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Polish
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In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 10
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English
Description
Richard Kuklisnki, known as the 'Iceman,' claimed to have killed up to 250 in his three-decade-long career as a hitman for the mafia, all of which he kept separate from his average middle-class existence. How much of Kuklisnki's psychopathic personality was passed on by his parents? And how much of his traumatic upbringing was invented by Kuklinski as a way of rationalizing his crimes?
3) 12 Angry Men
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English
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The defense and prosecution have rested. The jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 6
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English
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One of Britain's most infamous killers. Dennis Nilsen murdered 15 young men in London during the late 70s and early 80s. But what led this seemingly normal civil servant to start killing for company?
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 7
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English
Description
Serial child-killer Robert Black preyed on young girls across the country. Black's biological mother left him shortly after his birth, while his foster mother neglected and physically abused him.
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Series
Murderers and Their Mothers volume 8
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English
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Poland's `vampire' Leszek Pekalski murdered dozens of men, women and children. Pekalski was subjected to extreme physical violence on a daily basis, and was neglected and often starved by family.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 2
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English
Description
Fred and Rosemary West murdered 12 women including 2 of their daughters in one of the most shocking cases Britain has ever seen.
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Series
Murderers and Their Mothers volume 3
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English
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With a sunny exterior, Jed Allen's case shook the world when he killed his mother, stepfather, and six year old half-sister. Experts examine the dysfunctional family of the Wolverine.
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English
Description
Conjoined twins Dorothy and Vivian Hamilton (Daisy and Violet Hilton) have a successful
vaudeville singing act. Their manager Hinkley (Allen Jenkins) thinks a publicity stunt will
reinvigorate their career. He pays stunt shooter Andre Pariseau (Mario Laval) to fake a romance
with one of the twins. Vivian dislikes Andre and wants nothing to do with the scheme, but
Dorothy agrees and falls in love.
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Series
Murderers and Their Mothers volume 4
Language
English
Description
Dr Harold Shipman, was Britain's most prolific serial killer with at least 215 known victims. Was Shipman simply addicted to murdering by morphine or did his upbringing turn him into a mass murderer?
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Series
Murderers and Their Mothers volume 9
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English
Description
Tragic Sandy Hook incident, where Adam Lanza killed his mother before shooting 20 children dead at the elementary school.
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Series
Murderers and Their Mothers volume 5
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English
Description
Joachim Knychala, the Polish serial killer who earned the ghoulish nickname `Frankenstein', attacked his victims with an axe. He brutally murdered 5 women and attempted another 7 over 8 grisly years.
13) Crime of Passion
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Language
English
Description
Kathy (Barbara Stanwyck) leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill (Sterling Hayden) but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a very dangerous path.
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Series
Murderers and Their Mothers volume 1
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English
Description
At 14 years old, Daniel Bartlam killed his mother with a claw hammer then sought to cover his tracks by concocting a story that came straight from a soap opera.
15) Doomed to Die
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English
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Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth (Melvin Lang), downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming (William Stelling).
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English
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Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson (Robert Lowell) starts hanging around with shady characters. After falling in love with lounge singer, Kitty Reed (Mary Beth Hughes), Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he confronts the truth, his past, and his parents.
17) The Fatal Hour
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English
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When Captain Street's (Grant Withers) best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur.
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English
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Bank teller Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a mirrored room. Only a dream but Vince finds he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing the mirrored room.
19) Nightmare
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English
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A musician (Kevin McCarthy of "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" fame) has a nightmare in which he killed a man. When he wakes up, he finds evidence that the crime really took place and tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a homicide detective (Edward G. Robinson). A Film Noir classic!
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English
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A daughter suffers from neglect by her rich parents. She & her friends turn to crime by dressing up like guys, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, & having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, & they run afoul of the law, apple pie, & God himself. A J.D. extravaganza written by Ed Wood!
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