Sara Murphy
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Part love story, part mystery, The Possessions is a sensuous, scary and utterly thrilling debut. Who will prevail - the woman or the ghost? For five years Edie has worked for the Elysian Society, a secretive organisation that provides a very specialised service: its clients come to reconnect with their dead loved ones by channelling them through living 'Bodies'. Edie is one such Body, perhaps the best in the team, renowned for her professionalism...
2) Girl one
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"A dark ode to power and femininity, about a young woman whose search for her missing mother reveals the secrets of her past--including her time spent on the Homestead as one of nine babies born via parthenogenesis"--
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Handsome, gifted, wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy - witty, urbane, and elusive - was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and...
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1997
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"The Little Rock Central High School integration crisis did not end in 1957 when President Eisenhower sent a portion of the 101st Airborne Division to protect nine black students. The turmoil was entering its second year in 1958 when Arkansas governor Orval Faubus invoked a hastily passed state law to close the high schools rather than obey the federal court orders that would integrate them." "A group of respectable, middle-class white women, faced...
7) Gemini
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[2018]
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A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.
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2019
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A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
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A record collector and his roommate, a teenager and her best friend, and a rookie reporter and her metal-head supervisor, chase clues of a murder case. It's all just a day in the life of a group of eclectic New Yorkers as they grapple with the mundane, the unexpected and the absurd. Starring Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Philip Baker Hall and more.
10) Licorice pizza
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[2022]
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The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.