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Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Language
English
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"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
3) Hellbender
Publisher
Shudder, RLJEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Locked away from the world by her mother who has convinced her she has a chronic illness, teenaged Izzy finally escapes into town for some expected rebellion. A night of drinking and high school cruelty unleashes a new kind of hunger within her, but when she goes to her mother for answers, she keeps them tightly guarded, not knowing Izzy's true nature is about to burst forth and devour everything.
5) Proxima
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven-year-old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. When Sarah is chosen to be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called "Proxima", it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After her adoptive parents die, a Black optometrist searches for her birth mother and discovers that she is a poor white factory worker.
7) My Zoe
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Following a divorce, geneticist Isabelle is trying to rebuild her life. She has a new boyfriend and plans to revitalize her career. But ex-husband James can't accept this and makes her life difficult as they co-parent their daughter Zoe. When a tragedy strikes, the already broken family's world is shattered, and Isabelle decides to take the girl's fate into her own hands.
8) Hatching
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Finnish
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Twelve-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
10) Petite maman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1181
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
C�eline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's...
11) Lovely & amazing
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2002.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses"--Container.
12) The photograph
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother's early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block.
13) Saving face
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Wilhelmina is a Chinese-American lesbian and a young surgeon who has kept her sexual orientation secret from her conservative Chinese community in New York. But when her widowed mother becomes pregnant and is kicked out by her own parents, Wil suddenly has to juggle her mother's secrets with her own.
14) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Man in Grey. This tale of treachery put both the Gainsborough melodrama and actor James Mason on the map. The star-to-be plays Lord Rohan, a cruel nobleman who marries the naive and sweet-natured Clarissa for the sole purpose of producing an heir; meanwhile, Clarissa's conniving best friend, Hesther, plots against her for her own nefarious ends.
Madonna of the Seven Moons. A lurid tale of sex and psychosis is among the wildest of the Gainsborough...
16) Wild at heart
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lula knows she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend, Sailor, no matter how many times her mama tried to kill him. But when she and Sailor hit the road to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld.
17) Alma's Rainbow
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Follows the story of three African American women living in Brooklyn, New York. Teenager Rainbow Gold finds her mother, Alma, clashing with her free-spirited aunt, Ruby, over their advice to her, with Ruby encouraging them both to embrace life and love.
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