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It is 1944 and thirteen year-old Tolly Oldknow is sent to spend Christmas with his grandmother, whilst his mother searches for news of his father in wartime London. In the old house, he becomes a witness to events during the Napoleonic wars and finds himself slowly drawn into participating in the drama. Invisible to most people in the past, he begins to unravel the mystery which has bewildered his family for two centuries. The solution to the puzzle...
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A human story of jealousy, blackmail, self-made men, frustrated ambitions and secrecy that takes place in Melbourne, Australia in the 19th century and involves an investigation into a homicide where the deceased was discovered on the inside of a hansom cab. The influential and secretive Frettlby family is at the center of the mystery, and the name of the killer himself is not as much significance in the story, as is the role of the Frettlby family...
83) Money matters
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A moving and intimate film that follows Monique 'Money' Matters caught at the brink of adolescence. Her relationship with her mother is far from stable and depicts the struggle between a young mother and daughter who both come of age together. Sharp and candid dialogues blur the roles of parent and child, revealing a family secret magnified by pain and years of regret.
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Morgan Carter is an out-of-control blonde teen Hollywood actress who goes from the red carpet to rehab before being sent to live in an Indiana suburb with her Aunt Trudy. Now, a brunette nobody named Claudia, Morgan must learn to deal with going from celebrity royalty to being the unpopular new girl in school. She will have to survive sobriety and her senior year, she just needs to make certain that the paparazzi and the cute boy next door don't discover...
85) Altered minds
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A son makes a desperate bid to save his sanity by unearthing family secrets before his father dies. Plagued by terrifying visions, Tommy Shellner hijacks a family celebration in an attempt to force a confession from his father who was once an undercover CIA psychiatrist. The warm reunion in their family home turns icy and spirals out of control when Tommy alleges his father adopted three children for the purposes of psychological experimentation.
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When newcomer Lena arrives in the small town of Gatlin she quickly captures the attention of Ethan, who only wants to escape what he views as a boring and dead end town. He quickly gets more than he bargained for. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town.
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"It's been nearly a year since their father's sudden death revealed the existence of siblings Cat and Cathy to each other -- and Colin's mistress, Marilyn, to his wife, Tess. The sisters are now reeling from the news that they have a secret brother, Callum -- whom Cathy just snogged. While Tess makes extravagant plans for spending her inheritance, Marilyn is furious to learn she wasn't Colin's only mistress and tracks down his other lover, Angela....
88) Eve's bayou
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"The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old" "So begins Kasi Lemmons's spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in a fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality. Rooted...
89) Three secrets
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A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption.
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In a decaying rural mansion, the last generation of the inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. Bruno, the family chauffeur, acts as their guardian and covers up their indiscretions. But when greedy distant relatives and their lawyer arrive to claim the family home, Bruno's shaky control over the children deteriorates and murder, chaos,...
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Arabic
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Directed by Cinzia Bomoll, this drama tells the story of a young Iraqi girl living in Rome, who finds herself rejected by both Italians and Arabs because of a secret in her past. Rahil is a twelve year old Iraqi refugee girl living in an impoverished neighborhood of Rome, Italy. Her story is revealed in a series of flashbacks, as told by Rahil herself, through the bars of a jail-cell from an undisclosed location.
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Swedish
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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
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When Peter learns that his childhood home is being repossessed, he has only five days to remove a lifetime of memories. Behind a locked door, he discovers that his dad recorded everything that was said in the house. Confronted by this shocking family secret, Peter must face memories of a distant father, a lost faith, and a startling betrayal.
95) Back roads
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A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface in this noir thriller.
96) The last keepers
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When the teenage daughter of the last survivors of an ancient line of Goddess worshipers falls in love with a poetic boy at school she awakens mysterious magical powers of her own and discovers family secrets that will change her life forever.
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May & June: May Thrace's resentment of her sister June runs very deep. Will the death of June's husband, and May's former beau, put it to rest? Or does May have a darker plot in mind?
The orchard walls: Sent by her mother to live in the country during the London blitz, sixteen-year-old Jenny senses unspoken secrets among her taciturn relatives, secrets that could turn deadly.
99) Sea change
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English
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A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.
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