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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Faith attempts to navigate the disillusion of her marriage, while taking on an emotionally wrenching legal medical case involving a gravely ill young boy. Into this mix, Faith is confronted by a terrible and long buried figure from her past: her mother.
82) Stella Dallas
Publisher
[Warner Home Video]
Pub. Date
℗1937
Language
English
Description
Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. When it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is the epitome of bravery.
83) Mildred Pierce
Series
Criterion collection volume 860
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced, Mildred sacrifices her life for her greedy daughter while building a career as a restaurant owner.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Steel Magnolias (1989 ; color ; 119 min.): A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
Sleepless in Seattle (1993 ; color ; 105 min.): After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As Alicia struggles to get her career back on track, she stumbles on a case that puts her up against Diane Lockhart and David Lee. Peter fires Eli Gold, who vows revenge. Cary discovers that his firm is getting out of touch. Peter has little time left to make a plea deal before the jury comes back with a verdict. Meanwhile, Alicia must decide whether her future is with Peter or with Jason, and she channels the ghost of Will Gardner to help make a...
87) Julieta
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia's father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy discovers her ten-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter's healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.
"The sweet sincerity...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Season two of this best-loved comedy series there are plenty of high jinks underfoot in split-level suburbia. Greg? He's got a far-out bachelor pad to impress all the chicks. Marcia? She's embracing Women's Lib. Peter? He's headed for the doghouse after breaking Carol's favorite vase. Jan? She's gone from hair of gold to hair of black; via a brand-new wig. Bobby's pet parakeet may help him overcome his fear of heights, and Cindy's plagued by a schoolyard...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1933 best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst. Bea and Delilah are two women, each with young daughters who build a life and a fortune together selling Delilah's pancake recipe. Unfortunately, success does not save them from sorrow with the passing years. Delilah's light-skinned teenager rejects her mother and her race while Bea must choose between the man she loves and the daughter who loves him too.
Bea, an entrepreneurial single mother,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 746
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
92) Wild at heart
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lula knows she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend, Sailor, no matter how many times her mama tried to kill him. But when she and Sailor hit the road to find happiness, their journey plunges them into a disturbing underworld.
When Sailor and Lula realize that Lula's mother has hired men to kill the ex-convict Sailor, they run off together and encounter a variety of dangerous characters.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly's ticket to money and fame.
Gordon meets Florence, sharing an interest in tennis, but Florence has a supremely ambitious mother who intends to push her ahead. Florence's tennis career rapidly advances, thanks to mother's manipulation and a promotion-minded coach.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
96) The boss
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Lorelai and Rory are a mother and daughter who are sharing life's ups and downs in a small town in Connecticut. This heartfelt, humorous drama appeals to young and old alike with its blend of traditional family issues and hip attitude.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment ; Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mildred Pierce: Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
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