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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action builds to a spectacular climax.
42) Going shopping
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Women speak to the camera about their shopping habits, making some vague attempt to explain or dissect them, but never actually reaching any revelations.
43) Chasing Liberty
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Anna, who is the daughter of the President of the United States, eludes the secret service and dashes around Europe with a mysterious stranger. She must tell her new found friend who she really is and risk a broken heart before her father catches her.
44) As you like it
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, placed in a setting inspired by nineteenth-century Japan, in which exiled royals--including a duke's daughter disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.
45) The Color Purple
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who is forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
46) Knock knock
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A family man's kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse when he opens the door to two stranded young women.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Seattle journalist Alienor Crespo travels to Spain to claim the promise of citizenship offered to the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. As she relives history through her vijitas (visits) with her ancestors, Alienor also confronts modern-day extremism and commits herself to protecting an endangered "Library of Light"--A hidden treasure trove of medieval Hebrew and Arabic books, saved from the fires of the Inquisition.
En este thriller...
48) SpaceCamp
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
A group of teenagers attend a summer camp designed to teach them the workings of the NASA space program.
50) Breezy
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A free-spirited young woman helps an older man learn to love again.
51) Caramel
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut, all with their own quirks and comedic problems they must deal with.
53) Boulder
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"La protagonista de Boulder se gana la vida como cocinera en un viejo barco mercante. Es la situación perfecta: soledad, una cabina, el océano, algún puerto en el que conocer mujeres y horas para encarar el vacío, para sentir la fuerza de la provisionalidad. Hasta que un día una de ellas consigue que abandone el mar, acceda a vivir entre cuatro paredes y se implique en la gestación asistida y en la educación de un hijo. ¿Qué ha hecho la maternidad...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...