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Sparkling repartee enlivens this witty comedy in which a model of social rectitude learns from an unexpected source the difference between true morality and its appearance. Centering around the arrival of a mysterious woman hoping to break into London's society, this was Wilde's first great stage success. Lady Windermere learns from a friend that Lord Windermere is spending a great deal of time with a Mrs. Erlynne, and fearing that he is being unfaithful...
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Amgash novels volume 1
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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...
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After a personal loss, Carol (Blythe Danner) finds the everyday activities that have given her life structure – her regular bridge game, gardening, a glass of wine or two – have lost their luster. With the support of three loyal girlfriends, Carol decides to embrace the world, embarking on a new relationship and discovering that life can begin anew at any age. Nominated for Best Film at the **Cleveland International Film Festival**. *"A modest,...
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Entertainment One
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Widescreen version.
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English
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Ten-year-old Abigail has written to the North Pole and asked for something very special this year--something she's kept secret from her mother. However, when Abigail discovers that Santa hasn't brought her special "gift," she activates her back-up plan and captures jolly St. Nick.
7) The boss
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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English
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Michelle Darnell, a titan of industry, is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
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Warner Home Video
Edition
Full screen version
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English
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Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again.
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Music Box Films
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Deutsch
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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...
10) Acorralada
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Venevision International
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Español
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After leaving jail Fedora finds her daughter, Diana, and they become friends. Diana, thinking that she and her sister are orphans, does not realize Fedora is her mother. Fedora plans her revenge on the women that snatched her daughter.
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
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Widescreen Edition
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English
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The story of Laura, a working mother who just wants to spend more time with her daughter Kelsey. Unfortunately, her demanding boss Paul has other ideas. When Kelsey's father Dylan files for joint custody, Laura is forced to take Kelsey to Texas, where she confronts the lifestyle, church, and father that she left behind. With the help of the local church minister, Pastor Frank, Laura and Dylan will find their way back to the commitment they made to...
12) Snatched
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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English
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When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results.
13) Olvidarte jamás
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Venevision International
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Español
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Deseo y odio definen una intensa y apasionante historia de amor jamás vista. Victoria, una mujer hermosa y exitosa regresa acompañada de su hija, Carolina, luego de 20 años buscando vengar todo el daño que la familia Montero le causó. Sin embargo el destino se interpone en sus planes cuando Victoria se enamora perdidamente de Diego, el vecino de los Montero, y Carolina encuentra el verdadero amor en Alejandro, parte de la familia que Victoria...
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New Line Home Entertainment
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Widescreen version.
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Español
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When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself.
16) 52 Tuesdays
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
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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.
17) Rosenstrasse
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
Deutsch
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After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. Traveling to Berlin to interview a woman who knew her mother as a child, Hannah hears the story of a week in 1943 when the Aryan wives of Jewish men held captive in a building on Rosenstrasse protested in the name of love, and realizes how little she knew of her mother's troubled childhood.
18) Sherrybaby
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Language
English
Description
A young woman with a history of drug abuse returns home after a 3-year prison sentence, to reconnect with her 5-year-old daughter while trying to adjust to the outside world once again.
19) Steel Magnolias
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English
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"Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility...
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