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The true story of Princess Margaret's affair with the gangster-turned-movie-tough-guy John Bindon in the late '60s.

With crime rampant in 1940s, Boston mayor gave the nod to the creation of a task force known as "The Shadows," the first police force to work with criminal informants, wear plain clothes and go undercover.

Tells the story of an LAPD officer, recently exonerated in the murder of a high school honor student, who visits the boy’s father at his barbershop. While receiving a straight razor shave, he listens to the father recount the story of his son’s life.

Revolves around a serial killer in 1930s Chicago who stumbles upon a time traveling device.

In 1990, the police department in Flint, Michigan devises a plan to create a fake wedding in order to lure all the local drug dealers to one party and arrest them.

The President is murdered during a private dinner, and a female Secret Service agent has till morning to discover which guest is the killer before a peace agreement fails and leads to war.

Set in Los Angeles, the story will connect two events from May of 1974 - the unsolved murder of an LAPD cop and a shoot-out in South Central LA between the LAPD and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

In the early 70's, Jon Roberts, an injured Vietnam veteran by the age of 20, ends up involved in gangland takeovers of NYC nightclubs. He goes to Miami where he deals billions of dollars of cocaine for the Medellin drug cartel and ultimately spends 10 years in prison.

Lawrence Horn, a former record producer and Motown Records executive, is sentenced to life in prison for hiring Detroit-based hit man James Perry to murder his wife, quadriplegic son and the wealthy family's overnight nurse at their suburban home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Horn's son is the victim of medical malpractice and as the result of a subsequent lawsuit, has a trust worth nearly $2 million, which his father stands to inherit in the wake of his death. Detectives discovers that Perry used how-to book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors" as a guide to execute the murders. The families of the victims go on to file a class-action lawsuit against the Colorado-based publisher Paladin Press. The attorneys representing the families then hire Rodney Smolla, a First Amendment attorney and professor at William & Mary Law School, to consult on the historic case, which takes five years to settle amidst a series of shocking and bizarre developments.

Revolves around a group of retired New York City cops who form a renegade unit to bring down the most vicious criminals in the city.

Follows 44-year-old hitman (Billy Summers) who is considering retirement when he accepts one last job from a regular client.

Hired by a spurned lover to expose the suave Frenchman who has run off with his client’s girlfriend, private eye Lew Archer follows a trail that leads to a deep conspiracy as the mysterious paramour is connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a ton of gambling debts.

The project centers on law enforcement turning to a jailed mobster to help prevent a possible terrorist attack.

An undercover agent gets caught in a complex plot and must elude drug dealers and international agents if he hopes to survive.

The granddaughter of the Chinese-American detective begins adventures of her own.

Described as having an edgy narrative with a buddy comedy bent on the order of a Lethal Weapon.

Set in Tokyo, a Western outsider with a grim past becomes embroiled in a global turf war between Yakuza (Japanese mafia) and old-school Cold War Russian mobsters.

A British media executive hastily marries an American death row inmate as a loophole to avoid being deported and losing a huge buyout of her company. After new evidence is found exonerating her "new" husband, he is released from prison and the two are forced on the run to save their lives and work through their unique marital issues.

When his sister goes missing in London, a young man sneaks into the city to find her and quickly uncovers a dark trade in immigrant sex slaves. He takes action to break it up, becoming an unexpected media star, but also a target of the criminal syndicate behind it all.

As the biggest shipment of MDMA (ecstasy) hits the U.S., a global mix of criminal opportunists scramble to leverage the chaos, eliminate their competition and make the big score.