Movies from Aubrey Plaza

La Ciénaga

The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
“La Ciénaga is beautiful and fun to watch because the world Martel builds is so realistic; it’s almost like you’re a fly on the wall spending time with this family in a country home in Argentina,” says Plaza before stressing her love for female talent: “I think women directors are the coolest.”
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
In keeping with Plaza’s love for European cinema, she also has two Spanish-language films in her top ten. Pedro Almodóvar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, which the actor describes as “a dark, twisted union” of obsession and love, and La Ciénaga by Lucrecia Martel.
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Fanny and Alexander

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
“I watch Fanny and Alexander every year. There’s obviously some dark stuff in it, but it’s a great comfort movie to me,” Plaza explains, adding how it gives her a sense of comfort: “Whenever I’m shooting a film, and I have to go live in a far-off location, I put it on while I’m trying to settle in.”
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Scenes from a Marriage

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
Unable to decide on which Ingmar Bergman picture deserves a place, Plaza has the acclaimed Swedish director’s 1974 film Scenes From a Marriage share a spot with his 1982 film Fanny and Alexander.
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8 1/2

8 1/2
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
Two quintessential pieces of Italian cinema claim further places on Plaza’s list: the bleak neo-realist classic, Bicycle Thieves, released in 1948, and Federico Fellini’s dreamlike magnum opus, 8½.
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Bicycle Thieves

A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
Two quintessential pieces of Italian cinema claim further places on Plaza’s list: the bleak neo-realist classic, Bicycle Thieves, released in 1948.
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Horse Girl

A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
HORSE GIRL is now on @netflix and it’s not just for horse girls! Giddeyup!
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Come Swim

COME SWIM is a diptych of one man's day; half impressionist and half realist portraits.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
Come Swim 💙
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Uncut Gems

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
There are so many great movies tonight, and I'm not allowed to pick favorites, but man, I really loved "Uncut Gems."
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Nuts in May

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
What's your favorite comedy? - Nuts in May. (0:20)
Books from Aubrey Plaza

The White Album

New York Times Bestseller: An “elegant” mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker). In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture. From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton to witnessing First Lady of California Nancy Reagan pretend to pick flowers for the benefit of news cameras, Didion captures the paranoia and absurdity of the era with her signature blend of irony and insight. She takes readers to the “giddily splendid” Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the cool mountains of Bogotá, and the Jordanian Desert, where Bishop James Pike went to walk in Jesus’s footsteps—and died not far from his rented Ford Cortina. She anatomizes the culture of shopping malls—“toy garden cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes”—and exposes the contradictions and compromises of the women’s movement. In the iconic title essay, she documents her uneasy state of mind during the years leading up to and following the Manson murders—a terrifying crime that, in her memory, surprised no one. Written in “a voice like no other in contemporary journalism,” The White Album is a masterpiece of literary reportage and a fearless work of autobiography by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times Book Review). Its power to electrify and inform remains undiminished nearly forty years after it was first published.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
...I’d want signed by the author: The White Album by Joan Didion.
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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness. The Bell Jar broke the boundaries between fiction and reality and helped cement Sylvia Plath's place as an enduring feminist icon. Celebrated for its darkly humorous, razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, it continues to resonate with readers today as testament to the universal human struggle to claim one's rightful place in the world.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
...makes me feel seen: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
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The Crying of Lot 49

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
…sealed a friendship: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
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Valley of the Dolls

The All-Time Pop Culture Classic!Dolls: red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight—for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn’t matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry—only to find that there is no place left to go but down—into the Valley of the Dolls.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
…I never returned to the library (mea culpa): Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann.
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A Moveable Feast

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
...I consider literary comfort food: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.
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Lost Children Archive

WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearA Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly; TIME; NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; GQ; The Guardian; Chicago Tribune; Dallas Morning News; and the New York Public Library“The novel truly becomes novel again in Luiselli’s hands—electric, elastic, alluring, new.” --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times"Impossibly smart, full of beauty, heart and insight . . . Everyone should read this book." --Tommy OrangeFrom the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl, driving from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. Their destination: Apacheria, the place the Apaches once called home.Why Apaches? asks the ten-year-old son. Because they were the last of something, answers his father.In their car, they play games and sing along to music. But on the radio, there is news about an "immigration crisis": thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States, but getting detained--or lost in the desert along the way.As the family drives--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, harrowing adventure--both in the desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.Told through several compelling voices, blending texts, sounds, and images, Lost Children Archive is an astonishing feat of literary virtuosity. It is a richly engaging story of how we document our experiences, and how we remember the things that matter to us the most. With urgency and empathy, it takes us deep into the lives of one remarkable family as it probes the nature of justice and equality today.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
...I brought on a momentous trip: Lost Children Archive by Valerie Luisielli. [It was] the book my character, Harper Spiller, read in White Lotus and I read in real life at the same time… in sync with shooting and tried to time out to finish as it was ending… long five months.
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Women

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
...has the best title: Women by Charles Bukowski.
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Liarmouth

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All.Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her "Liarmouth" - until one insane man makes her tell the truth.John Waters's first novel, Liarmouth, is a perfectly perverted "feel-bad romance," and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge.It's just as deliciously witty and delightfully deviant as you'd expect from the man William Burroughs called the "Pope of Trash" Independent 'In Waters' world, dysfunction is beautiful, degradation is powerful, and there's nothing to fear because the grotesque is proudly on display' Buzzfeed'Waters is undoubtedly among the greatest American comedians of all time' Far Out
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
...I last bought: Liarmouth by John Waters.
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Olga Dies Dreaming

'Deeply satisfying and nuanced . . . a tender exploration of love in its many forms' Observer 'Gonzalez couples engrossing political intrigue with engagingly flawed characters you can't help but root for' Mail on Sunday It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers.Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one percent, but she can't seem to find her own . . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.Twenty-seven years ago, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord-turned-radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream - all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
…I’d like turned into a Netflix show: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez.
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The Giving Tree

As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a household classic that will now reach an even wider audience. Never before have Shel Silverstein's children's books appeared in a format other than hardcover.Since it was first published fifty years ago, Shel Silverstein's poignant picture book for readers of all ages has offered a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit.And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns, the new book from Shel Silverstein!
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
…I’d pass on to a kid: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
TV Shows from Aubrey Plaza

Kevin (Probably) Saves the World

One day while returning home to stay with his widowed twin sister and her daughter, Kevin Finn, a self-centered man whose life brings him more trouble than he bargained for, is recruited by a celestial being named Yvette, who enlists Kevin with a new purpose in his life, which is to save the world.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
I cannot wait for this! @JasonRitter is one of the funniest people I've ever met and now the world will be destroyed by his talent. WATCH 😈
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Lucha Underground

Lucha Underground introduces U.S. audiences to the high-flying, explosive moves of lucha libre. An ancient combat tradition, watch as good and evil wage war in a gritty battleground called “The Temple.”
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
BEHOLD. MY NEW FAVORITE SHOW WITH MY NEW FAVORITE ACTOR LUIS FERNANDEZ GIL
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Catastrophe

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
YOU GUYSsss. MY FRIEND AND LIFE COACH @robdelaney HAS A NEW SHOW THAT YOU SHOULD WATCH RIGHT NOW
TV Shows from Aubrey Plaza

Twin Peaks

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
What TV show did you binge-watch most recently? I’m not much of a binger, but I’ve been bingeing Twin Peaks.
Music from Aubrey Plaza

Queen of the Lot

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
I grew up with them in Delaware since I was 12. I’m across the country from everyone back East, so it’s really special to me that I can listen to my friends.
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Plastic Ono Band

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
When I was moving into my first apartment by myself in [L.A.’s] Beachwood Canyon, I was listening to a lot of Beatles, I guess because Beachwood Canyon has such a weird, Beatles-y vibe. It’s sunny and happy, and driving down that big hill from the Hollywood sign, listening to the Beatles, it just makes sense.
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I Love You

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
When I’m shooting, I play an acoustic guitar in my trailer between takes. I like to give myself assignments, and one of them was learning this song.
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Get Happy - Live

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
The song I want played at my funeral Judy Garland – ‘Get Happy’ “I mean, I’d have to pick a Judy song for sure. I like the idea of this one because it’s, like, even though I’m dead people could come together to get happy with each other. Does that sound weird?”
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I Can't Make You Love Me

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
I mean, this is just such a beautiful song.
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Stronger Than Me

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
I play a lot of Amy Winehouse in my trailer. It’s go-to comfort music for me. I really like her song ‘Stronger Than Me' too.
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Back To Black

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
I think ‘Back To Black’ is probably the best song ever.
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Dead And Gone (feat. Justin Timberlake)

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Chris Pratt and I would all blast out this song in the make-up trailer during lunch. It kind of became our pick-me-up song and we’d all be singing along at the top of our lungs.
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The Man Who Sold the World

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
This song gets stuck in my head, like, all the time. Especially the intro. But I don’t mean that in an annoying way. I love this song, so I like having it stuck in my head. David Bowie is one of my all-time favourites too.
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Judy At Carnegie Hall

Aubrey Plaza
Actress
I’m pretty sure that I when I was about 12 I bought my local music store’s entire stock of Judy Garland albums. I did a book report on her for school, so I started watching her movies and became kind of infatuated with her.
Podcasts from Aubrey Plaza

The Reductress Minute

The Reductress Minute brings you the most biting satire and topical stories from the lens of Reductress. Each episode is hosted by the real writers and editors of Reductress, with Reductress’ most popular headlines, articles read by your favorite comedians, and off-the-cuff chats with the editors. It's all the news that's fit to speak!
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Actress
Hey freaks of the night @Reductress finally has a podcast! 📻👯 Mouth Time with Reductress by Reductress.