Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling eleven series being released this week.
We're splitting the list into two posts: this one covers international series; the previous one covers US series.
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Beck
Episodes 7-9
Hes' got no style, no flash and he's middle-aged. But Swedish detective Martin Beck (Peter Haber) is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so they can be put away for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald Larsson (Mikael Persbrandt), is the opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically-correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap to cross. He'll do anything to get information from a suspect, including enhanced interrogation techniques.
It's classic good cop/bad cop, and together with their team they bring down dangerous criminals lurking in the seedy Stockholm underworld.
These feature-length episodes, which aired on an irregular basis from 1997 through 2001, are in Swedish with English subtitles.
Also being released this week on DVD: Beck Episodes 10-12.
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Midsomer Murders
Mayhem & Mystery Files
The "Mayhem & Mystery Files" are fifteen cases — previously released on Sets 13 through 16 — from this popular series set in fictional Midsomer County and based on characters created by crime novelist Caroline Graham.
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Nebbie e Delitti (Fog and Crimes)
Season Two
A passion for solving difficult cases makes Franco Soneri (Luca Barbareschi) Ferrara's best investigator but also its most difficult. At crime scenes he stands apart, inscrutable, chomping on a cigar and trying to see what others are missing. He's brusque and irascible but he and his team manage to discover what others would like to keep hidden: addictions, pedophilia, secret loves, and even old injustices left over from World War II. His skill at the job may help him get at the truth, but it takes its toll on his relationship with the beautiful Ukrainian lawyer, Angela Cornelio.
This Italian crime drama is based on characters created by novelist Valerio Varesi. The episodes, which originally aired in 2007, are in Italian with English subtitles.
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New Tricks
Season Eight
Detectives Jack Halford (James Bolam), Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong), and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman) retired years ago. Then sexy superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman) talked them into joining her Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad. Ever since, they've been cracking cold cases, proving that old-school sleuthing skills are still the best way to solve a crime.
This eighth season of the popular series originally aired on BBC during Summer 2011. Two additional seasons have been commissioned by the network.
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Special Branch
Set One
This gritty, realistic police procedural focuses on the Special Branch of London's Metropolitan Police — a force dedicated to stopping terrorist activities and countering espionage in the nation's capital.
In the role of DCI Alan Craven, George Sewell provides a committed but world-weary epicenter to a dangerous, ever-shifting landscape of spies, assassins, surveillance, and sudden death. Working with a team of officers that includes the younger and brasher DCI Tom Haggerty (Patrick Mower), the veteran cop confronts explosive issues with life-or-death consequences.
Though designated as Set 1, the episodes included here are actually from the third season of the series, which originally aired on ITV in 1973.
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Wallander
Series Three
Three episodes of this English-language remake of the Swedish crime drama based on a character created by Henning Mankell are featured on this set.
In "An Event in Autumn" — based on a short story by the author — Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried at the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the shore, Wallander searches for the connection.
In "The Dogs of Riga" — adapted from a novel by the author — the corpses of two Latvian men, covered in mafia tattoos, are discovered in Ystad harbor. When Wallander travels to Riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption.
And in "Before the Frost" — adapted from a novel by the author — a childhood friend of Linda Wallander goes missing. Wallander and Linda worry for her safety when they find links between her and a murderer.
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