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American Gods

★★★☆☆
Shadow Moon has recently been released from jail, and is hired as a bodyguard. He soon becomes embroiled in a titanic struggle between the "Old Gods" and "New Gods" and finds himself questioning the nature of belief in modern America.

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The Perfect Couple

★★★★☆
A high-society wedding in affluent Nantucket goes completely off the rails, as the body of the Maid of Honour is discovered on the beach...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

★★★★★
Young Dorothy Gale is swept by a tornado from Kansas to a magical land with wizards, witches and several marvelous creatures, but all she wants is to get back to Kansas...

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Howl's Moving Castle

★★★★☆
Sophie Hatter has been cursed to be an old woman, and seeks out the fearsome wizard Howl to help her undo the curse.

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Heart of Darkness

★★★★☆
Deep in the African jungle, Kurtz ran a business procuring ivory and is treated like a god by the natives. But lately, something entirely more sinister is afoot... Kurtz has gone insane.

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Catch-22

★★★★☆
If you want to fly more missions, you're insane, making you eligible to be grounded. But if you want to be grounded, it means you're sane enough to keep flying.

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The Burglar in the Closet

★★★☆☆
Another heist gone wrong, as Bernie is hiding in the closet when a woman is murdered.

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Train to Pakistan

★★★★☆
Mano Majra, a sleepy village is caught in the crossfire as it sits right on the fault line where a great nation is being divided in two.

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Before The Coffee Gets Cold

★★★★☆
A fable about table at a restaurant which allows a patron to time travel... as long as they meet certain conditions.

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The A.B.C. Murders

★★★★★
Poirot tracks a serial killer with a peculiar modus operandi... he murders people in alphabetical order.

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The Pale Criminal

★★★☆☆
Tracing a blackmailer leads Bernie Gunther to the trail of a series of missing young girls... and a plot to discredit Jews that goes all the way to the top

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Right Ho, Jeeves

★★★★★
Wooster is at Brinkley Court, trying to get Gussie Fink-Nottle away from newts long enough to get him hitched, while also trying to mend his cousin Angela's love life and saving his Aunt Dahlia's cook Anatole.

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