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Now showing — The Office · 5 works

  • Aggretsuko Anime · 2010s

    Red panda Retsuko continues to work at her cyclic office job, with the occasional stress-venting via death metal karaoke on the side. With the company of her newfound friends Gori and Washimi, life is more enjoyable than ever before. But some new shake-ups to her status quo threaten to add more stress to her life. A...

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • The Official Story Film · 1980s

    The Official Story is a 1985 film from Argentina, associated with Luis Puenzo. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • The Bureau Television · 2010s

    French intelligence officers live double lives. The most authentic spy series ever made.

    IdentityPowerSurveillance
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Books · 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...

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • The Wire Television · 2000s

    Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.

    PowerSurveillanceNature
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