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42) Bang: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Loner Sam and his ambitious sister, Gina, live in a decaying steel town in South Wales. Since the death of their father twelve years earlier, the two have taken divergent paths. Gina has a promising career in the police force, but Sam's life is going nowhere, until one day he gets his hands on a gun. Emboldened by newfound confidence, he begins to commit increasingly daring crimes.
43) Match point
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly cozy lifestyle, Chris begins to consider a drastic solution....
44) Cordelia
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, a young woman living in London, meets her mysterious and alluring neighbor Frank for the first time but quickly becomes suspicious of his motives. With her twin sister away for the weekend, Cordelia is left alone and overcome with paranoia. She begins to unravel and sink back into past traumas the more that Frank tries to charm his way into her life, becoming a danger to herself and others.
45) All good things
Publisher
4Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Two city teens resentfully go to their grandparents' farm for Christmas. Soon, the sisters connect with the horses and fall in love with country life. When foreclosure threatens, the girls use their smarts and tech skills to save the day.
47) Little women
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follow the sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, on their journey from childhood to adulthood. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee, they navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss, and marriage. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, this story is as relevant and engaging today as it was on its original publication in 1868.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Still mourning the loss of her family, Ellie agrees to watch her brother's children when he has to leave town. When a fire is set, Ellie works with a handsome deputy to clear a friends name and learns that if she can trust her faith, this Christmas may bring more miracles than she hoped.
50) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully filmed movie about the end of the world, Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. A planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth and threatening to collide. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as the family deals with their fears.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After being jilted by her fiance, Margaret manages her loneliness by obsessively organizing her already perfect home. But when her older sister, Josephine, and ten-year-old niece, Hannah, arrive unexpectedly for an indefinite visit, Margaret's carefully structured life is thrown into disarray, forcing her to adapt to the duo's free-spirited lifestyle and to confront the years of estrangement. Just as Margaret begins to embrace her new family, she...
53) Little Woods
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ollie is barely getting by in an economically depressed fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is reunited with her estranged sister Deb, who faces a mounting crisis: the combined effect of an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex.
54) Into the forest
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After a worldwide power outage, two sisters must work together in order to survive in their increasingly treacherous new world while fighting intruders, disease, loneliness, and starvation.
55) Ender's game
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Barbie and her sisters, Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea, and their adorable new puppy friends find unexpected mystery and adventure when they return to their hometown of Willows. While going through mementos in Grandma's attic, the sisters discover an old map, believed to lead to a long-lost treasure buried somewhere in the town.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004], c1996-c1997
Language
English
Description
Follows the Camden family, with Eric, the minister father, and Annie, the stay-at-home mom, and how they deal with the drama of having seven children. The kids range in age from toddlers to adults with families of their own. The friends, neighbors, and love interests of the various members of the family are heavy issues and are addressed in a real-life matter.
Publisher
ADV Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
日本語
Description
The Countess' mutants begin to question her motives and their own. To quell their curiousity, the Countess invites them to a public ceremony for the dying leader of Mitleid, where they meet an aging monster, his henchman and his creepy daughter. Then, the Gilgamesh assassins show up to give the funeral a true purpose.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With her father in jail and her mother absent, Alison Miller is the matriarch of the family watching over her only sibling Brandon. On the anniversary of their father's crimes, their family is pushed to the limits: a dead man has been found in a trailer park and Brandon is missing from the scene of the crime. Alison must find Brandon and unearth the truth before he ends up behind bars or inside a casket.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When cocky naval yard worker Chesty O'Connor battles Chief Petty Officer Biff Martin over a dame, he not only loses the fight but the gal and his job as well. Joining the Navy to get even with Biff, Chesty's warned he'll get thrown in the brig if he clobbers a superior officer. Deciding to steal his girlfriend instead, Chesty learns she's actually Biff's sister Dorothy, a discovery that soon leads to war when her brother declares her off-limits.
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