Tag: parent child relationship

  • Donnie Darko

    After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

  • Big Girls Don’t Cry

    Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they’re both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati’s parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what appears to be a harmonious and liberal family. But the girls discover how quickly their attractive world can fall apart when, at a hip nightclub, they happen to see Steffi’s father in the arms of another woman. Steffi is shocked, her trust in her small perfect world shaken to the core. She can only think of one thing: revenge.

  • Pitaah

    A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers – one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh – who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately. And the other is Rudra, a poor laborer employed by Avadh, who wants justice when he finds out that his nine year old daughter, Durga, has been beaten and brutally raped by Avadh’s sons, Bachhu, and Bhola. Amidst this background we have a corrupt doctor, who is willing to change his medical report after he is bribed appropriately; and a Police Inspector, Ramnarayan Bhardwaj, who is willing to drop any charges against Avadh’s sons provided he gets his “dues” from the Thakur.

  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

    A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the “Yaya sisterhood” – long time friends of the mother.

  • Igby Goes Down

    Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there — and sets about finding it.

  • Crossroads

    After eight years apart, three childhood friends – Lucy, Kit, and Mimi – rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. With barely a plan, practically no money but plenty of dreams, the girls catch a lift with Mimi’s handsome friend Ben in his convertible. Along the way they not only gather experiences that will change their lives, but they also discover how important it is to hold onto their hearts’ desires.

  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding

    A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

  • John Q

    John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son’s name on the donor’s list.

  • Ang Tanging Ina

    Desperate to provide a comfortable life for her children, Ina willingly takes all kinds of jobs available to her. But what happens when Ina’s family continues to fall apart despite all her sacrifices?

  • Blueprint

    The story of the first cloned human being – told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She – a person who wanted to live for ever – does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world’s first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before…