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3) Gloria
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
A story about a middle aged woman who gets caught up in a passionate whirlwind romance with a retired naval officer, whom she meets at a dance club for singles. But when she discovers the truth of their relationship, she takes matters into her own hands and sets forth to change her life.
4) Side effects
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Kyra Johnson, a middle-aged divorcee, moves into her elderly mother's Brooklyn apartment while she looks for work and tries to get back on her feet. When her mother dies suddenly, Kyra is left without any support, both emotional and financial, and finds herself with very few options. Kyra can't accept that her once-tidy life has completely fallen apart. This leads her on a risky path of self-destruction that has devastating consequences.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.
11) Practical magic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The wry, comic romantic tale follows the Owens sisters as they struggle to use their hereditary gift for practical magic to overcome the obstacles in discovering true love.
12) Man up
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong?
13) Dead gorgeous
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in the tradition of Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train. Two very different women, one shy, one flamboyant, meet and discover a common bond, they are unhappily married. A plot is devised to eliminate the unwanted husbands.
15) Land girls
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Helen McCarter would seem to have it all. She's married to Charles who is one of Atlanta's most successful attorneys. But despite having wealth and prestige, things are not as they seem in the McCarter home. On the evening of their anniversary, Charles drops a bombshell on Helen - he's divorcing her for another woman. Thrown out of the house with nowhere to go, Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, a sassy woman with no shortage of opinions and...
17) Alice
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After meeting the mysterious Jack Chase and being given a ring, Alice finds herself entering Wonderland and discovers that the ring is the key to the power of the Queen of Hearts.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
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