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A story of friendship and conflict of two people named Yumi, which transcends time and space.
A game of chance begins when a tenement dweller is found dead in his kitchen after putting on a new frying pan he had won at bingo. The frying pan was placed among the prizes, and a mysterious bald person instructed the bingo leader to give it to the person who later became the victim.
Lisa lives with her mother in a small town far from Moscow and works at a school as a teacher of Russian language and literature. A few years ago, a girl got into a car accident and lost her memory. One day, images of a parallel reality begin to appear in Lisa's mind, in which she has a completely different life: a husband, a young son, and a risky journalistic investigation. Wanting to understand what is happening, the girl shares her doubts with Oleg, the new geography teacher. Together they decide to uncover the mystery of Lisa's past.
Gu Ze Jia returns to China as his twin brother Gu Ze An in order to get revenge, and finds himself entangled in a sadomasochistic relationship with Yan Zhen.
Malice Aforethought is a four-part 1979 BBC Two miniseries by Philip Mackie, adapted from Anthony Berkeley Cox's (pen name Francis Iles) 1931 noir novel of the same name. For ten years, Julia Bickleigh has despised and bullied her husband. For ten years Dr Bickleigh has dreamed of romance ... and escape.
Criminal 70s drama about the musicians involved in the theft and trafficking of stolen arts and antiques. Using their touring life as a cover, they evade police for years. Their suspected leader is a well-known celebrity singer. To catch the thieves, the police form an under-cover band led by a brave young officer, a former professional guitarist. By a lucky coincidence, the under-cover musicians become the supporting band for the main suspect, the singer. They need to find the evidence of his involvement in a life of crime, but money, fame, and other temptations get in the way. Will they stay loyal to the police or will they choose the seductive celebrity lifestyle built on breaking the law?
This comedy thriller takes place in an eccentric entertainment club for women in Tokyo. A woman who was hired to be the store manager solves mysterious events with the assistance of the club's good-looking guys. Akira is an ex-editor of a major fashion magazine publisher. As she gets ready for her wedding approaching around the corner, a scandal that she has no clue how she got involved in suddenly takes her job, asset and fiancé. Left with only a wedding dress and a huge amount of debt, Akira gets hired as a store manager of "Indigo", an entertainment club for women, to pay back her debt. The next day, she wakes up only to find Indigo's most popular guy lying dead next to her.
Eight strangers held hostage in a mysterious dimension must complete a series of games in order to escape from a sinister being.
TV series produced by MBS and TOEI, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Seiichi Morimura.
A popular suspense series in which a female prosecutor, Yuko Kasumi, solves difficult murder and arson cases in Yokohama and Shonan, by putting herself in the victims' shoes and judging their "hearts".
DMM TV original work scheduled to be distributed in 2023
After the suicide of his schoolgirl daughter, the protagonist's life falls apart. This loss awakens hidden childhood traumas in him, and the pain turns into a desire for revenge. He begins to target the people he believes are responsible for his daughter's death, one by one. His ex-wife, an indifferent nurse, the school principal, and those closest to him stand in his way. Each murder should have freed him, but on the contrary, it drags him deeper into darkness. This man, who appears calm and kind in society, is a completely different person inside.
After his wife suffers a traumatic accident, an anesthesiologist resorts to a surrogate mother to carry their child, but this illegal step soon leads him into a mysterious and dangerous world.
A game is deciding the fate of a group of friends, as they drop dead one inside their own homes. But how?
Shinko (Ryoko Shinohara) is an accounting auditor who chases after tax evaders and embezzlers that hard working citizens needlessly pay for. Shinko has a knack for solving cases without common sense or standards.
A woman haunted by visions that suggest she killed a missing co-ed discovers that her psychiatrist husband has manipulated her memory to hide his own role in the murder.
Mel, a photo journalist, gets suspicious when her best friend Danny start dating Olivia a wealthy but mysterious woman. She enlists the help of her assistant in investigating Olivia's past and present occupation putting herself in danger.
Fragments of a contemplative essay film drifting between memory and dream. I see an old man haunted by an elusive voice, and a fading childhood quietly watching over him, in a space where prolonged sleep blurs the boundary of what is real. This is a story written from elsewhere a place where I listen, observe, and record his story, in an attempt to weave together images of family, and the quiet violence of growing up.
Two young engineers discover audio recordings testing a new Artificial Intelligence, which aims to replace the human brain.
A young girl finds out that she has to move. In desperation she goes to her boyfriend and convinces him to flee up in the mountains with her. But there she discovers something that changes her perception on life completely.
A wife goes undercover to gain information from the mob to free her husband from jail who has been convicted for embezzlement and murder.
Romeu, a corrupt cop, hires the services of Cid and Alex, to catch a notorious criminal, who left Mexico and is on his way to Galicia, Spain to find the killer of his brother, also trying to catch the same criminal is an FBI agent.
Two dreamers collide on a quiet night
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Erotic novelist Victor Kinski and his partner Miriam live in a remote mansion. Victor is haunted by memories of his Lucía who committed suicide and meets Luisa, a young woman who looks exactly like Lucía.
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
The thriller centers on Alicia Berenson, a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer whose perfect life includes a grand house overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband returns home late from a fashion shoot, and she shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation casts her into notoriety, the price of her art skyrockets and she, the silent patient, resides at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations — a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.
A small village is being terrorized by witchcraft; at least that's what Ajeng, a servant girl who claims to know who has become a witch in secret, says. One by one, people are arrested and put on trial without any solid evidence. In the midst of the chaos, Rama Adiwijaya is suspicious of Ajeng, especially after his own wife is arrested. Twisted facts, revenge, betrayal, and other unexpected things finally began to unfold.
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...
A young attorney, Larry Condon, is on a retainer by a nightclub-owning gangster, to carry and deliver what he thinks are legal papers but he is innocently carrying around millions of dollars in stolen bonds. He meets Helen Griffith when she is arrested in a raid on a gambling house and befriends her. She talks him into taking her to the nightclub of the man he is working for and, while there and unobserved by anyone by Larry, he sees her going through the files and desk of the owner. Who is this mystery woman he just got released from jail, and what is she up to?
A woman finds herself trapped in a basement with no memory of how she got there. As she's tormented mentally and physically by her kidnapper, she slowly regains her memory and realizes who she is and why she was taken.
Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At first Emi is hesitant, but when she pursues her lead she is visited by the ghost herself. And so the fun begins in the courtroom when Prosecutor Osano starts to cross examine.
An elderly, venerable priest goes over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge and everyone except his nurse, Sister Benecia, believes that it was suicide. Sister Benecia finally manages to convince the police department to assign a detective, the cynical, irascible Paul Silver, to investigate. The "Mad Nun" and the "Mad Cop" become a formidable investigative team -- and much, much more.
Marianne visits her dying father in the hospital who tells of a box of old letters that she must promise to destroy. Marianne chooses to do the opposite, and reads them instead. There she finds shocking accusations against her father, who allegedly murdered a young woman 25 years ago.