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1) Sisters
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra, and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonized Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatizing events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This quirky release includes all five telefilms in the THE SNOOP SISTERS series, a miniseries that aired during the 1970's on NBC, starring Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as two elderly sisters with an uncanny knack for solving even the most heinous or convoluted mysteries.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
6) Heartland
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lauren, a young Oklahoma artist struggling with a recent death, finds escape in a reckless affair with her brother's girlfriend.
7) Oculus
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seeing is deceiving in this 'deeply terrifying' film that reflects heart-stopping terror as you've never imagined! It's been ten years since the lives of siblings Tim and Kaylie Russell were shattered and Tim was convicted of murdering their parents. Now released from a mental institution, Tim wants to move on, but his sister has other plans. Kaylie blames their childhood nightmare on the Lasser Glass, an antique mirror with a grisly history, which...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sally and Gillian are sisters with a bewitching gift. Unfortunately their gift also comes with a dark family curse: any man who falls in love with them meets a horrible end. When Sally meets the man of her dreams, she has one final chance to lift the curse and set their love lives free. With the help of their aunts the siblings take on the dark side.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Bent Arrow, Texas everything seems to have moved on. Left behind are a precocious ten year old named Cotton and Butch, a gentle soul whose life has taken him on a path of heartache from the rough world of pro football, through heart wrenching loss to a roadside stand where he paints Watercolor Postcards. Butch starts to believe he can find happiness again when a relationship blossoms between Cotton's long-lost sister, Sunny, who returns home, disillusioned,...
10) Bluey: season 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Bluey is a loveable, inexhaustible little six-year-old Blue Heeler dog, who lives with her Mum, Dad and her four year old little sister, Bingo. Like every kid her age, the thing Bluey likes to do best is play games that unfold in unpredictable and hilarious ways, bringing her family and the whole neighborhood into her world of fun"--container.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The parent trap: Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. The parent trap II: Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie and Milo are estranged twins who are reunited after ten years of being apart. Follow their unforgettable journey to reconnect, as they realize that the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Nine-year-old Isabelle is an inspired dancer with a flair for fashion design. She's thrilled to be studying ballet at a prestigious performing arts school, but her classmates are so talented--and she can't help feeling that she's always in the shadow of her 'perfect' older sister, Jade. So when her idol, a famous ballerina, encourages her to audition for a professional ballet, Isabelle isn't sure she can land the role"--Container.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) Happy tears
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle; their father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne refuses to believe that their father's condition is serious. Joe still signs and plays the blues on his prized guitar, and the lively widower even...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aging bachelor in a small New England town, Harry Quincey finds love when a New York fashion designer visits the fabric mill where Harry works. But Harry's long-overdue chance at happiness is thwarted by his neurotic sister Lettie, who uses her physical ailments as a means of controlling her kind-hearted brother. When Harry proves himself serious about leaving the family home, Lettie goes to shocking extremes to keep him under her thumb.
17) The kind words
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This quirky and wry comedy follows three Jewish Israeli siblings, Dorona and her brothers Netanel and Shai, who, in the wake of their mother's death, learn the man who raised them is not their biological dad. The revelation sends them on a road trip from Israel across France to discover the truth about their birth father. It explores an unraveling family secret and the bittersweet journey of self-discovery that follows.
18) Ms. Purple
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poignant drama about sister and brother, Kasie and Carey, who were raised, and are now seemingly stuck in Koreatown. Abandoned by their mother and brought up by their father, the siblings continue to struggle with profound emotional wounds from the difficulty of the parental dynamic.
19) Little Woods
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ollie is barely getting by in 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.
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