Fionnula Flanagan
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
2) The others
Series
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Mark is a desperate unemployed writer who lives in a world where everyone unfailingly tells the truth. People don't even know what fiction is. Every thought, no matter how humiliating or harsh, tumbles out unvarnished. Then one day, Mark becomes so desperate he concocts a lie. In a world where everyone is unfailingly honest, a lie is believed with total and absolute gullibility. Mark can get anything he wants. The one thing he truly wants is the love...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Playwright Siddalee Walker is on the verge of opening a new play. She gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy childhood. Her mother is furious and cuts her off. Her mother's friends, who as children formed a secret society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, kidnap Siddalee from her New York apartment and take her home to Louisiana. The Sisterhood hopes to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Surrounded by the conflict in Northern Ireland, Kathleen Quigley has managed to stay clear of it, devoting herself to her three children. Yet in a single moment, the war claims her as one of its living victims. Kathleen is caught in an inescapable political crossfire when her son, actively involved with the IRA, is jailed by the British"--Container.
8) Sight
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Sight, starring Greg Kinnear and Terry Chen, follows the inspiring true story of Ming Wang, an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeonn in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan who was blinded by her step mother, he must confront the trauma of living through a violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution."--Container.