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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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English
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In the tranquil setting of the South Downs a killer is at large as a young girl suffers a cruel death, the second such death in the area. Law enforcement officers are under extreme pressure to apprehend the culprit and suspicion falls on a mild-mannered music teacher who is wholly innocent of the crime. Lies are told in open court that ensures his conviction and he is sentenced to life imprisonment. Young Detective Sergeant Josie Prentiss is deeply...
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Luther volume 1
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English
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DCI John Luther returns to work after a spell of leave following the traumatic arrest of the serial killer Henry Madsen. Luther's first case is investigating the murder of the parents of child genius, Alice Morgan. He quickly deduces that Alice is respons
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Luther volume 2
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English
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Luther must out maneuver a trained sniper on a mission to kill police officers. But as the body count rises, he has to uncover the killer's true motives. Meanwhile, Alice has been investigating Luther and to his horror, seems to know what happened to Mads
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Luther volume 3
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English
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Kirsten Ross, a young mother, has been abducted. Luther realizes that this is the work of Lucien Burgess, a collector and writer of the occult, who was suspected of the murder of another woman, Grace Allen, 10 years previously; but Burgess was never charg
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Luther volume 4
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English
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When a serial killer goes on the rampage, Luther must put his personal life aside and delve inside the murderer's mind to discover what is driving him to kill so many girls, and why. Meanwhile, serial killer Henry Madsen, the man responsible for Luther's
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Luther volume 5
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English
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When an art dealer's wife is taken hostage at gunpoint, Luther leads a tense investigation. The hostage takers want payment in diamonds so, stalling for time, Luther substitutes a bag of replacement diamonds from the Serious Crime Unit's evidence safe. Lu
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Luther volume 6
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English
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Framed for murder, the only person DCI John Luther can turn to for help is Alice. DCI Reed remains at the heart of the police team, quietly shoring up the evidence against Luther from within. Even Rose Teller, Luther's former stalwart supporter, now leans
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English
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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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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 1
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English
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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.
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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?
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 4
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English
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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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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 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 5
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English
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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.
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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 7
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English
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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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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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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 2
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English
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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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Murderers and Their Mothers volume 9
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English
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Tragic Sandy Hook incident, where Adam Lanza killed his mother before shooting 20 children dead at the elementary school.
20) 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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