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Best in Show: A Movie For Every Mood

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Notre Dame chapter.

Everyone has a go-to movie (or two, or three) for rainy days and nights in—I can watch every film on this list again and again and again. This compilation of movies has something for every taste and every mood, so the next time you’re trapped inside by April showers, look no further!

Animated

Ratatouille (2007)

Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava

If you like food, and France, and you haven’t seen this movie, you’ve been living half a life for the last eight years. Talking animal quota= filled.

Cult Favorite

The Princess Bride (1987)

Director: Rob Reiner

This modest box office success grew into a smash success once it hit VCR, and now it would be “inconceivable” not to include this film on any list of favorites.

Romance

Love Actually (2003)

Director: Richard Curtis

It doesn’t have to be Christmastime for you to enjoy this star-studded, heartwarming masterpiece. (The style is kind of a precursor to films like Valentine’s Day.)

Chick Flick

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Director: Gil Junger

Late 90’s retelling of The Taming of the Shrew set in a Seattle high school12 years before Bridesmaids, female screenwriting team Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith dreamed up one of the funniest (and cutest) movies of all time. Shakespeare references? Check. Baby Joseph Gordon Levitt? Double check.

Action

Batman: The Dark Knight (2008)

Director: Christopher Nolan

I have something of a Heath Ledger fetish, but even putting that aside, this is probably my favorite movie of all time.

Drama/Thriller

Road to Perdition (2002)

Director: Sam Mendes

1930’s Chicago gangster film—Credit goes to my senior year cinema teacher for introducing me to this one. If you’re looking for a dark, yet beautiful movie, this is as good as it gets. Plus, one seldom goes wrong with Tom Hanks.

Horror

Identity (2003)

Director: James Mangold

I’m no horror movie connoisseur, but if I was to watch this one again, I would watch it in a group, and I would enlist a big, strong friend to walk me back to my dorm afterwards.

Comedy

Dodgeball (2004)

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

An absolute classic that simply never gets old.

Musical

Hairspray (2007)

Director: Adam Shankman

Words cannot express how much I wanted to be in this movie—the hair…the clothes…the dancing…Zac Efron…

Foreign

Run, Lola, Run (1998)

Director: Tom Tykwer

For when you’re having your super artsy friend over and you want to discuss themes like color as characterization and time and all that.

Sci Fi

Super 8 (2011)

Director: JJ Abrams

A delightful, yet underrated film. While shooting a homemade movie, a group of kids accidentally capture some extraterrestrial activity on camera.

Oldie

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Combine some good-natured Old Hollywood satire with lively tap sequences and unforgettable songs and you get this timeless classic.

Happy watching!

xoxo HCND

 

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Ariana Zlioba is a sophomore Political Science major and a proud resident of Pasquerilla West Hall. She spends her free time exploring every minor Notre Dame has to offer and imagining the editor's notes she will write after she succeeds Anna Wintour as editor-in-chief of Vogue. Here is what she likes: Stephen Colbert, high heels, and that coconut coffee Waddick's has sometimes. Here is what she doesn't like: Permacloud. At any given moment you'll most likely catch her dashing across campus in between meetings, Dance Co. rehearsals, and other meetings.