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Series
Language
English
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"Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski." "A study of sexual frustration, violence, and aberration, set in New Orleans, in which Blanche Dubois' fantasies of refinement and grandeur are brutally destroyed by her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, whose animal nature fascinates and repels her." Oxford Companion to English...
2) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
3) Sisters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite in 'Sisters', the story of two disconnected sisters summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party for their classmates, which turns into the cathartic rager that a bunch of ground-down adults really need."--
4) Little women
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's novel. The story details to the passage from childhood to womanhood of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy who are all sisters. Despite hard times, they cling to optimism. As they mature they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters." --
5) Lake effects
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sara and Lily are two sisters from a small lakeside town who lead different lives. Sara is a successful attorney and Lily is an art teacher who never left home. When their father unexpectedly dies, Sara returns to Virginia to help settle his estate. Through the guidance of their father's spirit, the women finally discover what being a family truly means.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"As a war between rival queen sisters Ravenna and Freya escalates, Eric and fellow warrior Sara, members of the Huntsmen army raised to protect Freya, try to conceal their forbidden love as they combat Ravenna's wicked intentions." --
8) Top girls
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her co-workers, clients, and relatives. Marlene, like her famous guests, has had to pay a price to ascend from proletarian roots to the executive suite: she has become, figuratively speaking, a male oppressor...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tracy is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon to be stepsister, Brooke, a proud resident of Times Square and adventurous gal about town, she is rescued from her disappointment and seduced by Brooke₂s alluringly mad schemes.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
12) Gone
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jill Parrish comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, who had escaped from a kidnapper a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has taken her sister.
13) The parent trap
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
14) The Color purple
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. There are a few people who have been half-century friends or acquaintances on the island, including Tisha Doughty and Joshua Brackett." --
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Persian
Description
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Hip Hop Harry a lovable, huggable rapping teddy bear. Hip Hop Harry uses music, dance, and rhyme to help teach youngsters about language, social skills, and problem-solving. Sisters Savannah and Sophina learn the importance of positive competition when they find themselves on opposite teams. It's Fitness Fun Day at Hip Hop Central and Hip Hop Harry has invited a fitness expert to teach the kids some fun new ways to exercise. Katie knows how to do...
19) Nobody's fool
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Trying to get back on her feet, wild child Tanya looks to her buttoned-up, by-the-book sister Danica to help her get on track. As these polar opposites collide, with hilarious and sometimes disastrous results, Tanya discovers that Danica's picture-perfect life, including her mysterious boyfriend, may not be what it seems." --
20) Hanging up
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Three sisters struggle to deal with each other and their aging father.
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