The movie Murder in Monaco revisits the 1999 death of Edmond Safra — a Lebanese-Brazilian billionaire banker who died in a fire in his Monaco penthouse under circumstances that were, from the start, difficult to accept at face value. His nurse confessed and served time, but the documentary’s entire premise is that the confession explains very little about what actually happened, and to whom it might have been useful for Safra to be gone.
The Monaco backdrop is not incidental — the film uses the setting to underscore how wealth and geography and political adjacency create environments where certain investigations go only so far. This isn’t the tightest true crime documentary you’ll see, and it has a slightly maximalist quality in how it presents competing theories, but the underlying story is genuinely strange and underreported enough that it holds your attention anyway. If the Safra case is new to you, start here. If you already know it, there’s still enough here to make it worth a watch. Streaming on Netflix.