In 1949, Helene Hanff is an aspiring writer who scrapes by as a script reader in New York City. Her main passion in life is old books, preferably out of print volumes of obscure work by English writers...
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London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West...
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New York, circa 1900. On the eve of their wedding, esteemed philosopher Leopold and his bride-to-be Ariel accept an invitation to spend a weekend at the country home of Andrew, a Wall Street stockbroker and part-time inventor...
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Tina and Nancy, two teenagers in a cosy American suburb, experience the same terrifying dream in which they are attacked by a disfigured man in a hat, with razor-sharp knives attached to his fingers...
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In the 1920s, Adela Quested makes the journey from England to India, where she intends to marry her fiancé, Ronny Heaslop, the magistrate of a provincial town named Chandrapore...
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When it is discovered that the Soviets have managed to duplicate a revolutionary microchip capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion, British Intelligence suspects that the chip's manufacturer, Zorin Industries, has been infiltrated by Russian agents...
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57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth...
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David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors...
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In 1933, Annie is a ten-year-old orphan living in a New York orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her life is not an easy one but she consoles herself with the thought that one day she will be reunited with her parents...
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Arthur Bach is a millionaire playboy who spends most of his time cruising New York in his chauffeur-driven limousine, tanking up on hard liquor at any bar he comes across...
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Gotham City is a sprawling metropolis mired in crime and the detritus of social decay. The town's district attorney, Harvey Dent, is fighting a losing battle against an army of hoodlums led by criminal mastermind Carl Grissom...
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Executive Terry Lambert soon begins to regret having an affair with his boss's wife, Sylvia. One night, Sylvia witnesses an attempted rape through the bedroom window of Terry's apartment...
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Barbara and Adam Maitland are the owners of a large country house in New England, which they plan to decorate during their summer holidays...
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Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans...
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Reporter Waldo Winchester recalls that one of the wildest nights of his career was New Year's Eve 1928. It all began at Mindy's diner on Broadway, with a criminal mastermind, the Brain, treating a hard luck gambler named Regret (after the only horse he won a bet on) to a slap-up meal...
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Outwardly, Lumberton appears to be the model American small town - law abiding, tidy, peaceful. But surface impressions can be deceptive, as college student Jeffrey Beaumont discovers one fateful summer...
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Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information...
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Gathered around a table at the Carnegie Deli in New York are a group of comedians who delight in recounting their favourite anecdotes about Danny Rose, a spectacularly unsuccessful talent agent...
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William S. Burroughs was arguably the most influential and original writer of the 20th century. One of the defining figures of the Beat Generation, he became an emblem of America's counterculture movement of the 1960s...
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Accompanied by his girlfriend Vicky, Burt is on his way to Seattle to take up his new post as a physician. Whilst driving down a deserted road bordered by cornfields, Burt knocks down a child who is standing motionless in the middle of the road...
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Arnie Cunningham is a 17-year-old high school geek whose life is made Hell at home by his straitlaced parents and at school by knife-wielding bullies...
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The Greek god Zeus is outraged when King Acrisius of Argos sends his daughter Danaë and her newborn son Perseus out to sea in a sealed coffin...
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When Egeon, a Syracusian merchant, arrives in Ephesus he is arrested and sentenced to death, as a law forbids his countrymen from entering the city...
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Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who, despite being a happily married man, has begun an affair with an air stewardess, Dolores Paley...
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In Ancient Britain, King Cymbeline reigns at a time of fragile peace with the Roman Empire. Since his two sons were stolen from him in childhood, Cymbeline has but one surviving heir, his daughter Imogen...
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France, circa 1760. Behind a façade of scrupulous respectability, the Marquise de Merteuil delights in inflicting cruelty on those who do her wrong through her meticulously calculated romantic intrigues...
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Human civilization is virtually at an end, obliterated by a mysterious plague that is animating the dead, turning them into flesh-eating zombies with disgusting table manners...
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Travelling salesman Willy Loman has lived his life convinced that he and his family are destined for success. Now aged 63 he realises the hollowness of his dreams...
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In the distant future, the advanced worlds of the Spacing Guild are dependent on a spice known as melange, which can be found on only one planet, Arrakis, a desert world that is also known as Dune...
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