Tag: family conflict

  • The Flower of Evil

    Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.

  • The Barbarian Invasions

    In this belated sequel to ‘The Decline of the American Empire’, middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy’s old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

  • The Best of Youth

    After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

  • Eulogy

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

  • Keeping Mum

    A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.

  • Hobal

    The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family’s foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.

  • Mayavi

    Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.

  • The Bad Mother’s Handbook

    Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she’s its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.

  • The Fighter

    Boxer “Irish” Micky Ward’s unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO’d by drugs and crime.

  • Madea’s Big Happy Family

    When Shirley, Madea’s niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley’s three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled lives to pay attention to their mother. It is up to Madea, with the help of rowdy Aunt Bam, to bring the clan together and help Shirley deal with her crisis.