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The Dreamers

The Dreamers

2004 ·
·3.7·1,255 Ratings ·208 Pages
“ Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. ” ― Rumi
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    2000·
    ·3.45·173 Ratings
    An isolated cottage deep in the heart of the Cotswolds. A writer's den, as dusty, gloomy and full of exotic objets d'art as the cell of a medieval monk. Two men sit opposite each other, one of them talking, the other typing. But why, in such already sombr
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    ·3.8·1,647 Ratings
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    2001·
    ·3.73·3,678 Ratings
    Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic a
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    2004·
    ·3.95·121 Ratings
    Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key soc
  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    2003·
    ·3.94·2,276 Ratings
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    2003·
    ·3.46·476 Ratings
    Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to its inhabitants, the mad genius Dr. Ox has unleashed a veil of oxyhydric gas over the town—his own living laboratory—in an attempt to spice things up. In his amusin
  • The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment

    2006·
    ·3.43·322 Ratings
    Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the in
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