A tough, "male" story about the fate of Seryoga Nechaev, a guy from a working-class district. It so happened that he had to take on the blame of others and go to jail instead of the dissolute son of a rich businessman. All ten long years of imprisonment, Sergey prepares himself for revenge — for himself to become one of the mighty of this world. After being released, on the way to his dream, Seryoga faces the unsightly side of business and engages in a deadly duel with criminals.
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking.
A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the criminal in a serious case. This was the kidnapping of a newborn baby at a big hospital 20 years ago. The criminal demanded a ransom from the director of the hospital instead of the parents. But after the criminal had the large sum of money in hand, he died in an accident while being pursued by the police. The baby was never found. Kaji Hidekazu, a former hotshot journalist who has become deadwood in the wake of an incident, is ordered by the newspaper to re-investigate the kidnapping case. He finds out the shocking, tragic truth which had been kept under wraps.
In 1980, a booby-trapped bomb accompanied by a $3 million ransom note terrorises a casino in Nevada. As the FBI races against the clock, each step uncovers dark secrets and unexpected motives.
A dark tale of personal horror and inhuman conspiracy that sees four vampires doing their best to navigate the macabre affairs and terrifying realities of surviving the L.A. night.
A bone-chilling tale that unravels the most twisted ties of fate, the trapped secrets of a family and the terrifying horrors an investigator has ever seen.
The smiling parents, the respectable groom, the helpful official... all with evil inside. Britain's Most Evil Killers explores the crimes of Britain's most brutal killers.
Tommy Lynley, an aristocratic detective, and Barbara Havers, a working-class maverick sergeant, share little in common; except a passion for justice. His intellect and her instincts make them an unlikely but formidable team.
Three amateur gangsters: Ruhuan, Dude, and Langlang kidnap the confidante of a wealthy underworld businessman, attracting the country gentry and the three major forces of black and white to start hunting operations separately. Uncle Feng, a rural land manipulator, together with the organizers of the community, dispatched his men to search for the kidnappers, but they returned without success.
Alan Tutorial is a pioneering found-footage web series that presents itself as a disturbing collection of instructional videos created by an unstable and increasingly inhuman narrator named Alan. Framed as bizarre “tutorials,” the series gradually exposes themes of control, abuse, and identity as Alan’s behavior becomes erratic and violent. Its minimal presentation and uncanny realism helped define the modern ARG-style horror format on YouTube.