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21) The tree
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A mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg)—along with her four young children—struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then...
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Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, César Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
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When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...
24) Jack Frost
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On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be, Jack embarks on a quest to show Charlie that when it...
25) People like us
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While settling his recently deceased father's estate and reconnecting with his estranged family, a twenty-something salesman discovers he has a half sister.
26) Proof
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Catherine has devoted years to caring for her brilliant but mentally unstable father, Robert, a mathematical genius. But when his genius slips away, he leaves behind a mystery that affects her life ... and her own sanity.
27) Party with me
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After the sudden death of her distant father, a young woman copes by distracting herself with alcohol, drugs, and the antics of her misguided friends.
30) Cat Ballou
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When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
31) The Sonata
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A young violinist unravels her long lost father's past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.
32) Freelancers
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The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss wants to see if he has what it takes to be rogue. When the truth about his father's death is revealed, he won't stop until justice has been served.
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"Finally exonerated after fifteen years in prison, Kinsley Garrison's determined to find her father's true killer - even if it makes her a target. Staying alive means relying on police chief Marcus Bayne's protection, but she won't trust him ... or anyone. Not after the way everyone turned on her following her arrest. But as Marcus risks everything to shield her, can Kinsley keep him from burrowing into her heart?"--Back cover.
34) Proof: a play
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It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's father who hopes to find some hint of Robert's genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels...
36) Tiger eyes
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Davey is a 17 year-old girl abruptly relocated by her grieving mother to the strange 'atom bomb' town of Los Alamos, New Mexico. With the sudden and violent death of her father, the displaced Davey no longer knows who to be or how to fit in. Everything that once mattered suddenly seems insignificant. But when she meets Wolf, a mysterious young Native-American, while exploring the surrounding canyons, she feels he is able to see past her pain and into...
38) Tommy
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"This classic rock opera [is] the story of Tommy, who, when just a boy of six, witnessed the murder the murder of his father by his mother and her lover. They command him, 'You didn't hear it, you didn't see it, and you won't say anything to anyone'... As a result, the traumatized boy retreats into the shadows of his mind and becomes deaf, dumb and blind. Growing into manhood, Tommy is subjected to several bizarre cure attempts by the Acid Queen,...
40) Shotgun stories
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This film tracks a blood feud between two sets of half brothers in the cotton-fielded back roads of Southeast Arkansas. The first set of Hayes boys were deserted by a violent, alcoholic father who never gave them proper names. The second Hayes family knew a different, sober man who led a comfortable middle-class life. When those first sons crash his funeral, the anger that had rested in the background of their lives threatens to rise up and overtake...