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We discover the secrets of the mafia with the help of testimonies from the FBI, DEA employees and former gangsters.

Las Muñecas De La Mafia is a 2009 Colombian telenovela produced by BE-TV and broadcast by Caracol TV. It's based on Juan Camilo Ferrand and Andres Lopez's book "Las Fantásticas". They also wrote the scripts for the television series. The telenovela will debut soon on the Telefutura Network. Series debuted on May 3, 2010 after the Vecinos finale. The show ended July 2010 in the U.S. It talks about the story of Brenda, Olivia, Violeta, Renata and Pamela. They get into trouble throughout the series because they get involved with some mafia guys from "El Carmen" in Colombia.They all have sad endings. Pamela immigrates, at the end of the story, to the United States of America to try to get away from trouble and be close to her father, who was a pilot and end up in jail because he was captured by DEA taking cocaine to U.S in a plain, and ends up as a maid but tells Brenda she is happy and having a great life. Olivia ends up in jail for having a fake wedding with a Braulio Bermudez and getting some of his properties. Violeta dies when the two mafia opposite sides were going to end a war that was going on in between them.Renata also dies because she was force by erick, to pay money she owe him, to carry drugs in her stomach to the United States and no one of her loved ones knew because she had no identification on her. Brenda ends up being pregnant by Braulio, she never saw him again, because he was taken to an US jail. This is a very exiting story to see and it shows how easy life is never a good choice, might be nice and easy at the beginning but some day all ends.

How, from the 1920s to the present day, financial power has gradually strengthened a hidden alliance with criminal organizations around the world.

Mafia Nights is an Iranian television series in the family, social and enigmatic genres. This series is based on the Mafia game. In each season of this series, 12 participants from cinema and television actors and other celebrities are invited to play. The game is completely real without the intervention of the directing team.

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Six friends who were extremely closely knit in their college days reunite for Tanya's bachelor party in Madhupur. However, all six of them are bound by a horrifying incident which had torn them apart for years. The reunion serves to rake up the trauma afresh, turning an idyllic trip into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. The friends embark on a round of Mafia, the popular game which many of us enjoyed playing in our childhood. Instead of serving as a bonding activity, the game brings out the worst in them, fuelling each of them to act on their hidden agendas filled with deceit and betrayal.

The main character of the story is veteran officer Mikhail Samylov who loses his friend Igor Makarov in Syria. Mikhail comes back to his port hometown Yantarsk to help Makarov’s widowed wife. He blames Igor’s death on himself. He doesn’t know, though, that Makarov is actually alive and turns out not who he seemed to be. A small port town becomes a battlefield of life and death. A chain of crimes always leads to one man — owner of the port Kupriyanov. Lost at what to do with his life, Mikhail, tormented by the pangs of guilt, will have to solve the crimes and find a new reason to keep on living.

Chun and Pat Boung meet unexpectedly in a mall and Pat Boung and her friend saves Chun from a mafia group in Thailand while he was visiting on a business trip. He returns home safely to Hong Kong and is just amazed and intrigued by her. So he sends one of his men to find out about this girl. Chun is now the leader of a mafia, but was only inherited into the mafia because he was an orphan and he was his adopted sister's father. He becomes loyal and shows leadership. Pat Boung's dad is a very known man in Thai society, but he unfortunately gets hooked onto gambling in Chun's casino in Hong Kong. Chuun figures out that the man was Pat Boung's father. He gets the man into big debt with them, he manipulates Pat Boung's father to sell her to him and he promises that he will not harm his daughter in anyway and seemed liked a good man to Pat Boung's father. So he gets the money he sold his daughter for thinking that he would gamble it and get all the money he owned back and then the deal could be forgotten and he could have his daughter back. At this time, he loses all the money again and ends up in bigger debt than before but this time with no daughter. He returns to Thailand, but before he gets there Chun sends his men for Pat Boung in Thailand. Chun's bodyguards Chen Hao and Ban are sent to get Pak Boung but in the process of going back to Hong Kong, Pak Boung manages to escape the two bodyguards and she is saved by Min. She thinks she has nothing left in her life because of what her father has done and that they are so far in debt she is a lost soul. Min decides to take Pak Boung in and take care her as if she was his wife but what Pat Boung and Min doesn't know is that Chun's bodyguard already found them. She falls in love with him because he is the only one that is there that cares for her. She and Min fall in love, but that doesn't stop Chun. He finds her and takes her from Min. Min goes to Hong Kong and tries to get Pat Boung back in numerous times, but doesn't succeed. During the process while Pat Boung is forced to live with this "cold hearted" man, she tries every available way to escape Chun to get back to Min. In the process of trying to escape from Chun, she sees that he is not just cold hearted man that he also a very caring man. Unable to get close and help Pak Boung, Min decides to manipulate Chun's little sister Gye' Yhong to get back at Chun for taking Pak Boung from him. As time goes by, Pak Boung starts to fall in love with Chun as Yong starting to fall in love with Min but just as their relationships starts to mend its gets even more complicated when Chun's childhood lover, Lilly, comes back and stir up more trouble for all the couples...

The story of the 1986-87 "Maxi-trial" against Cosa Nostra in Palermo, Italy. Instructed by the Anti-Mafia pool, led by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the story of this historical process and of its exceptional numbers is recounted through the real images from court audiences enriched by reconstructions with fictional scenes.

"Mafia Nights" is a fascinating game show in which a serial killer named "Zodiac" targets the citizens and mafia of Sicily. In this program, Mohammad Bahrani is the host of the game

Palermo, 1979. The Giammarresi are a normal family — father, mother, a ten year old son and a daughter of sixteen — struggling with the problems of everyday life. Seemingly ordinary problems, oh, and the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. Inspired by Pierfrancesco “Pif” Diliberto's film.

Mafia Nights is an Iranian television series in the family, social and enigmatic genres. This series is based on the Mafia game. In each season of this series, 12 participants from cinema and television actors and other celebrities are invited to play. The game is completely real without the intervention of the directing team.

Founded in the 17th century, the triads have built their myth around fighting China's enemies. Who are they? What role do they play in Chinese culture and history? What business are they involved in? What are their strategies?

Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia

Four ambitious and sexy women, who've been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their complex personal lives in the city that never sleeps. They've created their own "boys club" to protect each other and discuss their ups and downs as they try to have it all. What good is it to break the glass ceiling without girlfriends to share in your success?

The Italian Mafia is often referred to as an octopus, its many arms symbolising the clan’s countless branches, with which it ominously and sinisterly penetrates all areas of society. But Italian investigators consider this comparison dangerous and erroneous, as the Mafia rather more resembles one of evolutionsmost intelligent entities: the parasite. This documentary, based on Sicilians in their campaign against the world’s oldest Mafia organisation, the Cosa Nostra, explains how it succeeded in penetrating the brain of the system like a parasite. In doing so, barely known chapters of recent Italian history are brought to light. The documentary shows the example of the Cosa Nostra, the Mafia is now a global company and their influence despite all search successes of recent years rather than growing waning.

Trevor McDonald embarks on an eye-opening journey inside the secretive world of the American Mafia, gaining unprecedented access to people who have experienced first-hand, the money, glamour and violence of the United States’ most famous organised crime network. In this two-part documentary series, Trevor delves into the lives of people with a fascinating story to tell, some of whom have never appeared on television before.

When the leader of a global mafia gang has to swap bodies with his former lover, also a single mother, hilarious chaos ensues.

Mafia is a kind of friendly and family entertainment where two groups of mafia and citizens have to identify each other by trial and error in order to finally drive the mafia out of the city and the citizens win. In the "Mafia Nights" program, "Mohammedreza Alimardani", the actor and host of our country, is present as a leader or organizer in the game, and in fact, the command of the game is in his hands. There are many actors in this competition, and the process of the competition is as follows: in each season, 12 actors are invited to participate in this competition, and finally, the competition starts with 2 groups of 12 male artists and one group of 12 female artists.

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

Just after he is released from prison after 25 years, New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a “crew” from a group of unlikely characters, to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.

The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.

Stalked by a beastly white tiger, Atsushi Nakajima has no idea that the menace lives inside him—a power that catches the attention of the Armed Detective Agency. Using inhuman abilities to combat crime, this team takes Atsushi under the wing of their most eccentric member, Dazai. Together, they tear through mafia-muddled mysteries while enemies keep an eye on the tiger’s lofty bounty.

"No Good" Tsunayoshi Sawada is next in line to become boss of the powerful Vongola mafia family. The Vongolas' most powerful hitman, a cursed gun-toting infant named Reborn, is sent to teach Tsuna how to be a boss.

At the age of eight, Park Joo Hyeong left for Italy after being adopted. Now an adult, he is known as Vincenzo Cassano and employed by a Mafia family as a consigliere. Due to warring Mafia factions, he flies to South Korea where he gets involved with lawyer Hong Cha Young. She is the type of attorney who will do anything to win a case. Now back in his motherland, he gives an unrivalled conglomerate a taste of his own medicine—with a side of his own version of justice.

Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.

Porsche agrees to guard mafia heir Kinn for his family's sake, but fighting off danger soon turns into fighting his own feelings.

Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.

The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.

Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.

Supposedly Japan's greatest swindler, Makoto Edamura gets more than he bargained for when he tries to con Laurent Thierry, a real world-class crook.

A teenaged gang leader in New York City faces his abuser and rival gangs alongside a photojournalist from Japan as they investigate a deadly new drug.

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix the entire nation. Not even consulting detective Sherlock Holmes can stand in his way. It’s time for crime to revolutionize the world!

The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, who together took their vision beyond the drug trade and into the world of hip-hop. The drama, per Starz, will tell a story about love, family and capitalism in the pursuit of the American dream.

Two assassins who never miss their mark must juggle fatherhood with their demanding job when they suddenly find themselves raising a four-year-old girl.

Raku Ichijo is an average high school student. He also happens to be the sole heir to the head of a Yakuza Family called the Shuei-gumi. 10 years ago, Raku made a promise… a secret promise with a girl he met. They promised one another that they will “get married when they reunite.” Since then, Raku never let go of the pendant the girl gave him.

On a terraformed post-disaster Mars, a group of child security agents rebel against the adults who betrayed them and the oppressive Earth government.

When the Cosmic Invading Grand Racing Crew, Hashiriyan intends to expand their territory with Earth being their next target to take over, five genius mechanics join forces with an alien machine named Bundorio Bunderas to create their own supercars and special equipment to defend the planet as the Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger!

Just an ordinary boy from the Sofia suburbs becomes the first bulgarian undercover cop. Forced by his father when he was young to lie and cheat, Martin becomes the perfect liar. That skill, and also the hatred of the 'underworld' makes him the perfect match for a dangerous mission - to infiltrate the crime organisation of a rich and powerful businessman. While infiltrating and living in fear of being uncovered, Martin falls in love with the most inappropriate woman - Djaro's girlfriend, Suni. Just when he gains the trust of the mobsters, it appears that the real enemy is in the police. Martin is alone against all, facing difficult decisions.

When the Pillars suddenly appear on Earth, threatening all life, it's only the act of the god Odin that offers humanity salvation. Providing a means of fighting back, he gives Earth the Valkyries, young female pilots with supernatural powers and spirit fighter planes. These skilled troublemakers, all young, risk their lives in a long-running war—but the final battle is fast approaching!

A. S. (Ad Stella) 122 ― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. Suletta Mercury, a lone girl from the remote planet Mercury, transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.

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The best dancers of the country will once again take to the stage on the TNT TV channel along with the start of the New Dances show. Now there will be no mentors and their teams, but only face-to-face dance fights between participants in four categories: solo, duets, children and teams. More than 400 people or 144 creative units passed the selection in four categories. They will determine the best of the best in a fundamentally new format - in a face-to-face battle: the loser immediately leaves the project, the winner moves on. The prize fund of the project is 10 million rubles. The main persons of the new project will be those with whom the word “dancing” has been associated for the last 7 years: Miguel, Lyaysan Utyasheva, Ulyana Pylaeva and other heroes loved by the audience. Each issue has a new star jury, which includes both professionals from the dance industry and those who do not distinguish between crump and locking.

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Celebrity Big Brother is a British reality television game show in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize being donated to the winner's nominated charity at the end of the run.

Relationships are put to the test by asking pairs of friends, family members and couples to design tattoos for each other.