Tag Archives: dysfunctional family

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

Eliza D’Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her ...

The film follows the personal relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is a hit-man for the Russian mafia in Brooklyn.

A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying ...

A movie about a dysfunctional family of vampires and witches, it is mostly focused on the two children who are hybrids.

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel dies suddenly, the family has to come together. The story of ...

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch – unveiling a litany of ...

Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn’t expecting him to bring a friend — and she’s ...

Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As ...

A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.

An introspective young woman’s life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.

Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn ...

A dysfunctional family that can’t seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons ...

Chef who dreams of having own food trucks, agrees to pose as girlfriend of an attorney. Working together, they try to prove he’s the ideal ...

Kyoko, who couldn’t believe anything in the world and lived a desolate life, meets Katsuya Honda, who has been assigned as an educational ...

This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year ...

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional ...

Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her ...

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court’s findings were inconclusive and she was ...

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an ...

Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, ...

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate “Ma” Barker grows into a violently powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her ...

Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily ...

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, ...

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the ...

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help ...

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and ...