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Explore family relationships, tensions and bonds.

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Expecting Mary (2010)

Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film

Mary (Olesya Rulin) is a 16-year-old girl who is 8 months pregnant. She had all the trappings of an upscale life, but ran away from her mother Meg (Cybill Shepherd) and stepfather Phil Cuthbart (Duncan Bravo) who wanted her to get an abortion. It is only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town in a downtrodden trailer park where she learns the real meaning of love, sacrifice, and family.

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The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980)

Baio stars as Buff Saunders, a teen hockey player well-liked and respected among his coaches and teammates. He battles to hide the truth from his elders and peers that, like his father, he is an alcoholic. He struggles to remain clean and sober in order not to lose his position on the team and the respect of his friends.

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Shattered Spirits (1986)

Family Drama

Lyle Mollencamp is an alcoholic. His wife, Joyce, struggles to cover their family's distress. His three children react in different ways: Kenny has become rebellious; Lesley has totally immersed herself in school activities, and 8 year old Brian has been shielded from his father's problems.

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Ice Angel (2000)

Drama, Fantasy, Komödie, Sport, comedy television program

The film tells the story of Matt Clark (Aaron Smolinski), a male hockey player who dies in a game due to an accident caused by the angel Allan, (Brendan Beiser) that caused the hockey player to die when he was trying to get to a choking man. As four days have passed where Matt has been pronounced dead, cremated and buried on national television, Allan is instructed by his boss Peter (Alec Willows) to put Matt in a suitable body. Matt comes back to life as Sara Bryan (Nicholle Tom), a female figure skater who fell into a coma who just passed into Heaven.

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Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)

fantasy film

The 12-year old orphan Kex Bradley stows away in a lifeboat, hoping to see the world, but after being washed overboard he finds himself on Dinotopia. Here, he befriends the beloved young dinosaur "26" . They get in trouble fast as the evil Ogthar is released from his stone prison and recovers the Ruby Sunstone, whose dark power can endanger all of Dinotopia.

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Left Luggage (1998)

Drama, drama film

While escaping Nazis during World War II, a Jewish man buries in the ground two suitcases full of things dear to his heart. The war deprived him of his family and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases. It's an obsessive compulsion.

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Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)

Komödie, children's film

In a frame story, Branch Hawksbill, assistant director of a city zoo, is visited by a father and son who have a bear cub they found during a camping trip. The father tries to convince his son, Tim, that the bear should be donated to the zoo. Tim refuses, equating the zoo to a prison.

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Black Beauty (1946)

adventure film, drama film

The story picks up in 1880s England, when Duchess, the mare of a widower, a country squire, called Wendon is about to foal. He has forbidden his adolescent daughter Anne to watch, but the girl sneaks into the stables and watches anyway. Anne gets the colt on her birthday and because of its color she names it Black Beauty.

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Ice Quake (2010)

Natural Disaster, disaster film

Under the Alaskan permafrost organic materials have been rotting for thousands of years. As it thaws, volatile liquid methane and gases are released causing a succession of destructive earthquakes. A family is on the hunt for a Christmas tree when their dog runs away.

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Stacey (1973)

Action, Crime, exploitation film

The protagonist is Stacey Hanson (Anne Randall), a private eye and race car driver. She is hired by aging heiress Florence Chambers (Marjorie Bennett) to investigate several close members of the Chambers family for potential inclusion in her will. They are Florence's nephew John (Stewart Moss), his wife Tish (Anitra Ford), and Florence's grand-niece Pamela (Cristina Raines).

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Opal Dream (2006)

drama film

thumb|left|230px|Kellyanne (Sapphire Boyce) is led by her brother Ashmol (Christian Byers).The film begins by introducing Kellyanne Williamson, playing with imaginary friends Pobby and Dingan. The family of Rex Williamson—his wife, Anne, daughter Kellyanne and son Ashmol—have moved to Coober Pedy, known as the "opal capital of Australia", because Rex believed he could make a fortune in mining opal. So far he's had little success.

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Keep 'Em Flying (1941)

Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, war film

Jinx Roberts, an arrogant but talented stunt pilot, and his assistants Blackie and Heathcliff, are fired from a carnival air show after a disagreement with the owner. Jinx decides to join the Army Air Corps, and he, Blackie and Heathcliff go to a nightclub to party one last time. Jinx falls for the club's singer, Linda Joyce.

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Dead Souls (2012)

Ghost-Movie, horror film

On his 18th birthday Johnny is surprised to discover that he was adopted, and that he has inherited his birth family's farm in Maine. He decides to accept this inheritance and travels to the farm, where he finds that the house has been abandoned and that a squatter named Emma has been living there. Johnny also learns that his entire birth family was killed in the house and that it contains secrets that put his very life in danger.

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Sand (2000)

Drama, Thriller, drama film

The Briggs family comes together for the first time in over twenty years to attend the funeral and read the will of Marina. It is a very uneasy experience for Tyler, her son. Having been abandoned by his father Gus when he was an infant, Tyler grew up only with his mother Marina and felt no real ties to Gus or his two stepbrothers Barker and Hardy, who were not only alcoholic cocaine addicts but also very ill-mannered and an embarrassment.

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The Crazysitter (1995)

Family Comedy, Komödie

The film follows Edie (Beverly D'Angelo), an alcoholic ex-convict struggling to adjust after being released from her cozy den in jail. Seeking ways to get money fast, she gets hired as a nanny to babysit the Van Arsdale family's unruly children. While watching television one day, Edie comes across a tabloid talk show hosted by Adrian Wexler-Jones (Lisa Kudrow) where the panelists discuss child selling, which gives her the idea to sell the Van Arsdale kids for a quick profit.

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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)

Animation, Komödie, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crossover fiction, detective film

{{expand section}} In the city of London, a crook is stealing jewels around the Scotland Yard, and Red, a beautiful singer, is being framed for this crime. Tom and Jerry, as assistants, must help Sherlock Holmes look for clues and track down the real thief to solve this case.

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