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Series
Language
English
Description
A mother and her daughter are always fighting and screaming at each other. Each thinks that the other has it so easy. Then, thanks to a magical fortune cookie, they switch personalities and bodies and discover each other's problems and complications. And they end up gaining a little respect for each other's point of view. But they need to be changed back by Saturday, because the mother is getting married!
4) MirrorMask
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
On the night before her mother is to have surgery, Helena has a dream that she is in a fantasy world. Once the White Queen becomes sick, only the MirrorMask can save her, and Helena must find it. Soon she wonders if it is really all a dream.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate named Aura 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.
6) Malamor
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
"Con la Sierra Nevada como encenario, Lisa (Cristina Umaña), quien es una adolescente, se encuentra ahora en el dilema de estar enamorada del novio de su madre, quien es adicto a la heroína."--Container.
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.
10) Demonic
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young woman unleashes frightening demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old falling out between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
13) Angel of mine
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
14) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Season two of the multi-generational family drama follows Abby O'Brien, a high-powered career woman, divorcee and mother to twin daughters, as she adjusts to life back in her hometown of Chesapeake Shores. Abby now balances a budding relationship with her former high school sweetheart. Trace, working for a firm that does business with her uncompromising father Mick and raising two young daughters.
16) Darrow & Darrow
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Claire Darrow, a lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Naomi, Claire's estranged mother and a lawyer as well, would rather make a profit. They clash on nearly everything, even on the best way to raise Claire's daughter. When a close friend is convicted of stealing from an expensive jewelry store, it's up to Claire to bring justice.
Publisher
AMC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble.
19) The meddler
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a new iPhone, and apartment near the grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori and smother her with motherly love. When the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and...
20) Sherrybaby
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
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.
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