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1) Auntie Mame
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In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated Auntie Mame--a lady who throws a party for any occasion or nonoccasion that comes to mind. He grows up and brings home his fiancée and her parents, and Mame finds them banal.
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Jules Daly is the new guardian to her niece and nephew. On the day she loses her job and nanny, an invitation arrives to spend a royal Christmas in Europe with the children's grandfather, the Duke of Castlebury Hall. Once Jules and the children arrive at the castle, laughter soon fills the once quiet halls, giving everyone hope and joy for the season. And when Jules captures the heart of the dashing Prince Ashton, both of their lives change in unexpected...
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'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
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"[A] contemporary mystery series that follows the adventures of newly promoted Detective Sergeant Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Though Matilda's strict boss warns her that homicides are police-only matters, her aunts can't help but offer their expertise, as well as unsolicited dating advice. As Matilda contends with a novelist killed during a blackout at an awards...
6) Serie noire
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Français
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Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a seventeen-year-old who lives with her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife Leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. But Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her aunt to get hold of her fortune.
8) Family
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It tells the story of eleven-year-old Maddie, a social misfit who practices karate moves with trees. Her self-absorbed, childless aunt, Kate, offers to take care of her for a week while Maddie's parents are busy, and it proves to be the most transformative week of young Maddie's life.
9) Pollyanna
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Pollyanna becomes an orphan and moves in with her aunt in a little English town. Everyone is affected by Pollyanna's big heart. They get the opportunity to repay Pollyanna for her goodness when she has a terrible accident.
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"Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
12) Lost in Paris
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"Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, 'Lost in Paris' stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters,...
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"In the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh, Detective Matilda Stone investigates crimes with the aid or, often, meddling of her three mystery-writing aunts, who raised her from childhood. Together, they look into a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. Matilda has decidedly less success with her personal affairs, continuing to pine for Dr. Daniel Lynch even as she begins...
14) Aunt Rose
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Three killers hide in a suburban home and prepare to wreak havoc on anyone who gets in their way. What they don't know is, on the third floor, one relative has her own wrath to unleash on anyone who crosses her. Every family has it's own skeletons!
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Jules Daly is the new guardian to her niece and nephew. On the day she loses her job and nanny, an invitation arrives to spend a royal Christmas in Europe with the children's grandfather, the Duke of Castlebury Hall. Once Jules and the children arrive at the castle, laughter soon fills the once quiet halls, giving everyone hope and joy for the season. And when Jules captures the heart of the dashing Prince Ashton, both of their lives change in unexpected...
17) Doña Perfecta
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Español
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"Pepe, a young upstart in the year of reforms, arrives in the township of Sante Fe, immediately creating hostility when he tries to force the townspeople to change their ways. He seeks refuge in the home of his Aunt Doña Perfecta, only to learn she opposes his liberal ideas more than anyone"--Container.
"En el México de los años de la Reforma la llegada de Pepe Rey, un joven agronomo liberal, al pueblo de Santa Fe provoca la hostilidad de los...
18) Mame
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The story focuses on the madcap life of Mame Dennis, which is disrupted when she becomes the guardian of her deceased brother's son. She marries a wealthy Southern plantation owner, is widowed, yet through it all, with the help of her dearest friend, Vera Charles, manages to keep things under control.
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The invisible enemy: The doctor is infected with a space virus and is soon fighting for control of his mind. Leela's only hope lies on a nearby medical satellite, where she seeks help from eccentric scientist Professor Marius and his dog-shaped computer, K-9 ; contains episodes 1-4.
K-9 and company, a girl's best friend : Sarah is looking forward the spending Christmas with her aunt. When she arrives, she finds her aunt missing, and a surprise present...
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Criterion collection volume 1153
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"Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness ... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
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