Tag: sister

  • Eyes of a Stranger

    A TV newswoman catches a pervert watching her sister who cannot see, hear or speak.

  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

    Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

  • Dark Bar

    Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister’s disappearance with the help of a friend.

  • Final Analysis

    A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.

  • Howards End

    A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

  • So I Married an Axe Murderer

    Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer — “Mrs. X” — wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking…

  • Kounterfeit

    Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful sister–and the hapless buddies find themselves caught between the…

  • Ripe

    When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army base, who takes them in. While Violet…

  • Manny & Lo

    A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

  • Marvin’s Room

    A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

  • Digging to China

    Precocious young Harriet and her older sister Gwen live at their mother’s motel in small-town New Hampshire. Harriet dreams of a life beyond her inattentive family and the stultifying town. A mentally disabled man named Ricky comes to stay at the motel, and Harriet finds him kinder and more interesting than anyone she has ever…

  • Suicide Kings

    Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter — each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

  • Soul Food

    Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe’s (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it’s up to grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond) to pull the family together and put the…

  • The Spanish Prisoner

    An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.

  • Female Perversions

    Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But below her veneer of self-confidence lies a darker side, one in which she is driven by bizarre visions and sexual fantasies. After a series of events, including rescuing her sister Madelyn after her arrest for shoplifting, being rejected by…

  • Dancing at Lughnasa

    Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

  • Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

    Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it’s not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her…

  • Practical Magic

    Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian’s vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov — and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil…

  • Hideous Kinky

    In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

  • The Invisible Circus

    After learning that her sister, Faith, has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe, an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister’s death by retracing her footsteps, which eventually leads to Wolf — Faith’s boyfriend. However, as…

  • Jeepers Creepers

    On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.