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Stella Dallas, a pretty working-class girl, decides she wants more out of life than drudgery and work. She sets her sights on marry rich and she manages it. But she soon finds that marrying a rich man and keeping him are not the same things. Coarse and vulgar by upper class standards, she is unable to bridge the cultural divide that separates them. When Stella and her husband inevitably divorce, she shifts her ambitions to her daughter. But can she...
4) Umma
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Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her alienated mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the dread of turning into her own mother.
12) 52 Tuesdays
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16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week (only on Tuesdays) these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.
13) Nothing special
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The film features a Golden Globe winning actor in her last starring role, making it an exciting and original film. The film shows an in-depth exploration of a mother-daughter relationship living in the shadow of the Hollywood sign.
14) More than enough
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When a bullied young woman with an unstable mother reaches a breaking point, she finds a refuge in a wealthy bachelor who encourages her to believe in herself.
15) The bad seed
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A mother makes the tortuous discovery that her cherubic eight year old daughter harbors an innate desire to kill and remembers the horrors of her own forgotten childhood. As Christine fits the puzzle pieces together, tension and menace build into a taunt cocoon of overpowering dread. And, unlike the earlier movie, this production includes the original ending, a chilling denouement considered too shocking for '50s audiences.
16) Eyewitness
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A mother and daughter set out on a weekend river rafting retreat, only to encounter three escaped convicts along the way.
17) Reunion
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A pregnant woman returns to her recently deceased grandparents' old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying. A psychological thriller that preys upon perception.
18) El planeta
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Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, a mother and daughter bluff and grift to fund their extravagant daily life, with impending eviction never too far from sight.
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