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Tennessee Williams
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)

Summary: After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation. She tries to pass him off as an upper-class suitor to appease the spinster aunt who controls her family's fortune, but when she loses a diamond, it places their tenuous relationship in further jeopardy.

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Akale (2004)

Summary: As a young adult, Neil (Prithviraj) had an overbearing mother, Margaret (Sheela), who complained about Neil's carefree ways & worried about finding a groom for Neil's gimpy & introverted sister Rose (Geethu Mohandas). Neil had brought home a friend, Freddy Evans (Tom George), to be introduced to Rose, but learning that Freddy was already engaged, saddens Rose & over time, she became more withdrawn & loses her sanity. Later in life, as a successful but troubled writer, Neil reminisces all this.

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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)

Summary: A failing star (Helen Mirren) is faced with a life-style change when her rich husband (Brian Dennehey) suddenly dies while they are enroute to Italy. She then sets off in a series of flings with gigolos found for her by an aging countessa (Anne Bancroft). Each contact spirals further out of control until she becomes obsessed with one young man (Olivier Martinez), who initially treats her well, but then with disdain. (imdb)

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)

Summary: On a leave of absence from the school where she teaches, Blanche DuBois (Jessica Lange), arrives in the French quarter of New Orleans for a visit with her pregnant sister, Stella (Diane Lane), and her husband, Stanley (Alec Baldwin).

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The Glass Menagerie (1987)

Summary: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister. (imdb)

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The Glass Menagerie (1973)

Summary: Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point. (imdb)

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Boom (1968)

Summary: Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs

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This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Summary: A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge (http://imdb/title/tt0061089/plotsummary)

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The Night of the Iguana (1964)

Summary: A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. (imdb)

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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Summary: Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. With him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. (imdb)

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Period of Adjustment (1962)

Summary: George Haverstick, a Korean war veteran, hastily marries Isabel, whom he met in hospital while he was recovering from a nervous condition. To Isabel's horror, they drive to Florida on their honeymoon in an old hearse. They spend much of the time quarreling, and then, on Christmas eve, they visit George's war buddy, Ralph Baltz. However Ralph's wife Dorothea has just walked out on him, taking their child. Each couple then observes the marital difficulties of the other couple. (imdb)

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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Summary: Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace... (imdb)

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The Fugitive Kind (1960)

Summary: Val Xavier (Marlon Brando), a drifter of obscure origins arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence (Anna Magnani), a sex-starved woman whose husband Jabe M. Torrance (Victor Jory) is dying of cancer upstairs. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere (Joanne Woodward), the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family, who covets his snakeskin jacket as much as his body and tries to seduce him in the cemetery. Val is more attracted to the mature Lady and gets her pregnant. (imdb)

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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Summary: The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable (Hepburn) dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine (Taylor). What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. (imdb)

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Summary: Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. (imdb)

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Baby Doll (1956)

Summary: Steamy tale of two Southern rivals and a sensuous 19-year-old virgin. (imdb)

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The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Summary: An Italian-American neighborhood in Louisiana is disturbed when truck driver Rosario Delle Rose is killed by police while smuggling. His buxom widow Serafina miscarries, then over a period of years draws more and more into herself, trying to force her lovely teenaged daughter Rosa to do likewise. On one eventful day, Rose finally breaks away; Serafina learns of Rosario's affair with another woman; and a new carefree, handsome Italian truck driver enters her life... (imdb)

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Summary: Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans (imdb)

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The Glass Menagerie (1950)

Summary: This first movie version of the Tennessee Williams play about a faded, aging Southern belle, her shy, crippled daughter and her "selfish dreamer" of a son more or less sticks to the original story, except for a compromise ending which strives to be more upbeat. (imdb)

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