Noir Dramatization

The Stranger (1946), the third film directed by the legendary Orson Welles, is a film noir thriller of the highest order. In the wake of World War II, Mr. Wilson, an official with the Allied War Crimes Commission (played by the legendary Edward G. Robinson), is on the trail of Franz Kindler, an escaped Nazi who was the chief architect of the regime’s mass genocide. Wilson allows a concentration camp commandant, Conrad Meinike, to escape in the hope that he will lead him to the elusive Kindler.

A Desperate Race Against the Clock to Save a Kidnapped Schoolgirl In this heart-pounding, gripping thriller, a gifted federal agent, Sam Caviello, faces his most dangerous mission yet. Amidst a treacherous landscape, a desperate plea for help reaches Caviello from an unlikely source. When a young girl is abducted from her Boston elementary school, her desperate mother turns to Caviello who is renowned for his unmatched expertise in tracking missing persons. Even though the kidnapping falls outside his jurisdiction, Caviello feels an unwavering obligation to assist. As the FBI focuses on a ...

Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve. ASAC Matthew Roarke exiles Singh to Portland to work as an assistant to his old mentor, retiring profiler Chuck Snyder - but a mysterious break-in alerts Singh and Snyder to an active threat revolving around an old case: a series of brutal murders of homeless teenagers on the streets of Portland and Seattle.

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is now married, living in the resort town of Poodle Springs. Once again, he sets himself up as an investigator and soon finds himself in the middle of blackmail and murder....