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Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An inside look at the lives of eight people living in a remote and icy Scottish village. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and a daughter, played by real-life mother and daughter Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
3) Philomena
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1952, a young Philomena was sent the convent of Roscrea in Ireland, after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adele is a flashy, flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet, no-nonsense realist. On the surface, they're like oil and water, but deep down, they are two of a kind.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the story of a young girl torn between two mothers, a story of imperfect motherhood and inextricable bonds, struggling with overwhelming feelings and dealing with wounds. She, ten-year-old Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving mother, Tina, but their life is upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become...
8) Tully
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
"Captures the complete exhaustion of parenthood in funny and profound fashion."--USA Today
"...the best work Cody has done in the conventional feature format since Juno."--Chicago Tribune
"Theron...
10) Parallel mothers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
The lives of two single women become intertwined when they share a hospital room giving birth to their daughters on the same day.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. But when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. They have two teen-aged children, Joni, who is Nic's biological child, and Laser, who is Jules' biological child. A big-hearted, sexy and uproariously funny movie that combines comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1012
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grief-stricken Manuela returns to Barcelona after the death of her son to search for the boy's father, and in the process becomes caregiver to an extended family of colorful characters.
15) Antonia's line
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A remarkable portrait of a family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman. Earthy, sexy, romantic, filled with laughter and warmth, it's a joyous celebration of simple pleasures and enduring passions.
16) My Zoe
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A divorced woman who is trying to rebuild her life while she's involved in a custody battle for her daughter decides to take her daughter's fate into her own hands following an unexpected tragedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1012
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Oscar-winning melodrama provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she sets out to search for the boy's long-lost father in Barcelona, where she reawakens into a new maternal role, at the head of a surrogate family that includes a pregnant, HIV-positive nun; an illustrious star of the stage; and a transgender sex worker.
18) Steel magnolias
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
19) I am yours
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Single mom, Mina, a Pakistani ex-pat in Norway, is determined to be an actress, although she routinely fails auditions and the rest of her life is crumbling. When she meets a dashing director who may change her life, it is overshadowed by her mother, who disapproves of Mina's every move.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story as well as a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The hopes and aspirations for her sons is movingly communicated from beginning to conclusion.
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