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Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a lie that grows into the biggest news and political story...
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big Bad Mama: Sexy, Depression-era Mama (Angie Dickinson) and her daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Big Bad Mama II: Mama and her daughters return for a crime spree through the South as they seek to avenge the death of her husband.
3) Tumbleweeds
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her latest failed relationship, free-spirited, four-times married Mary Jo Walker hits the road and heads West with her 12-year old daughter Ava in search of greener pastures.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An inside look at the lives of eight people living in a remote and icy Scottish village. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and a daughter, played by real-life mother and daughter Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Standard and widescreen editions.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adele is a flashy, flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet, no-nonsense realist. On the surface, they're like oil and water, but deep down, they are two of a kind.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
A remarkable portrait of a family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman. Earthy, sexy, romantic, filled with laughter and warmth, it's a joyous celebration of simple pleasures and enduring passions.
9) Pin cushion
Publisher
Cleopatra
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren't going great for either of them. Iona struggles with her new friends, who act more like frenemies than friends, and a neighbor won't give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
11) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each...
13) Aberdeen
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kaisa, a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together ... at least until her mother asks an enormous favor of her: to bring back her estranged, larger-than-life father. The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild and brutally funny, yet heartbreaking journey which takes them through their emotional past before reaching their ultimate destination.
14) Mildred Pierce
Series
Criterion collection volume 860
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mildred is a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitute of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (176 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Homicidal (87 min., b&w): A girl returns to her childhood home, only to become involved in mystery and murder.
Strait-jacket (89 min., b&w): A mother returns to her daughter after a 20-year asylum stay on a double murder charge. Contains special features.
16) Stella
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tough and fiercely independent, Stella discovers that she is pregnant after a brief relationship with a doctor, but is too proud to accept a marriage of convenience from him or her well-meaning best friend. Ready to face life without regrets, Stella single-handedly raises her daughter Jenny. Through the years, the two share a very special relationship, until Stella faces the truth, that she cannot provide her daughter with a life of advantages that...
17) Applause
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When talking pictures were first coming to the screen, theater director Rouben Mamoulain shatters the oppressive technical limitations and transforms a backstage melodrama into a stunning cinematic masterpiece. Tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps.
18) Tiny furniture
Series
Criterion collection volume 597
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Aura is a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
19) Secret ceremony
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An aging prostitute befriends a young woman that reminds her of her long-dead daughter. The young woman in turn sees an extraordinary resemblance between her dead mother and the prostitute.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Fausta suffers from 'The Milk of Sorrow, ' an illness transmitted through mother's milk by women who've been raped during Peru's civil wars. Stricken with the fear that she's contracted the illness from her mother's breast milk, Fausta goes to extreme lengths to protect her own sexuality and safety. After her mother's sudden death, she finds herself compelled to embark on a frightening journey for re-awakening, freedom, and wholeness.
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