local police force. Perplexed and alarmed by the high rate of unexplained deaths, the pair seek answers from Detective Barun Rai, a specialist investigator famed for unravelling paranormal crimes.
The backward system of society pushes another dream-filled boy to the curb. With his aspiration suppressed, he is at risk of falling into the attractive arms of gang life.
Who would kill a Carthusian monk and why? As the investigators will find out, the key to the mystery lies in the ultra-secret formula of the Chartreuse plant liqueur.
A cinema organist carries out a series of grisly murders.
Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.
The attractive policewoman Carla Paul still has the remains of her carnival make-up and glitter on her face. But now the motto is: "Make-up off and off to work!" Because the attractive head of a small police station in the heart of Cologne is facing the biggest challenge of her life: the annual madness of the Rose Monday parade. Not only did she break up with Rick, her colleague who is still madly in love with her, just a few days ago, but today of all days, the auditor Kersten, another of Carla's exes, arrives. She and her colleagues have their hands full trying to get the drunken rabbits, chickens and Mainzelmännchen into the already overcrowded sobering-up cell at the police station.
The Munich LKA officer Sandra Rutkowski received an anonymous call in which a star tenor from the Munich State Opera was accused of molesting children. A boy brought to him is said to be locked in the cloakroom of the singer, who is still being celebrated on the stage. When Sandra and the Munich inspector Lukas Laim break down the door to the cloakroom, they find an intimidated, apathetic boy in the closet.
The body of a Turkish film student is found in the Wittelsbach fountain in Munich. Apparently Ömer Özkan drowned, but not in the fountain water, but in the beer. His lungs are filled with beer from "Minga Bräu", a traditional Munich brewery that is allegedly being sold to Istanbul. A Turkish student drowned in Bavarian beer. A puzzling case for Inspector Pasha and his Migra. While Pius Leipold enters the beer milieu with great vigor, Zeki's investigative zeal is very subdued.
Italian comedy
Carl Hart (Al Carretta), an ex-Police informant, sacrifices his new alias and long planned final heist to protect Toni Ash (Tash Chant), a feisty gemologist who has stolen her way into trouble.
The prominent TV presenter Sandra Berger is dead. Gardening entrepreneur Britta Hausmann finds the TV lady beaten to death in her Usedom vacation home. Chief Inspector Ellen Norgaard is shocked when she meets the dead woman's husband, the equally well-known TV presenter Jonas Gomez, at the crime scene. The two are connected by the well-kept secret of a passionate affair. Karin Lossow senses that Ellen is in a bad way. The detective pours her heart out to her friend. Nobody at the police station suspects that Ellen was seeing Jonas Gomez at the time of the crime. It would mean the certain end of her career in the police force and the probable end of the career of her lover, who has no alibi for the time of the crime and is also being blackmailed.
Martin Becker, a drug addict, journeys to Colombia seeking direct access to supply but vanishes. When his mother Lore is summoned to identify his body, she discovers the corpse isn’t her son, but just someone using his passport. With the aid of adventurous pilot Blain, she uncovers a jungle-backed drug ring where addicts are enslaved by the mafia. Filmed on location in Ecuador, this crime adventure follows their perilous quest for the truth.
The decisions of six individuals collide during a day out of control, where they seek to change what seems inevitable. Michael gets into serious trouble when he has to settle a debt with Tony, a peculiar criminal. Rafael fulfills his dream of being a cop, but discovers that the job also involves testing his ideals. Manuel and Arthur are two students who discover that the way to make easy money does not always Java a point of return. Sergio carries the weight of the death of his brother and has to face his fears when an intruder threatens his family.
Walter Cherubini, reporter for the newspaper La Provincia di Parma, is transferred to crime news due to a dispute with the editor. Despite his inexperience in the field, he will soon find himself dealing with the case of an honorable man's suicide. The man, with the help of Candy, a journalist from a local broadcaster, discovers that the solution to the mystery lies behind a recent trip made by the politician and other fellow citizens to Cuba.
Blood, drugs, bad company and easy money send Adry to prison for 10 years. When he returns to his old neighborhood, he must prevent his little brother Álvaro from following in the same footsteps and try to reconcile with him while fighting for his survival against the demons and violence from his past that return to torment him.
A potential suicide attends psychotherapy only to discover that it is too late to prevent his own death and, incidentally, a murder for which he will also be responsible.
Michael King is hired by a rich banker to track down his son, a famous nuclear physicist, who disappeared with a secret formula.
An unexpected event brings together an unlikely group of students.
The night before a drag show, two gunmen show up at a gay club in Santiago, Chile. Gabriela will try to handle the situation and avoid a violent turnout.
DI Walter Gambon is a self-styled “Yoda of the force”, whose workload suddenly increases when he’s handed the cases of an officer who committed suicide by throwing himself under a Tube train. Or was he pushed? Gambon must work out whether his former colleague was murdered, while tracking down another officer who has gone so far undercover that nobody knows where he (or she) is.
Valentin (Wotan Wilke Möhring) thought it an excellent idea to let his best friend Theo (Fabian Busch) its new, large house for one night, so that the therein undisturbed with the attractive waitress Mörli (Claudia Eisinger) can enjoy. As the best-selling author and passionate chess player Theo currently has trouble
A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.
Guillem Agulló y Salvador was killed by a stab in the heart by a group of neo-Nazis on April 11, 1993. Destroyed, his parents, Guillermo and Carmen, will fight so that the death of their son is not manipulated, and is not considered the fruit of of a simple gang fight. The way, full of obstacles, threats and a dirty media war, will be about to destroy the family, who must learn to mourn the death of a child while fighting for his memory, which little by little becomes the symbol of a cause they would never have thought to lead.
Shortly before the celebration of his 95th birthday, Karl Wolter is murdered. Instead of ending their accidental marriage for good on the long-awaited divorce date, Killmer and Kati Biever take up the investigation. The suspects in their case are rather eccentric: the retarded day laborer with the glass eye, a senile chicken baron and Miss Blücher, a housekeeper with an icy stare and a heavy inheritance. During their investigations, Killmer and Kati soon realize that the crime must have something to do with an inglorious event deep in Monreal's past.
Steve Wraith had a fascination with the Krays, and after writing them letters Reg took an instant liking to him, even requesting Steve visit with his brother Ron, in Broadmoor. They would go on to ask Steve to take over their business interests in the outside world. As it turned out, this was an exercise in trust, grooming him, as what came next was a stark lesson in just how terrifying the Krays could be, even behind bars.
As children play hide and seek, they witness a crime. Only Auguste, the youngest amongst them, no longer wants to carry the burden of keeping the grave secret. A poetically crafted miniature about guilt, betrayal and loyalty.
The two washed-up TV stars Micki and Ginger and the unemployed physicist Reno try to kidnap a young woman. But one of the three kidnappers suddenly doubts the value of the money and drives his accomplices mad. The kidnapped woman is already missing. Three children from a good family are looking for their sister: the dutiful Junior, who counts up his day in seconds, his brother Adrian, who, by contrast, thinks life is one big family outing, and Sophia, the artist, who never finds the real thing in life.
The holidays at a pension in Touquet (North-Western France) are marred by a series of tragic disappearances.
Milan: a drifter, hungry for money, allows himself to be corrupted and carries out a murder on commission.
Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.