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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A tour-de-force performance from Mark Ruffalo leads this family saga, which follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. The six-episode limited drama series is based on Wally Lamb's New York Times bestseller and award-winning book, I Know This Much Is True.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the shadows beneath Central, the Elrics encounter Father, the creator of the Homunculi. His face is familiar - as is the new face of Greed - but his alchemy is unlike anything the brothers have ever seen. As Father's dark plot takes shape, Ed and Al brave the frigid north to meet the top officer of the fortress Briggs: General Olivier Armstrong. With icy nerve and burning intensity, she commands the hardest soldiers in the land.
4) A Ciambra
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Italiano
Description
In a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong Pio sets out to prove he's ready to step...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half-brothers are forced on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1241. The Mongol horde lead by cruel khan Burunda moves west, destroying everything in its path. Reaching the Carpathian mountains, the troops camp right below. However, at night several local hunters, the Berkut brothers, secretly enter the camp and free the hostages. Consumed with rage, the khan decides to take revenge and destroy the Carpathian settlements. A traitor amongst the locals tells the Mongols about a secret passage inside...
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's time for Bear Country adventures with Brother and Sister Bear! With 26 stories from the beloved animated series : Sister visits the dentist for the first time where she learns there is nothing to be afraid of; Brother and Sister both try out for the very last spot on Bear Country's baseball team; Papa and the bear scouts find themselves lost while exploring a cave; and lots more! These tales of bravery, caring for others, and learning responsibility...
10) The Blitz
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In 1940, a struggling poor young man falls for a girl who must pay a terrible price to save her mentally disabled brother by marrying a powerful shrewd businessman. Then Rotterdam Blitz, a devastating German bombardment, begins.
11) Acts of violence
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When his fiance is kidnapped by human traffickers, Roman and his ex-military brothers rush to save her before it's too late. Along the way, they team up with Detective Avery, a cop who's been investigating the local trafficking syndicate and fighting the corrupt bureaucracy that has been protecting it.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
14) Mouse hunt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Two brothers inherit a run-down mansion, and try to fix it up for sale to a preservation society. Their plans are foiled by a little mouse that has been living quite comfortably in the house by himself.
15) The Return
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Russian
Description
Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cool midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, the boys eagerly hop into a car for a fishing trip with a complete stranger they absolutely need to believe is their father. As they travel deep into the wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp to...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The live-action series follows the estranged members of a family of superheroes known as the Umbrella Academy. Years after disbanding, the siblings reunite after the death of their adoptive father, who trained them to save the world years ago. Each possessing unique powers and personalities, the dysfunctional members of the Umbrella Academy include Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Number Five, and Vanya.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction. Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both...
19) One Moment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It is the humorous and heartwarming story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their own lives while also caring for their recently widowed aging father. Welcome to the Sandwich Generation' where you care for your parents while still parenting your kids.'
20) Gretel & Hansel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
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