Inspired by Augusto Monterroso’s Maids, this short film combining fiction and dance presents a maid ballerina embodying the voices of two stock radio drama lovers who plan to murder her with their own hands.
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Inspired by Augusto Monterroso’s Maids, this short film combining fiction and dance presents a maid ballerina embodying the voices of two stock radio drama lovers who plan to murder her with their own hands.
Mitrice Richardson, a lovely 24 year old African-American woman, was released late at night from the Malibu, California Sheriffs jail after having been detained for not paying her bill at an upscale restaurant. She was described as 'acting crazy' and, in fact, was having a mental crisis. She was released into the mountainous region with no cell, no purse, no ID, no car, no way home and vanished. Eleven months later her remains were found in a desolate Malibu canyon. 'Lost Compassion,' shot from ten days after Mitrice went missing, tells the complex, emotional inside story of the search for Mitrice and struggles with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, whose deputies lied about her arrest and likely were involved with her disappearance and murder.
Police receive a strange call claiming that in a few hours, a woman will be kidnapped. The informer describes a couple, sitting at a café and claims the woman is in grave danger. Police rush to the café but find no one matching the couple's description. Then, hours later, a young woman, Elodie Morel, is reported missing. Then the case becomes even stranger. She had responded to an internet advert for models and was supposed to be meeting the casting director at a café. Could she be the woman?
It tells the story of a mother and her two sons who lost their husband. The younger son became a thug by joining the wrong crowd, committing robberies, and becoming a thug, while the older son became a well-educated and well-mannered young man. However, the mother devotes all her attention and care to the older son. One day, the younger son extorts money from a poor woman who works at a cafeteria, destroys her belongings, and beats her mentally ill son to steal his money. On a rainy autumn evening, when the older son goes out to buy medicine for his mother, wearing his brother's shirt, the boy who was beaten by his younger brother mistakes him for his younger brother and beats him to death with a brick. As the saying goes, "I put on a coat after the last rain," the film shows how he realizes everything after his brother's death.
A vain woman hires a hitman to murder herself.
A documentary examining one of the UK's most notorious criminals, as Steve Wright's father Conrad offers his deeply personal insights into the horrific crimes his son committed. Steve Wright, dubbed the Suffolk Strangler', murdered five women who worked as prostitutes and dumped their bodies in the countryside around Ipswich in 2006, and was jailed for life in 2008. The programme also features an exclusive interview with Isabella Clennel, the mother of one of the women brutally murdered by Steve Wright, as she opens up about the impact her daughter Paula's death had - and continues to have - on her family.
A short film neo-noir following one of the cases of Detective Grayson, as he looks into the murder of multi-millionaire William Schubert.
The story of the man who betrayed tax evaders worldwide and thus heralded the end of banking secrecy in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Batguy, an aging superhero, struggles to take down a new villain, The Seven. As The Seven tries to take a young boy for nefarious purposes, Batguy’s abilities are put to the test as he fights celebrities, random goons and his own mortality.
A high school hall cop takes a shot at redemption after running into two jumping hooligans.
Berlin criminal investigator Sara Stein cultivates a low-key style. No superwoman, she abhors violence and relies on her gift for convincing others that she‘s trustworthy. Above all, she enjoys working in Berlin and Tel Aviv. Her being Jewish is a major asset, since she can navigate sure-footedly through the morass of explosive and impenetrable conflicts among Jews, Arabs and Palestinians. Sara‘s a team worker, whether she and her colleagues are working on the case of a murdered woman DJ in Berlin or that of a manslaughter out of compassion in Tel Aviv. Though she falls in love with the Israeli pianist David, she is fiercely independent and reluctant to commit herself. She lives for her cases and, beyond this, for a dream of peace in her beloved Israel.
The fears and consequences of the con life are explored when Two Con-Artist from the Southside of Chicago Hustle the Russian Mafia. Their street skills are put to the test when they are given 14 days to pay 2 Million dollars in restitution.
Two overweight brothers get into a fight over a cookie that ends in blood.
Ulysses must get involved in a clandestine boxing match after losing a poker game to Ramiro Cortez, a low-life criminal…
James Carr is a hotshot movie producer. His girlfriend Shandi is a hot commodity. A romantic getaway, with plans of making her a star, goes awry when Shandi is kidnapped and forced into an underground adult film company called HIGHSPEED FLAMINGO, run by the eccentric Purple Hat Tom and his bumbling partner Bobby Lagoon. Now with the assistance of a lazy bartender and sexy secret agent and rock star Genevieve Anastasio, it's life or death for James to save the day and get the girl in this lightning-paced action comedy!
In a haunting southern town, a new police officer is tasked with informing a young woman of her husband's grisly murder, but battles with his own convictions when he becomes suspicious the widow might have played a role in her husband's death.
What does evil look like? How can it be explained? Detective Henry Harker has traveled a long way to find the answer, and he will get one. Whether he likes it or not.
On June 22, 1954, two teenage girls Pauline Yvonne Parker and Juliet Marion Hulme murdered Honora Parker, the mother of Pauline in Victoria Park outside of Christchurch, New Zealand. This crime continues to fascinate the world. In 1994, Peter Jackson created a film based on the events called 'Heavenly Creatures' with Kate Winslet & Melanie Lynskey. This documentary will examine the relationship of Pauline & Juliet and the murder case.
This moving and amusing story is narrated by Derrick J himself and includes plenty of exciting activist footage that makes it clear who the real criminals are - the people calling themselves "government".
With the High Desert drug game getting out of control, the police are forced to use an undercover street-cop to infiltrate the extreme world of drugs and violence. With his new identity, D-Dogg must prove himself by mastering the criminal way of life. However, his cover is about to be blown when the drug lord gets word of the disloyalty in his camp.
Fred and Rose West were a married couple who killed at least ten young British girls, some of them their own daughters. February 24, 1994 was the beginning of the end -- the end of the extraordinary things that had been going on in the ordinary three-story house in central Gloucester. But it was also the beginning of a discovery as the layers of secrets hidden at 25 Cromwell Street were slowly peeled away. Twenty years on, Sky News investigates the unanswered questions with an in depth documentary.
Another DAY, Another CARD, Another HIT, Another DEATH.
A couple of hotshot entrepreneurs start a business in their secondary school.
A young, and talented aspiring singer must decide whether to escape the crime-ravaged city where she grew up and go to Julliard, or stay on her quest to end the violence and rebuild her community.
In the heart of Detroit, two detectives fight side-by-side to avenge the death of the man that brought them together - and to protect the city they call home.
The story of one man, Derek Conway
Chasing a serial killer will never bring back the dead. It's just gonna get worse.
Vic Simmons helps people in desperate situations where the law cannot act. He faces a dire situation when a domineering ex-boyfriend beings stalking and threatening Katie, the younger sister of a deceased friend who he vowed to protect.
The thieves want to rob her cattle but she finds it out.
A thrilling detective story about a reporter investigating a murder.
For the first time we tell the story of murder-suicide in Ireland through the testimonies of families directly affected. There have been 21 cases of murder suicide in the last ten years alone, many resulting in the deaths of young children.
A study in modern crime solving techniques, used in the search for the 1984 killer of teenage Melanie. It demonstrates how traditional investigative techniques are enhanced by DNA profiling. Including interviews with the original investigation team.
Why are more women in Australia going to prison than ever before? Women find themselves behind bars for various crimes ranging from violence in self-defense to drug trafficking, breaking-and-entering & driving under the influence. Many then get stuck in a pattern of re-offending and repeated jail stints. ‘Criminalising Women’ follows three Australian ladies who have been released from prison. The feature traces their rehabilitation into society, and how they navigate an institutional system that is designed to punish them, instead of bringing about a change in individuals.
October of 1993, in Eugene, Oregon, a taxi driver and a young documentary filmmaker set out on a night's journey they'll never forget.
A YouTube prank goes terribly wrong and now they have to get rid of dead body so their channel doesn't get deleted
'Black Maple Lane' is a student film made back in 2017 about Clarence who has just recently been released from prison for an unknown offense, and his brother Micahel whose character is just as shady. Over the course of the afternoon, both brothers have to make tough decisions and deal with the consequences.
The Witmans is a film about two heart-broken parents. This documentary follows Ron and Sue Witman, fifteen years after their lives were turned upside down. The Witmans looks at how a family clings together after 15 year old Zach Witman was accused and found guilty of murdering his 13 year old brother. Believing their son to be innocent, the Witmans take a 2 hour drive each weekend to visit Zach, who now is serving life in prison.
Detective Conad is investigating suspicious events regarding an Art Gallery and the paintings of the mysterious artist "The Rapture".
Young Samantha is targeted by Kate and Ivan, who want to get to her father's safe.
a film about 3 friends trying to play for the Chinese Basketball Association
A series of murders occur in a small town. One man documents the events.
Isabel, a young woman from Rio, receives the news that her grandfather Ismael's farm, her place of affection during childhood, was sold by her parents without her knowledge. Driven by her veiled memories, she picks up her mother's car at dawn and drives to the farm in an attempt to repair the past.
The human life and the struggles it presents, test a group of life long companions. Broken trust, and a serial rapist leads to suffering and heartache for many in its wake. In this violent tale of normal America, no one is safe.
A spoof of urban films with a grade Z approach. It's like a homicidal version of a Cheech and Chong film with ultra, low budget gore and very black comedy. It is also reminiscent of the 80's shot-on-video films.
This hard hitting Crime Drama is about a group of Detectives who are assigned to bring down a dangerous but untouchable criminal all while trying to figure out who robbed a retired mob boss and left him for dead.
It's Friday night and Abby is spending it doing laundry at the local laundromat. Customers shuffle around the washers and dryers while she chats away on the phone. Her friend tells her that a killer is on the loose. Everything's fine... until she ends up alone and spooked out.
Veerappan-the forest brigand who is still revered by a section of people even after his death was a ruthless killer of hundreds of forest and police officers.
The case of the Austrian man who kept his daughter prisoner for 24 years in the cellar of his house, until she was released in 2008 at the age of 42. Dramatically pleading guilty to all of the charges at the last moment of the trial, he was sentenced to life in a secure unit for incest, imprisonment, raping the victim - who bore seven children - and causing the death of one child by neglect. This documentary explores the crime itself, Fritzl's trial and the aftermath for everyone involved, and ponders how anyone can possibly recover from such an ordeal.
This is a story about standing up against what is wrong.
In a remote area of bucolic town Nabunturan, Bodong, a young lumad boy stumbled upon a river full of free gold. Though trying to keep the location of the area to him, Bodong’s life begins to complicate when his friend Alec starts to confront him about the site. Inner greed starts to brew between the two as they fight even to death to take control of the boundless treasure.
Four special operation FBI agents go on a mission to take down a terrorist organization.
Tulsa, Oklahoma is renowned as "the oil capitol of the world" - once home to the most prosperous black community in the United States known as "Black Wall Street." In 1921, after members of the KKK had effectively taken control of the city, Black Wall Street was destroyed in a massacre known as "The Tulsa Race Riot." Black Wall Street, formerly known as the Greenwood District was then renamed the Brady District for Tulsa's Ku Klux Klan-affiliated Mayor. Ever since, the area has known extensive, community-wide victimization by racist members of the Tulsa law enforcement community. In April 2015, a Reserve Deputy killed Eric Harris, an unarmed suspect, as he ran from members of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office.