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North By East
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Drukqs
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Virgins
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The Green Ray
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
2000s
Two women in Kabul bound by war and circumstance. Afghanistan through female endurance.
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Drukqs
2000s
Drukqs is a studio album by the British electronic music artist and producer Aphex Twin. It is a double album that includes a variety of contrasting styles, from meticulously programmed beats inspired by jungle and drum and bass, to classical-style, prepared piano, ambient, and electroacoustic pieces. It features th...
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The Green Ray
1980s
The Green Ray, released in North America as Summer, is a 1986 French romantic drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth instalment in Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series. The film was inspired by the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in France on 16 mm film and much of the...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1960s
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. As with le Carré's previous novels Call fo...
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Virgins
Virgins is the seventh studio album by Canadian electronic musician Tim Hecker, released on October 14, 2013 by Kranky and Paper Bag Records.
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American Broadcasting Company
American broadcast television network owned by The Walt Disney Company

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Twenty Years After
novel by Alexandre Dumas; sequel to The Three Musketeers
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Open Hearts
2002 film by Susanne Bier

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Venus in Furs
1869 novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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