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The award-winning crime drama returns for a landmark 20th season, starring Emilia Fox. Each story follows the dedicated team of forensic pathologists who try to work out how and why the victim died, often risking their own lives in the process. In this season: an apparent suicide that starts to look a lot more like murder, a young woman is dragged from a river in the same spot where her best friend mysteriously disappeared three years before and, in the final explosive story set in Mexico, Nikki finds herself in danger when she searches for the truth about the death of a former colleague.
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe “Deke” Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff Department Sergeant Jim Baxter, impressed with Deke’s cop instincts, unofficially engages his help. But as they track the killer, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke’s past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's enigmatic, eccentric and extremely intelligent detective Hercule Poirot. From England to the Mediterranean, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, Captain Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon, Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions. The Definitive Collection includes all 13 seasons, featuring 70 episodes plus bonus features.
All 39 episodes from the first three seasons of the award-winning
political drama starring Kevin Spacey. Based on the novel by Michael
Dobbs and the subsequent BBC adaptation of the book, the show follows
Francis Underwood (Spacey), the House Majority Whip who, despite his
position of authority, is gravely dissatisfied. Fuelled by a sense of
ambition matched and encouraged by his wife Claire (Robin Wright),
Francis ultimately wants to be president and is embittered by the fact
that he has recently been denied a promotion.
The return of the BBC One award-winning crime drama. Still reeling from the sudden death of Dr Thomas Chamberlain and the shock departure of colleague Clarissa Mullery, Nikki and colleague Jack Hodgson return to the Lyell Centre to solve another five thrilling mysteries. A case at a high security prison stirs disturbing memories for Nikki. New recruit Adam causes friction with his impetuous desire to impress. Forensic ecologist Simone's unique knowledge helps solve the murder of a promising young boxer. And Nikki suspects a body donated to medical science may not have died from natural causes after all.
The charismatic crime-fighting priest returns to solve more mysteries in the beautiful English countryside. Based on the character created by GK Chesterton. The year is now 1954 and the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford sees new faces join Father Brown’s team of sleuths. The dashing Chief Inspector Sullivan is back and proves a pleasant distraction for Mrs Devine, Father Brown’s lively new Parish Secretary, while plucky new housekeeper Brenda helps the priest’s crime solving. With royal visits, kidnappings and notorious gangsters to contend with, Father Brown also faces his old adversary Flambeau who returns to Kembleford after being accused of murder. Father Brown risks his own life to prove his innocence – but is his faith in Flambeau misplaced?
Eloise is an aspiring fashion designer and is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be, and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
Gina and Sam have found a way of working and living together, but you couldn't call them best friends. Leo's adulterous legacy casts a long shadow. Dashing celeb chef Mason Elliot throws a grenade at the very heart of this complex relationship, and carefully curated resentments bubble forth, pushing the Benelli Vincent alliance to the brink. Not even Teresa and Mimi's unbreakable bond can prevent the implosion. But can their secret woes pull this dysfunctional family back together?
Five months after the events season 1, DS Marcella Backland is called to a house where a body has been found. She is shocked to discover that she knew the victim a 9-year-old boy, Leo Priestley, who disappeared four years ago after agreeing to walk home with her son. A convicted paedophile; an aging Rockstar and his agent; a self-made millionaire and his wife, the founder of a successful children's charity; and a veteran of Afghanistan struggling to support his sister and her baby are soon all on the investigating team's radar. Even relatives and colleagues fall under suspicion. Meanwhile Marcella is finding it harder and harder to keep her violent fugues under control and her therapist suggests that the only way she can be rid of them is to revisit their source - the painful loss of her baby by submitting herself to hypnosis.
After her unprecedented victory over billionaire Arthur Frobisher, Patty Hewes has the legal world at her feet. Just as she's pondering her next move, Daniel Purcell, a man from Patty's mysterious past, storms back into her life, catapulting Patty into a new legal challenge. What starts as a domestic murder case escalates into the highest reaches of government as Patty unearths a vast conspiracy. At the same time, Ellen is on a mission to take down Patty. She's agreed to act as an informant for the FBI, assisting them in their criminal investigation of Patty and the firm. As Patty unravels the mystery surrounding Daniel Purcell she must also negotiate the perilous minefield both inside and outside her office.
Renowned actress Brenda Blethyn returns as the unorthodox but brilliant DCI Vera Stanhope, leading her diligent team of detectives as they investigate six complex and murderous crimes. Whether crossing the Tyne on the trail of a brutal inner-city murder, or braving the stark natural beauty of Northumberland National Park to follow in the footsteps of her unfortunate victim, Vera will bring her usual brand of searing insight, caustic wit and fearless detection to cases involving family betrayals, toxic obsessions and long-buried secrets. Contains all 6 episodes from Season 11.
Emmy Winner Patricia Arquette stars as Allison, a woman who can communicate with the dead, but for most of her life viewed this gift as a curse. Allison finally submits to her calling when she realizes she can do more good as a medium then a lawyer.
In the summer of 2006, Rob Reilly, a smart suited homicide detective and his partner Cassie Maddox are dispatched to investigate a child's murder, and find a community caught between old and new Ireland. On an altar lies the body of a local teenage girl, the talented Katy Devlin. Her body is found in the middle of an archaeological site, threatened by local developers aiming to build a shiny new motorway. The neighbouring estate, Knocknaree, has never quite got its share of the Celtic Tiger and has been blighted by poverty and unemployment for generations. Moreover, this is the not the first time a child of Knocknaree has been lost. Twenty-one years earlier, in a very different Ireland, three children went missing, and only one came back alive. Memory runs deep in this part of the world, and locals, press and the Dublin Garda soon begin to worry that the cases are linked. Sarah Phelps (The ABC Murders) brilliantly blends the first two books in the Tana French bestselling Dublin Murder series to deliver an eight-part drama full of psychological mystery and darkness.
In her spectacular film debut, Whitney Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her. Hear her. Touch her. But one wants to kill her... And that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel has always heen in control of her glamorous life. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to fall in love. Written by Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Mick Jackson, The Bodyguard has it all: suspense, thrills, romance, peril, passion. And the shining brilliance of two great stars.
A gripping reimagining of the iconic Australian novel that plunges us into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess on Valentine's Day, 1900. Exploring the event's far-reaching impact on the students and staff of Appleyard College and its enigmatic headmistress, theories soon abound, paranoia sets in, and long-held secrets surface, as the Rock exerts its strange power and the dark stain of the unsolved mystery continues to spread.
A collection of four Miss Marple mysteries starring Margaret Rutherford as Jane Marple.
Murder She Said (1961)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Murder Most Foul (1964) In black & white.
6-episode miniseries based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Grace and Jonathan Fraser have the life they always wanted: She’s a successful therapist, he’s an acclaimed paediatric oncologist, and their son attends an elite private school in Manhattan. But for Grace, everything unravels overnight. A violent death. A missing husband. A series of unthinkable revelations. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant star in this gripping HBO limited series from writer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and director Susanne Bier (Bird Box). An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller filled with shocking twists and turns, The Undoing exposes the lies we tell ourselves – even when the truth is right in front of us.
Hold onto your hats as one fearless woman redefines heroism in the perilous arena of international espionage. With equal parts brains, beauty and brawn, Marvel’s Agent Carter ignites a firestorm of adventure, suspense and action-packed fun integral to the origins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 1946, top SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) operative Peggy Carter is still reeling from the loss of Steve Rogers (a.k.a., Captain America). But now that the war is over, peacetime deals her yet another blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Now her “missions” consist of fetching coffee and answering phones—until old acquaintance Howard Stark is framed for selling his deadliest weapons to the highest bidder, and he contacts the one person he trusts to clear his name: Agent Carter. Working as a secret double agent with the aid of Stark’s butler, Edwin Jarvis, Peggy must evade both her SSR colleagues and mysterious foreign assassins as she attempts to track down those responsible and dispose of the weapons before they inflict mass destruction. Relive all the glamour and excitement of Agent Carter - Season 1with this must-own DVD set that will transport you to a by-gone era full of modern-day thrills.
In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile, reluctantly attends a seance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the former detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
After leaving the force for the sake of her family, detective Marcella Backland is devastated when her husband Jason leaves her. Hurt and angry, Marcella is convinced to return to her former role in the murder squad when an unsolved serial killer case becomes active again. While following fresh leads, Marcella discovers her husband has been having an affair with Grace Gibson, one of the directors of the company she is investigating. Things become complicated when Grace is murdered, with Marcella the last to see her alive. After experiencing memory blackouts caused by a potential personality disorder, a desperate and confused Marcella is left to piece together a series of broken memories and complex leads to solve a case she is becoming increasingly involved in.
All 16 episodes from the first two seasons of the BBC drama about two missing persons investigations. In season 1, Tony and Emily Hughes travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver but their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears into the crowd of a busy French street. As the frantic father loses patience with the police and their lack of motivation to search for Oliver, Tony takes matters into his own hands and begins to form a private investigation. In the second season, Julien Baptiste is drawn into another missing persons investigation when a young girl who went missing for more than a decade returns home, having apparently been held captive with another young girl who went missing around the same time.
The hit police corruption drama from the makers of Bodyguard returns. When three police officers are shot dead during the hijack of a seized drugs transport, AC-12 move in to investigate possible police collusion. Stephen Graham stars as John Corbett, the ruthless leader of an Organised Crime Group who hijack a seized drugs transport. AC-12 investigators Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), Detective Inspector Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) suspect corrupt police officers of leaking information. As the body count rises, AC-12 realise they're facing their most vicious adversary yet.
Award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves' bestselling detective series returns for a fifth season as DI Jimmy Perez faces a compelling new single mystery. A human hand washes up on a Shetland beach. A few hours later, more body parts are discovered in a hold-all that has been dumped at sea. The victim is identified as a young Nigerian man, spotted in Lerwick a few days before. What was he doing on the islands? In investigating his murder, DI Perez becomes involved in the search for a vulnerable young woman, leading him to uncover a complex network of human trafficking across Scotland’s remote rural communities.
New season. New murders. Homicide, blackmail, greed, and betrayal: just a taste of what goes on behind the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer County in this deliciously sinister 21st season.
Uncover the darkest secrets lurking amid Shetland’s breathtaking landscapes in all ten series of this acclaimed detective drama. Starring Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Perez in series one to seven and Ashley Jensen as DI Ruth Calder in series eight to ten, alongside Alison O’Donnell as DS Alison ‘Tosh’ McIntosh, Shetland follows complex crime investigations within a close-knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, Perez, Calder and Tosh will need to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing as they unravel grisly murders, sinister crimes and long-buried secrets. And whether their investigations take them far beyond Shetland’s shores or creep dangerously close to home, getting to the truth will always test the detectives and their loyal team to the limit. Originally based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves (Vera, The Long Call). |
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