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Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1760 France, Marianne arrives at an isolated seaside estate to secretly paint the wedding portrait of H��lo��se, a young woman who has recently left the convent and is about to enter a chattel marriage.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the squad room, the cops on the Manchester murder investigation unit call Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis, "Boss." At home, the kids call her mum. In both places, she manages to keep everyone in line, but only just barely. Janine is a chief detective and a single mom who is trying to balance the demands of both her career and her family.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Middle-aged and divorced, Kyra Johnson lives with and takes care of her elderly mother, but when her mother dies leaving her with no financial support, Kyra finds herself taking chances that have devastating consequences.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When a distinguished philosophy professor turns 50, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of her life. But the deeper she digs the more her life seems to unravel, until she realizes that her search for truth is a personal odyssey of self-examination, discovery and acceptance.
5) Home fires
Series
Home fires volume Season 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Series
Home fires volume Season 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
At the center of the action is top-ranking detective Janine Lewis, a single mother passionately committed to both her children and her work. She struggles to balance the demands of a high-powered, sometimes dangerous job with raising her children.
9) Amy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The incredible story of six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse - in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film shines a light on our culture and the world we live in today.
10) The holiday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. They both come upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives....
11) Trucker
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A female trucker finds herself having to take care of her estranged eleven-year-old son when his father is diagnosed with cancer.
12) Greta
Author
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young woman strikes up a friendship with a solitary French piano teacher but soon notices that her new friend's behavior grows increasingly disturbing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 587
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
The death of her husband and child causes a woman to retreat from the world until her husband's secret past is revealed; when a man's young wife leaves him, his life falls apart and the only thing that saves him is plotting revenge; a beautiful young woman meets an unusual stranger, which leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Follows a woman entering her thirties as she vacillates between her artistic passions and career, the question of motherhood, and the relationships with two men.
18) Girl most likely
Author
Publisher
Widescreen
Pub. Date
Widescreen
Language
English
Description
After both her career and relationship fail, a New York playwright moves home to New Jersey to live with her eccentric mother and younger brother.
19) It's complicated
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A happily divorced woman with a new romance heating up has an affair with her married ex-husband.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.
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