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Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Italiano
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Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The beautiful Yorkshire village of Keldale is scandalised by the gruesome murder of local farmer, William Tey. The Yorkshire police are obliged to team one of their investigators with a London Superintendent, which places well spoken Superintendent Thomas Lynley with the tricky and resentful detective, Barbara Havers. While their relationship struggles, their findings become ever more interesting and when the investigators organise a reunion between...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Deutsch
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Description
In this sweeping yet intimate romantic drama, which is also Germany's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, acclaimed director Dominik Graf illuminates the lives of two bold young women and one of classical literature's most celebrated figures with charm and contemporary energy. BELOVED SISTERS depicts the unconventional romance between two aristocratic sisters and a rebellious poet who took the European literary...
5) Proxima
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
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Sarah is an astronaut and lives alone with her daughter. When she is chosen to be part of a space mission, it creates chaos in their relationship.
7) 52 Tuesdays
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week (only on Tuesdays) these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.
8) Adam
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Arabic
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The Official Oscar entry for Morocco, Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually,...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A mother teaches her daughter to be unfazed by death. But after an event that shatters their idyllic life the daughter must cope with the repercussions. As she matures, it's clear that this beautiful dangerous woman has some very peculiar desires.
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English
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Set on a stretch of highway in a budget motel managed by Bobby (Willem Dafoe), just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, THE FLORIDA PROJECT follows six-year-old Moonee and her rebellious mother over the course of a single summer. Willem Dafoe was nominated for an **Oscar**, a **Golden Globe** and a **BAFTA** for his performance. Nominated for Best Director and Best Feature at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Official Selection at the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Zamiatou is the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returned from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her beautiful daughter.
12) Marie's Story
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Français
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Description
At the turn of the 19th century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manage a school for deaf girls. There, the idealistic Sister Marguerite sees in Marie...
13) Fish Tank
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Language
English
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When Mia, an unruly teen, meets her mother's sexy new boyfriend, she can't ignore his flirtatious advances and submits to her indecent desires, in this scandalous drama.
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
A powerful mother-daughter drama is at the centre of this film. Rooted in disagreement-both personal and political-the film follows the consequences of a war that leaves them with an impossible choice. When a peace agreement between the FARC rebel movement and the Colombian government looks as though it will put an end to half a century of conflict, 30-year-old Yira visits her mother in Colombia after spending 10 years in exile in Cuba. Yira has become...
15) Lolita
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An iconic adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov Classic, starring Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith and Dominique Swain, LOLITA tells a disturbing tale of tortured and forbidden love. Humber Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to a small New England Town to take a teaching position, searching for lodging he visits the home of a single mother Charlotte and her 14 year old daughter Dolores (Lolita). Upon seeing Dolores, Humbert...
16) My Zoe
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Language
English
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After an unexpected tragedy strikes, a divorced geneticist looks to protect her daughter by taking the young girl's fate into her own hands.
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As a young mother with bipolar disorder struggles with the looming departure of her daughter (the one force of stability in her life), a daughter struggles with the decision whether to stay local for college where she can remain the stable rock in her mother's life, or to detach and go to her dream college across country. Official Selection at the **Mill Valley Film Festival**.
19) Beloved
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
A beguiling tale of romance, love and lust about a mother & daughter each striving to find the one. Starring Catherine Deneuve and real-life daughter, Chiara Mastroianni.
20) Hatching
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Finnish
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12-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. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
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