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2) Keeping mum
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving every day problems.
3) Smart people
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After an accident, Lawrence, a chilly intellectual professor, goes to the hospital and is afterward deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment in him as a teacher and role model. But, Janet and Lawrence become romantically involved. Meanwhile, Lawrence's adopted brother Chuck and his teenage daughter Vanessa try to come to terms with each other.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Hillard is no ordinary father, so when he learns his ex-wife needs a housekeeper, he applies for the job. With the perfect wig, a little makeup and a dress for all occasions, he becomes Mrs. Doubtfire, a devoted British housekeeper who is hired on the spot. Free to be the "woman" he never knew he could be, the disguised Daniel creates a whole new life with his entire family.
7) Dear Santa
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Shopaholic Crystal's wealthy parents threaten to cut her off. With no job or romantic prospects, what's a party girl to do? Fate intervenes when she finds seven year-old Olivia's letter to Santa asking for a new wife for her widowed dad Derek. Crystal tracks them down and vows to win over father and daughter before the fast-approaching holiday deadline. Only Derek's jealous and calculating girlfriend stands between her and her newfound happiness.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In Jet Li's first ever dramatic role, this is a story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite love that parents have for their children and their unending desire to take care and look after them to their best abilities, no matter the struggle, no matter the effort....
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lane and Clint Winston, twin brothers from a working-class background, pursue professional baseball careers while trying to save their homeless, alcoholic father Charlie. A coming-of-age drama, an account of overcoming enormous odds, and a tale about family and the bonds that matter.
10) Winter's bone
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
11) The proud rebel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ladd is a Southerner on his way north in search of a doctor to cure his boy, who was rendered mute by the shock of seeing his mother killed in the Civil War. Along the way they find a new home on an Illinois farm run single-handed by de Havilland, and learn that violence does not always end after a war is over when she is victimized by a one-armed sheep herder and his two sons.
12) The chaperone
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ray Bradstone has been released from prison after serving seven years for driving the get-away car in an attempted bank heist. Rehabilitated, Ray only wants to win back the respect and love of his fifteen-year-old daughter. His first opportunity comes when he`s asked to be a chaperone on a weekend-long school trip with Sally`s class. However, when characters from Ray`s criminal past show up, Ray will do whatever it takes to fend them off and keep...
13) 17 again
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Mike's glory days are decidedly behind him. His marriage has fallen apart, he's been passed over for a promotion, and his kids think he's a loser. But Mike is given another chance when he is miraculously transformed back to the age of 17 and he's suddenly back at Hayden High Schol where he becomes the star of the basketball team, a total hottie and a classmate to his own teenage kids.
15) Biutiful
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"Es el viaje de Uxbal, un héroe trágico peleando contra la corrupción, tanto en la sociedad como dentro de sí mismo, mientras lucha por encontrar la compasión, el perdón, la redención y la luz en todo lo que lo rodea, al tiempo que se rinde sin límites a su destino a través del inmenso amor por sus hijos. ¿A dónde vamos cuando morimos? Uxbal sólo puede responder que hay un lugar de seguro: la memoria de los otros"--Cover.
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, newspaper columnist George Turner decided to move his family from Sydney to the small New Zealand seaside town of Weld. He wanted his kids, Shay and Arlo, to have a fresh start, but all did not go according to plan. In Season Two George must reunite his family and bring Shay home from her self-appointed exile in Australia. George is also finding out what it means to be a local in the quirky town of Weld.
18) Wish I was here
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Aidan Bloom, a 35-year-old struggling actor, father, and husband, is still trying to find his identity, a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
HUCKLEBERRY FINN: After being kidnapped by his drunken father, Huck heads down the Mississippi with his buddy Jim and have many adventures. THE PROUD REBEL: After John Chandler's son goes mute following a tregedy, John searches for a doctor who can help him. Before he finds one, he and his family must work off a debt using their talented sheepdog, Lance. When a doctor is found, John has no money to pay for help for his son and must decide whether...
20) Tanta agua
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 11
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"Lucía tiene 14 años pero parece un poco menos. Es flaquita y tiene cuerpo de niña. Sus papás están divorciados, ella y su hermano viven con su madre. Alberto, su padre, es quiropráctico. Ve a sus hijos en pocas ocasiones. Alquila una cabaña en las termas, las vacaciones van a ser cortas y el cielo amenaza con lluvia. Cuando llegan el panorama es desalentador. Meterse en las piscinas está prohibido por una tormenta eléctrica. Alberto intenta...
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