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"The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down -- and protect -- before others can get their hands on it. Just days after mathematician and family patriarch Isaac Severy dies of an apparent suicide, his adopted granddaughter Hazel, owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives...
142) Sea wife
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids -- Sybil, age seven, and George, age two -- Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression,...
Pub. Date
2022.
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Italian neorealism meets the coal-mining country of southeast Ohio in this little-seen wonder of 1960s, American independent cinema. Director J.L. Anderson, a film professor at the University of Ohio, utilized non-professional actors, on-location photography, a shoestring budget, and a passionate knowledge of international film to create what Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a “tense, myth-drenched drama of liberation and retribution.”...
144) Birthmarked
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In 1977, two respected scientists quit their jobs to conduct an experiment about human identity. They aim to raise three children contrarily to their genetic predispositions to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
145) The Secrets We Keep
Pub. Date
2020.
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In a small U.S. town, far from the horrors of the Nazi labor camp where Maja (Noomi Rapace) was held with other Romani prisoners, she and her American husband Lewis (Chris Messina) have built a cozy life. But as she runs errands along the main street of her small town, Maja glimpses a stranger (Joel Kinnaman) whistling a nightmarishly familiar tune. Spiraling back to a night she has tried to forget, she fears he is the German soldier named Karl who...
146) Diane
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Mary Kay Place is extraordinary as a woman coming to terms with her troubled past in this beautiful story of redemption.
147) Albatross
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A brilliant, free-spirited teen disrupts a quietly dysfunctional family, when she becomes entangled in an affair with her new best friend's father.
148) King Charles III
Pub. Date
2021.
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Adapted from the Tony-nominated stage play, this is an examination of contemporary Britain—part political thriller, part family drama. After the Queen’s death, Prince Charles finds himself wrestling his conscience over a bill to sign into law, resulting in a constitutional and political crisis.
149) I Wish
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Koichi's wish is for his family to be reunited. He learns a new train line will open and starts to believe that a miracle will take place with the trains. Koichi sets out on a journey with a group of friends, each hoping to witness a miracle.
150) First Love
Pub. Date
2022.
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Set amidst a national economic downturn, a family struggles with a father’s long-term unemployment and their son falls in love.
151) June Again
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
During a fleeting bout of lucidity from her dementia, June Wilton has precious little time to bring together her estranged children, save the family business, and rekindle an old flame.
152) End of Sentence
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to honor his wife's last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son, Sean, along for the trip.
153) Everyday
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An emotionally powerful tale about a father's 5-year prison sentence and how his family overcomes it.
155) Gideon's Daughter
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Stephen Poliakoff-penned drama which follows Gideon, a leading PR consultant, over a few months in 1997 as he is courted by the government to manage the millennium festivities. However, he finds that the hollowness of the high-profile public life is exposed by his relationships with his daughter, who is on the brink of leaving home for university, and Stella, a woman grieving the loss of her young son in a cycling accident.
156) A Song for Jenny
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
One-off drama which tells the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny's death in the 7 July bombing at Edgware Road tube station. A moving film that explores the impact of violence on one woman and her family.
157) The Laureate
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A married couple on the brink of disillusion allows a stranger to live with them in their idyllic cottage. Will this stranger push their fragile state over the edge?
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A widowed and out of work father reluctantly sends his daughter to stay with her aunt in a town that has outlawed dogs. On her way to school one day she finds a puppy and decides to keep it, despite the dog catcher close on her tail. She now must get to the bottom of what is happening to all the dogs and charm the mayor with the most memorable Christmas pageant the town has ever seen.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
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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