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Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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...
2) Lovesong
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy's wedding.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Almost 30-year-old Anna lives secluded in her mum's shed making videos using her thumbs as actors. A week before her birthday her mom tells her that she has to cut her hair, stop dressing like a homeless person, and move out of the shed. At first, Anna is upset, but after a friend from school visits, her isolation can't be continued. Quickly she gets entangled with the local real estate agent and an eight-year-old boy who is obsessed with Westerns....
6) Viktoria
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Follows three generations of women in the final years of the People's Republic of Bulgaria and the early years of the new governement. Dreaming of the west, Boryana, determined not to have a child in a communist Bulgaria is blessed with a child. The child, Viktoria, is missing a belly button and declared the country's Baby of the Decade. Boryana takes care of Viktoria until she's 9, and then they push away from each other. Can they be brought together...
8) Malamor
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Language
Español
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lisa, once a teenager with normal interests, now a troubled girl in love with her mother's heroin-addict lover, searches desperately and violently for understanding and for vibrant color in a world too bland for her.
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Nona, a consummate 70-year-old Parisienne, a feminist, and a strong and committed single mother of 40-year-old triplets. She is confronted with the surprise of a lifetime she is pregnant! Despite her secret love affair with Andr,̌ a mature university professor, he is not the father. But who is, then? Nona's daughters decide to move back into the family apartment to support their mother and unravel this mystery, all while trying to navigate their...
10) Ayar
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
AYAR, a 1st generation American Latina, returns home to reunite with her daughter. But when her mother refuses to let her see her due to Covid, Ayar is confronted by the many roles she‚ has been forced to play, including the role in this film.
11) Proxima
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college, landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna, now Dee Rock, embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.
13) Freaky Friday
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A conservative, refined mother magically changes place with her thirteen-year old daughter for one day.
14) My Zoe
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
17) Freaky Friday
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A psychiatrist mother and her rock guitar playing teenage daughter switch bodies and have to fake their way through each other's lives while learning to appreciate each other along the way.
18) The prophet
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in a Mediterranean sea-side village, Kamila cleans house for exiled artist and poet Mustafa, but the more difficult job is keeping her free-spirited young daughter, Almitra, out of trouble. The three embark on a journey meant to end with Mustafa's return home, but first they must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in his words will incite rebellion.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
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