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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Release Date: Dec 27, 2006
Rated: aberrant behavior involving nudity, violence, sexuality, and disturbing images
Runtime: 2 hr. 27 min.
Genres: Art House/Foreign, Suspense/Thriller
Director:Tom Tykwer
Cast:Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman, Karoline Herfurth. Full cast + crew

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An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas...more

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STRANGE by djnb40
Movie was really strange but good!

Beautiful Movie. Will make you feel invincible. by Valdo
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