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At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
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2023.
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and...
6) Transylvania
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
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Zingarina (Asia Argento) arrives in Transylvania to trace her lover, Milan, a musician who impregnated her and left without explanation. When she finds him, he brutally rejects her and makes her distraught and heartbroken. She survives by following a wandering little girl, and her destiny changes then she meets Tchangalo, a traveling trader.
8) Cenizas
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2023.
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Caridad hasn’t spoken to her father in years—not since he left the family under a cloud of suspicion and accusations. But that changes when a long dormant volcano starts spewing ash and Caridad finds herself isolated and trapped within the blast zone. Out of options, she reaches out to her father and confronts the emotions she repressed for so many years.
9) Mary White
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
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The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at age 16, and the powerful effect the tragedy had on the life of her father.
10) Borrufa
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Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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Shot on 16mm film in long, thoughtful takes, Roland Dahwen’s debut feature tells the story of an immigrant family in Oregon whose life is disrupted when it’s revealed that the father has a second family. Reeling from this news, his wife Leonora must choose to either leave her husband, her dying mother, and her son, who has a mysterious illness—or to move on, and let her husband take responsibility for the family he’s destroyed. With a pace...
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"Two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power"--
For generations the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements--books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and...
12) Old Cats
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2010.
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Isadora discovers that her mind is quickly fading. At a relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way everything she has. Official Selection of the **Sundance Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"...this exquisite chamber piece by Chilean filmmakers Pedro Peirano and Sebastián Silva hasn’t lost an ounce...
13) All Is Forgiven
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
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Victor adores his wife Annette and their young daughter Pamela, but his self-loathing and drug use take their toll and the family disintegrates. A decade later, Pamela lives in Paris where Victor still resides, and the two reunite.
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
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Paul did everything he could to keep his mind healthy, so his Dementia diagnosis at age 58 was the last thing anyone expected. As his disease progresses, his family comes together to decide what to do. Confusion, commitment, love, and one last fishing trip bring him closer to his wife and children.
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Three women search for joy in #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery’s new novel of hope, heartache, and the power of friendship.
Heather is happy . . . ish. She has a successful business, a cute but contemptuous cat, and best friends Daphne and Tori who know where she’s broken and love her anyway. So why does she feel crushed when her ex gets serious about someone new? No problem, she has a plan. More connections will hold her together...
16) Transamerica
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
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A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
17) It Takes Two
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1995.
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Two identical girls have lived very different lives. The outspoken Amanda has been moving from foster home to foster home, while the quiet refined Alyssa has been raised in a world of privilege and luxury. Amanda faces adoption and the loss of Diana, her loving social worker. Alyssa faces losing her father, Roger, to an opportunistic fiancee. The two girls swap identities in a plan to bring Roger and Diana closer together.
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1988.
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An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this romantic comedy from John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin), Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern). After an abortive attempt at graduate school in New Mexico, the couple settle in suburban Chicago. A few years later, Kristy decides to stop taking her birth-control...
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Will her daughter's secret tear her family apart? When troubled teenager Immy disappears, she leaves her widowed mother Bea completely devastated. Bea pours her love into her six-year-old niece Phoebe, even taking her in when her single father Ewan takes a job abroad. Then Immy returns, in desperate need of her mother's help and love. But Ewan is clear: he will never let Bea see Phoebe again if she welcomes her daughter back. As Bea grapples with...
20) One in a million
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"Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas' most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in--and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy's body in their prize stallion's box stall.Roper's rodeo career was cut short by an injury. Now, he's hungry to compete in reining events, like the...
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