Tagged: marya recommends

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Billy Liar

Seminal film from the British New Wave, Academy Award-winner John Schlesinger directs Tom Courtenay as Billy, a working-class boy with lofty dreams and too many women.

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Hangover, The

The Hangover is an American comedy that is about… well, the film’s title speaks for itself. It follows Doug and his best friends Phil, Stu and Alan traveling to Las Vegas for Doug’s bachelor party.

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Irene (1940)

Largely forgotten musical romance from RKO Radio Pictures, starring Academy Award winner Ray Milland and Anna Neagle. The film features a stunning technicolor sequence.

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Personal Property

Personal Property is a 1937 romantic comedy helmed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Robert Taylor and the original blonde bombshell, Jean Harlow.

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Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce is the story of Mildred, a housewife whose unconditional love for her child would lead her to be involved in a murder investigation.

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Rushmore

Rushmore is the second feature-length film in director Wes Anderson’s filmography, telling the story of Max Fischer, a very unlikeable, precocious, extracurricular overachieving teenager from a private school obsessively in “love” with Ms. Cross.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

In Year 3, Harry Potter must go back to Hogwarts to course his third year in magical school, but after an angry outburst against the Dursleys and a chance encounter with a big black dog, he finds out a crazy dark wizard follower of You-Know-Who called Sirius Black is out to get him.

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Kid, The (1921)

Charles Chaplin’s The Kid follows a man and a little kid that have been brought together by fate, when his mother abandons him and he ends up in poor neighborhood living with a tramp.