New Prime Video show with 'masterful' acting takes you inside 'celebrity prison'

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Prime Video has transformed some of South America's most infamous real-life crime stories into its latest streaming sensation with Tremembé, a tense, high-gloss drama that takes us inside the gates of Brazil's unofficial 'celebrity prison'. ‌

The series revisits cases that once dominated newspaper headlines - from Suzane von Richthofen to Elize Matsunaga - housing them under one roof and illustrating how alliances, rivalries and shifting power dynamics moulded daily life within the facility. ‌

Behind the drama, the real crimes were notorious. Von Richthofen was convicted in 2006 for masterminding the murders of her parents, Manfred and Marísia, executed by the Cravinhos brothers in 2002. ‌

Elize received a sentence for murdering and dismembering her husband, businessma