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1) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
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Description
One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within...
2) True grit
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
4) Dean
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dean is an illustrator whose unwillingness to deal with the recent death of his mother means escaping his hometown of New York for an interview with an ad agency in Los Angeles. His retired engineer dad Robert takes a more regimented approach to grief, including putting the family home up for sale. Both father and son set out on their own paths to find a new normal as unexpected circumstances and potential new love interests threaten to thwart all...
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Somerset, England. Trainee veterinarian Clover Catto returns to the farm where she grew up after hearing news that her brother has died in what appears to be a suicide. Finding the family home in a state of horrendous disrepair following the 2014 floods that devastated the area, Clover is forced to confront her father Aubrey about the farm, the livestock and, crucially, the details surrounding Harry's death.
6) Fatherhood
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A father brings up his baby girl as a single dad after the unexpected death of his wife who died a day after their daughter's birth.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, living with his mother, spending his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys, and secretly hooking up with his girlfriend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first...
8) Ramen Shop
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
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The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the way to his grandmother's heart.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, César Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
10) Give or take
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
A man's estranged father unexpectedly dies, so he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father's temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.
11) Proof: a play
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's father who hopes to find some hint of Robert's genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels...
13) Nakom
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Niger-Kordofanian
Description
Upon his father's sudden death, a talented medical student must return to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family's survival.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the complete text of the play, along with critical and contextual material including articles by Miller on his play, the stage designer's account of the original production, reviews of the play's opening night on Broadway in 1949, critical essays on the play, general essays about Miller, and analogous works.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Korean
Description
An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the street and...
16) Haider
Publisher
Reliance Home Video & Games
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Hindi
Description
Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', Haider - a young man returns home to Kashmir on receiving news of his father's disappearance. Not only does he learn that security forces have detained his father for harboring militants, but that his mother is in a relationship with his very own uncle. Intense drama follows between mother and son as both struggle to come to terms with news of his father's death. Soon Haider learns that...
17) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
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