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41) Little women
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.
43) 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...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
45) 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.
46) Columbus
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana; a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, an architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, they explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin's estranged relationship with his father, and Casey's reluctance...
47) The photograph
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
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.
48) Saving face
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
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.
49) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
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.
50) 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.
51) A taste of honey
Series
Criterion collection volume 829
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
52) Stella Dallas
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. When it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is the epitome of bravery.
53) Alma's Rainbow
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
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.
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...
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