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“Measure for Measure” is one of darkest of Shakespeare's comedies. Written in about 1603 and first performed in 1604, it immediately preceded the composition of the major tragedies “Othello”, “King Lear”, and “Macbeth”.
Duke Vincentino, the ruler of Vienna, fears that under his mild sovereignty, the people may have become lazy and lax. He decides to "go over cover" in the disguise of a monk and appoint his deputy, Angelo, who is a...
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No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great...Description
"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. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
4) Maryland
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Maryland is a story about two sisters, about what binds them together and what has driven them apart. Becca and Rosaline find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary.
5) Sisters
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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...
7) Ballet shoes
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Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
9) The vault
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Two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. The heist begins smoothly, but mayhem ensues when the defiant bank manager sends them to a basement-level vault, home to something truly evil.
11) The poker house
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A young girl must deal with a mother who is on drugs, a father who is a pimp, and a home that is always filled with seedy characters, where she must help raise her two younger sisters.
12) Fam
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Clem's upbringing and teen years left a lot to be desired, but she pulled herself up, and built a fantastic life, great job, terrific apartment and an amazing fiance, Nick, a college professor from a well-to-do 'normal' family. Nick's warm and supportive parents, Rose and Walt, embrace Clem and complete the family she always wanted. But when Clem's wild-child half-sister, Shannon, appears on their doorstep to escape their train wreck of a dad, Nick...
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Set in 19th-century Europe and New Zealand, this sweeping romance tells the story of two beautiful sisters, one headstrong and one gentle, and of the man who marries one even though he loves the other. The film's riptides of emotion are matched by breathtaking physical tumult: a fierce Maori uprising plus a catastrophic earthquake and tidal wave that earned the film a 1947 Oscar for special effects.
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A heartfelt dramedy set in the bustling streets of New York City, this film follows a trio of Latina women grappling with love, loss, and the chaotic demands of family. Struggling to rebuild after past traumas, the women find themselves torn between the lives they've built and the families they left behind. With poignant performances by Elizabeth Rodriguez, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Daphne Rubin-Vega, this ensemble piece captures the complexity of modern...
16) Sisters
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Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad.
17) Happiness
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A dark comedy that centers around three sisters struggling to achieve happiness and middle class perfection.
18) Women in love
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Following the banning of his novel, The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence shocked his audience yet again with Women in Love. Combining elements of both novels, this adaptation focuses on the lives of two sisters, Ursula & Gudrun Brangwen, as they struggle with their own loves, desires, passions and relationships with two friends, Rupert Birkin & Gerald Crich. As Ursula & Birkin's friendship and love develops, Gudrun & Gerald's stormy and destructive relationship...
20) The lure
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Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", in which the girls' bond is tested and...
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