Blood of Victory
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In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an...
David McK (3425 KP) rated From Russia With Love (1964) in Movies
May 8, 2023
Here, Bond is sent to Istanbul to obtain a decoding machine from a Russian defector in what is obviously a honey trap, but there are strings being pulled behind the scenes by SPECTRE - the organisation itself only name-dropped in the previous film - who are out for revenge for the defeat of Dr No in the previous film.
This is the film with the cringe worthy Gypsy encampment fight.
On the other hand, it's also the one with Roas Klebb and her shoes ...
A Strangeness in My Mind
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A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza...
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
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Unexpectedly returning to England from Istanbul, famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot finds...
Whodunit
Body Count
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Any bloody death will lead Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman out onto the dark streets of...
The Red-Haired Woman
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From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers...
Fiction Romance
Art Therapy: Mosaics: 100 Designs Colouring in and Relaxation
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Colour your stress away with 100 beautifully drawn mosaics and azulejos in the latest instalment of...
Psychogeography
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Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post-millennial meditation on the...
Hinterland
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Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives...
Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History
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An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women,...