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1) Forced to be family: a guide for living with sinister sisters, drama mamas, and infuriating in-laws
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
3) Little women
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
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.
4) Sisters
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Theatrical and unrated versions.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Extended edition.
Language
English
Formats
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.
9) Sparkle
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1960s, Sparkle and her two sisters form a singing group and dream of becoming stars beyond the affluent Detroit suburb where they come from, and where they are already well-known. But as the sisters become more famous, the close-knit nature of their family begins to fall apart. Features the late Whitney Houston's final screen performance.
10) A stolen life
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Davis plays identical twins -- one good, one evil -- who are both in love with the same man.
11) Devotion
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sisters Emily and Charlotte Bronte lived to write, weaving tales rich with characters, incident and passion from the poor Yorkshire vicarage they called home. Devotion tells the story -- with more than a dash of literary license -- of these daring women who created Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
12) Little Woods
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ollie is barely getting by, an economically depressed fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is reunited with her estranged sister Deb, who faces a mounting crisis: the combined effect of an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex.
14) Bleeding heart
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Reserved yoga instructor May lives a peaceful, clean-living life with her boyfriend. Her carefully maintained equilibrium is thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost sister Shiva; a street-smart yet naive young woman caught working the streets and in an abusive relationship. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva but as she takes steps to pull Shiva back from the edge she finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world...
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.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Libba Phillips is the responsible sister with good grades and perfect boyfriends. Her younger sister Ashley is the opposite. When Ashley disappears, Libba and her mother pour all of their efforts into finding her. As years go by, Libba refuses to give up hope. Frustrated by the lack of resources available to locate missing adults, she creates an organization called 'Outpost for Hope.' After five years of searching, Libba finds Ashley and once again...
18) Mistress America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
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 Brooke's alluringly mad schemes.
19) 47 meters down
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.
20) Tiny furniture
Series
Criterion collection volume 597
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate named Aura returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
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