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n. (plural of crime of passion English)
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Crimes of Passion is the second studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, released on August 5, 1980 by Chrysalis Records. The album is the first to feature Myron Grombacher on drums, beginning a long tenure in Benatar's band that would last into the late-1990s.
The album debuted on the US Billboard 200 album chart the week ending August 23 and held at No. 2 for five weeks in the US in January 1981, behind John Lennon's Double Fantasy. It contains the hits " Hit Me with Your Best Shot" (US No. 9), " You Better Run" (US No. 42), " Treat Me Right" (US No. 18), plus a cover of Kate Bush's international hit, " Wuthering Heights". Crimes of Passion is Benatar's biggest selling career album, having been certified 4x Platinum (for sales of over four million copies) in the United States alone.
The song " Hell Is for Children", which was not released as an A-side single, was also a hit on album-rock stations. A live version of this song from her album Live from Earth (1983) was released as the B-side of her " Love Is a Battlefield" single three years later. The song was featured in the 1981 animated film American Pop, as well as on the soundtrack.
In 1981, Benatar won her first Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance thanks to Crimes of Passion.
The music video for the song " You Better Run" was the second music video ever aired on MTV in 1981.
Crimes of Passion is a 1984 film directed by Ken Russell starring Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin and Annie Potts. The film explores themes of human relationships and mental illness. A mix of sex and suspense, the movie opened to controversy over its content and to negative reviews.
Crimes of Passion (Chinese: 一場風花雪月的事) is a 2013 Chinese romance film directed by Gao Qunshu. It is a remake of the 1997 smash-hit TV series A Sentimental Story.
Crimes of Passion is the fourth studio album by American duo Crocodiles. It was released in August 20, 2013 via Frenchkiss Records.
Crimes of Passion is the English collective name for a series of six feature length crime films from 2013, based on six of the early novels by the prolific Swedish crime novelist Maria Lang (real name Dagmar Lange), written in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The films were co-produced by Svensk Filmindustri and Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4.
The first film was released in Swedish cinemas on 8 March 2013, receiving indifferent or poor reviews by most Swedish critics. The remaining five were released on DVD in Sweden during the autumn of 2013, and they were all made available on the TV4's subscription video on demand service TV4 Play Premium in June 2014. In October and November 2014, the six films were shown on TV4's DTTV service.
On 11 December 2013, BBC Four announced it had bought the British broadcasting rights to Crimes of Passion, with the series premiering on BBC Four on 30 August 2014. The films have been described as Mad Men meeting The Killing.
Usage examples of "crimes of passion".
Most murders really were crimes of passion, or of at least immense stupidity brought on by overwhelming emotion.
There was an upswing in crimes of passion, theft, and robbery, but there had been no riots.
It was true that there were no diseases (other than mental) but, though statistics were lacking, a million were probably killed every twenty-four hours by the myriads of wars between the one million or so little states, by crimes of passion, by suicides, by executions of criminals, and by accidents.
We've had three murders in this barony in the past four years, and all were crimes of passion.
Murder for profit hardly exists any more, but there are still crimes of passion, thank God!
About the only violent crimes were crimes of passion, and those were dealt with and hard and fast by the whole community.