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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows how: with a lot of tough love, laughter, and the revelation...
22) Inheritance
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A patriarch of a powerful family suddenly dies, leaving his wife and daughter with a secret inheritance that threatens to destroy their lives. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
25) Lights out
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Rental [edition].
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bloodthirsty supernatural being that lurks in the shadows preys upon her family, a young woman must fight to protect herself, save her younger brother, and uncover a mystery about her family's shadowy past.
26) Bhool bhulaiyaa
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Hindi
Description
Siddharth returns to his hometown with his new wife and insists on staying in the family's royal ancestral mansion where deadly happenings have taken place throughout the generations.
27) Our house
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A woman arrives home one day to find that strangers have moved into her house and her husband has gone missing.
28) Northern borders
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young boy goes to live with his grandparents at their Vermont farm where he uncovers family secrets.
29) The identical
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.
30) Nobody's life
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Emilio seems to have it all - great job, beautiful house, loving wife, and adoring son. Things aren't always what they seem to be. When a sexy young student enters his life, the balance that keeps his secret hidden falls apart.
31) Family squares
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the death of their family matriarch, Grandma Mabel, a family is reunited after years of being divided and soon find family secrets coming to light.
32) The kind words
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
This quirky and wry comedy follows three Jewish Israeli siblings, Dorona and her brothers Netanel and Shai, who, in the wake of their mother's death, learn the man who raised them is not their biological dad. The revelation sends them on a road trip from Israel across France to discover the truth about their birth father. It explores an unraveling family secret and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery that follows.
33) Beautiful wave
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Nicole, a shy New York City high school student still mourning the drowning death of her beloved dad. When Nicole is sent to California to spend the summer with the free-spirited grandmother she barely knows, she'll learn a shocking family secret she yearns to understand. Now on a quest to Baja Mexico, Nicole will discover friendship, romance, the thrill of surfing, and a link to her late father that could change her life forever.
34) Archipelago
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A quietly devastating portrayal of a family in emotional crisis. Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia and his sister Cynthia decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell trip to say goodbye to Edward. Hired cook Rose and painting teacher Christopher, though bought in to help, only serve to bring the family's anxieties into sharper focus. When Edward's...
35) Zombi child
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
36) So B. it: DVD
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Isabel has devoted her life to working with the children in a Calcutta orphanage. Theresa is the multimillionaire leader of a media company who lives with her artist husband and twin boys in New York. When Isabel hears of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially strained orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor, Theresa, in person.
39) Grandma: DVD
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A teenager who unexpectedly becomes pregnant turns to her grandmother for support.
40) The red house
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Edward G. Robinson stars as a rural farmer with dark secrets in his past-- and in the woods behind his house. That is, until a teenage boy from the town is hired to help out on the farm. Warned to never cut through those woods, the boy soon stumbles across the eerie ruins of the red house. A young Julie London also features in this spooky, nerve-rattling cult classic, backed by a chilling, Theremin-enhanced music score.
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