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Assassins
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Assassins
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Assassins
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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13 Assassins
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Blow Out
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Libra
1980s
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA ope...
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
1990s
After narrowly escaping Wei Zhuang's assassins, Jing Tianming, Ge Nie, and their allies seek refuge in Mechanical City, the Mohist School's impregnable stronghold hidden deep in the mountains. Protected by hundreds of traps and mechanical beasts, the fortress remains one of the few places untouched by the Qin Empire...
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13 Assassins
2010s
Thirteen samurai plot to take down a sadistic lord in Miike's epic reimagining of the 1963 original. The final forty-minute battle is relentless.
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Spy x Family
2020s
A spy, an assassin, and a telepath form a fake family. Cold War comedy meets genuine warmth.
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The Assassin
A Tang dynasty assassin struggles with duty and compassion. Visual poetry as martial arts.
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Blow Out
Blow Out is a 1981 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It stars John Travolta as a sound technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, unintentionally captures audio evidence of an assassination. Nancy Allen stars as Sally Bedina,...