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A mother wonders, will my children love their perfect machines more than they love me, their imperfect mother? A cinematic meditation on technology and parenthood.
2) The others
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A devoutly religious mother of two ailing children has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly arrived family of eccentric servants to be responsible, but chilling...
3) The others
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Grace, a devoutly religious mother, has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast, awaiting her husband's return from the war. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly-arrived family of eccentric servants to...
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Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close collaboration with the British psychiatrist John Bowlby, Ainsworth gave us new understandings of the huge impact very early emotional experiences have on personality development across the life span. The production details the developmental course of attachment behaviors and the different patterns...
5) Breaking in
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English
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Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her children and defeat the villains.
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Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope to survive the deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide.
7) Summer magic
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English
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When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune, they find a wealth of family secrets, young love and charming summer nights in Beulah, Maine.
8) Madŏ: Mother
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Korean
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A mother desperately tries to overturn her son's murder conviction, find the killer who set him up, and have him released from prison.
9) Tully
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English
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When mother Marlo gives birth to her third baby, she wasn't expecting to hire a nanny to help with the newborn. Her brother contracts the services of young Tully as a nanny on Marlo's behalf, however. At first Marlo thinks of having a nanny as an unnecessary indulgence, but as the two women get to know each other better, they begin to form an unexpected bond, although their relationship is not always such smooth sailing.
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Raised at the family bed and breakfast by a single mom, Mia grows up believing her father was lost, M.I.A. in the Gulf War. With her mother's sudden death, Mia has to care for the B&B by herself. A hard-edged businessman from New York arrives at the B&B and Mia suspects he may be her lost father. Bonus features include: a making-of featurette, behind the scenes, and trailers.
11) Room
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English
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After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
"See it you must for the Oscar-caliber Larson and young Tremblay, whose remarkable mother-and-child bond is nothing sort of astonishing to watch."--New York Post.
12) I smile back
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Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the facade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful...
13) Mom
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Hindi
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Devki is a biology teacher in Delhi and her family life is shattered when her daughter, Arya is physically assaulted by Jagan and gang.
14) Flesh and blood
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English
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Helen, Jake and Natalie are thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother announces her love for a new man. Their suspicion of the newcomer triggers events in the siblings' own love lives, which begin to spiral out of control. Can the family pull together, or will old rifts and new conflicts push them apart, even to the point of violence?
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A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's children.
16) Wolf children
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日本語
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Hana was a student before she was a mother. Then she met a man, who turned out to be a wolf, and together they built a family. Hana loved her mate fiercely, but fate took him from her, leaving her alone with two unusual kids she didn't know how to raise. This is a mother's journey. Teach your children to chase their dreams - and smile through the tears as they disappear into the world in search of who they will become. Hana wasn't always a mother,...
17) 3 beauties
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Español
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Perla is a mother with three children, Carolina, Estefania and Salvador. She is obsessed with turning one of her daughters into a beauty queen and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her own childhood dream come true, even if it means affectionately ignoring her only son. Perla's unlimited efforts will soon turn into a nightmare for both of her daughters. Toddlers and Tiaras meets Pedro Almodovar in this crafty Spanish comedy.
18) The magic quilt
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English
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Designed to encourage and teach hearing parents to share the joys of reading with deaf and hard of hearing children.
19) For Sama
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Arabic
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The Frontline film is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
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The battle for the student body begins as Tara and her alters return to college. Her alternate personalities further complicate her life as they turn the school upside down and send her family into a ridiculous tailspin. Will Tara and her alters push through their boundaries in pursuit of academia? Join Tara and the Gregson family as they dramatically navigate the halls of higher education. Contains all twelve chaos and comedy-filled episodes.