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The Head (StarzPlay, from Sun)

Setting murder mysteries against the backdrop of frozen wastes is not a new idea – as fans of Nordic noir would no doubt tell you. But few have actually been set in the Antarctic – Sky’s Fortitude perhaps came closest in terms of landscape by taking place in Arctic Norway. The Head, then, is a little different right from the off. The tale takes place at a remote research station populated by scientists from various different countries. When the summer staff return home, leaving behind a skeleton crew to keep things ticking over, a series of grisly murders, beginning with a decapitation, take place. Months of radio silence ensue until spring returns – and that’s when the trouble really starts. John Lynch, Alvaro Morte and Katharine O’Donnelly are among the international cast.

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (Netflix, from Wed) Netflix’s latest foray into the true crime documentary genre comes from director Joe Berlinger, whose previous works include Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and Paradise Lost. The premise behind it is to explode the mystery and mythology behind infamous locations, which each series focusing on a different place. It begins with LA’s Cecil Hotel, a place already associated with violence, suicide and murder before Canadian student Elisa Lam lost her life there in mysterious circumstances in 2013. After being missing for almost three weeks by the time her naked body was discovered in a water tank atop the establishment. Lam’s odd behaviour captured in the last known footage of her has only served to deepen the mystery surrounding her death.

Red Dot

(Netflix, from Thu)

The streaming giant’s first Swedish feature film follows the fortunes of David and Nadja, a young couple in their late twenties, are struggling to make a go of their ailing marriage. They refocus their efforts after discovering she is pregnant, and try to breathe new life into the relationship during a hiking trip to the north of the country. But their supposedly romantic break takes a decidedly nasty turn following an argument with two hunters. On the run in the freezing wilderness with gun-toting, sadistic maniacs on their trail, the pair face a battle to survive – what’s more, the past is also about to catch up with them... Nanna Blondell and Anastasios Soulis head the cast.

We’ll Take Manhattan (BritBox, from Thu)

In the early-to-mid 1960s, David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton were the ‘It’ couple of Swinging London. Bailey was one of a new generation of groundbreaking photographers making a name for themselves at the time, while Shrimpton, who became his muse, was one of fashion’s top models. He later said of her: “She was magic and the camera loved her too. In a way she was the cheapest model in the world – you only needed to shoot half a roll of film and then you had it.” In 1962, the pair journeyed to New York for a prestigious one-week assignment for Vogue, during which they fell in love. This acclaimed featurelength drama recreates what happened, including the photos they shot. Aneurin Barnard, Karen Gillan and Helen McCrory star.

Red Dot on Netflix