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1) Forced to be family: a guide for living with sinister sisters, drama mamas, and infuriating in-laws
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy, first presented circa 1613. John Webster's great Jacobean drama focuses on a secret marriage that strikes the disastrous spark to an inferno of violence. When the Duchess of Malfi marries Antonio, a household steward, her two fiendishly jealous brothers -- hoping to inherit her title and estates -- plant a household spy whose treachery leads...
Language
Deutsch
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Description
In this sweeping yet intimate romantic drama, which is also Germany's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, acclaimed director Dominik Graf illuminates the lives of two bold young women and one of classical literature's most celebrated figures with charm and contemporary energy. BELOVED SISTERS depicts the unconventional romance between two aristocratic sisters and a rebellious poet who took the European literary...
5) Little women
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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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.
6) Brace up
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Anna Kohler, Beatrice Roth, Ron Vawter, and Willem Dafoe.
Language
English
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Description
Trying to get back on her feet, wild child Tanya looks to her buttoned-up, by the book sister Danica to help her get back on track. As these polar opposites collide, with hilarious and sometimes disastrous results, Tanya discovers that Danica's picture-perfect life, including her mysterious boyfriend, may not be what it seems.
8) 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.
9) The forest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
A woman goes into Japan's suicide forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Extended edition.
Language
English
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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.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte face a bleak future, with their father half-blind, and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.
12) Landline
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
Description
When sisters Dana and Ali suspect their father is having an affair, cracks in their family faȧde begin to surface. The two sisters bond as they discover the reality of love while trying to uncover the truth about their father without their mother knowing.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera. The film centres on a dysfunctional and codependent family who are struggling to maintain the family business, a small community theatre in New York City.
14) Breaking surface
Language
Swedish
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Description
A few days after Christmas, half-sisters Ida and Tuva set out on a winter dive in a remote part of the Norwegian coastline. Towards the end of the dive, a rockslide traps Tuva under water. As Ida surfaces to call for help, she discovers that the rockslide has struck above water as well, burying their equipment, phones and car keys-they are completely cut off from any chance of outside rescue. As the frantic race for survival unfolds, Ida is put to...
16) The vault
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. The heist begins smoothly, but mayhem ensues when the defiant bank manager sends them to a basement-level vault, home to something truly evil.
17) Little women
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version].
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's novel. The story details to the passage from childhood to womanhood of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy who are all sisters. Despite hard times, they cling to optimism. As they mature they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.
18) 47 meters down
Language
English
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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.
19) Into the forest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After a worldwide power outage, two sisters must work together in order to survive in their increasingly treacherous new world while fighting intruders, disease, loneliness, and starvation.
20) The big sleep
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
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