Netflix has dropped the trailer for Murder in Monaco, and if you didn’t know better, you’d swear they were teasing the next glossy Riviera thriller—just with more violin flourishes and fewer superyachts…
Instead, we’re getting a true-crime documentary that leans hard into the melodrama surrounding the 1999 death of billionaire banker Edmond Safra, a case that has fuelled intrigue, conspiracy theories and eyebrow-raising dinner-party debates for more than two decades.
The trailer opens not with hushed tones or misty-eyed testimonies, but with a fabulously irritated interviewee, who turns out to be none other than Lady Colin Campbell, socialite, author and unapologetic dispenser of sharp one-liners. One cutaway she’s describing venomous widow-energy, the next she’s storming off set. If Netflix needed a scene-stealing opener… well, they got it.
In between Lady C’s theatrics, the trailer jumps between archival news footage from 1999, Monaco police cordons, breathless anchors, and jittery handheld shots of the Riviera, before swooping into crisp HD drone shots of the Principality glowing like a jewel box. The contrast is delicious: the Monaco of today versus the Monaco that confronted one of its most shocking scandals.
With whispers ranging from caretakers and family drama to the Russian mafia, the documentary promises to untangle (or at least re-tangle) every theory that ever swirled around the case. And while the trailer doesn’t promise answers, it does hint at a binge-worthy cocktail of mystery, high society, and fabulous personalities.
Murder in Monaco arrives on Netflix on 17 December. True-crime fans, mark your calendars!
Check out the trailer below.
