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An American spy in World War II is tasked with broadcasting Nazi propaganda and discovers he may have become the monster he was pretending to be.
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The Sympathizer
A communist spy captured after the fall of Saigon writes a confession that becomes a searing meditation on identity, loyalty, and the American war in Vietnam.
Bluebeard
An ageing abstract expressionist tells the story of his life and his art, and the painting he won't let anyone see conceals the trauma he survived.
Dr. No
A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
Mercury Pictures Presents
Maria Lagana, who fled Mussolini's Italy as a girl, works her way up at a low-budget Hollywood studio during the Second World War, where everyone is hiding something and the government wants propaganda.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
The Orphan Master's Son
A North Korean orphan survives by reinventing himself through the state's mythology, in a novel about identity under totalitarianism.
Deadeye Dick
At twelve, Rudy Waltz fires a rifle from the cupola of his father's house in Midland City, Ohio, and kills a pregnant woman eight blocks away. He spends the rest of his life, and a fair number of recipes, trying to live it down.
Amsterdam
Two old friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, meet at the funeral of a woman they both loved and make a pact, which leads to a darkly comic disaster in Amsterdam.
The Quiet American
A jaded British journalist in 1950s Vietnam befriends an idealistic American aid worker, not realising the American's quiet mission will cost innocent lives.
Little Children
In a Boston suburb, Sarah, an unhappy stay-at-home mother, and Todd, the handsome stay-at-home father the playground mothers call the Prom King, start an affair, while the town panics over a sex offender who has moved back in with his mother.
Group Portrait with Lady
A researcher pieces together, from interviews with everyone who knew her, the life of Leni Pfeiffer, a Cologne woman who fell in love with a Soviet prisoner of war during the Second World War.
Fight Club
A young man starts an underground fight club that metastasizes into a nationwide anarchist movement, and the narrator realises too late that he and the leader may be the same person.