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Another Country
Why this pick
Its public-school world turns privilege and ceremony into a pressure cooker for forbidden desire, with the same ache of emotional restraint and class-bound self-discovery.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1987 2h 20m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Like Maurice, it lets desire emerge through guarded behavior and social constraint, then finds liberation in a romance that feels physical, tender, and hard-won.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Why this pick
A politically sharper but similarly humane 1980s British love story, where a gay relationship pushes against class expectations and the constrictions of its social world.
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The Go-Between
Why this pick
Its sunlit English country-house beauty conceals social cruelty and forbidden longing, making it a strong match for Maurice's E. M. Forster-like sensitivity to class and repression.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During a trip to a windswept beach, Maurice Hall, an 11-year-old schoolboy, receives instructions about the "sacred mysteries" of sex from his teacher, who wants to explain to the fatherless boy the changes he would experience in puberty.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Hugh Grant
Clive Durham
James Wilby
Maurice Hall
Rupert Graves
Alec Scudder
Simon Callow
Mr. Ducie
Mark Tandy
Risley
Miles Richardson
Undergraduate
Harriet Thorpe
Barmaid
Kitty Aldridge
Kitty Hall