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The Quiet American
Drama
English
2002
In pre-war Vietnam, a jaded journalist leads a relatively undisturbed existence with his beautiful mistress. His complacency is soon disturbed by the arrival of a young American aid worker, whose interventionist political zeal jars with the older man - a problem made worse by the interest the American poses in the journalist's mistress.
The Quiet American
Drama
Black Narcissus
Drama
English
1947
A group of nuns at a Himalayan outpost try to maintain a school and hospital, despite formidable odds and the emergence of deeply repressed passions.
Black Narcissus
Drama
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