Tag: family relationships

  • Berdel

    Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and his first wife gives birth to their forth daughter.

  • I Wish I Were a Pigeon

    The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named “Ernst Thalmann” in eastern Croatia. The focus is a family whose members fight on different sides of the barricade.

  • Famine-33

    The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel ‘The Yellow Prince’ by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.

  • Olivier, Olivier

    Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother’s house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing and nearly destroys his mother.

  • Day-O

    A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.

  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

    Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad’s credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he’s determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store…

  • Spies

    Long Island, 1942. 12-year-old Harry detects spies everywhere. But suddenly things get serious, as he and two evacuated London kids, Ned and Flo, stumble onto a real adventure. The children end up with America’s destiny in their hands.

  • Stepmonster

    Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it becomes a race against time for Todd to stop this hideous, carnivorous creature from marrying his dad and ruining his life.

  • This Boy’s Life

    When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

  • Rudy

    Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had…

  • A Home of Our Own

    In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.

  • Trading Mom

    The Martin kids learn of a magic spell that will take them to the ‘mommy market’ so they can get a more user friendly model. After giving a few other moms a try, they want their own back. But that is not so easy.

  • In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness

    After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.

  • Don’t Talk to Strangers

    After Jane’s first marriage collapses, she and her new husband Patrick Brody attempt to build a new life and move to a new state. However, her ex-husband follows them with a view to revenge.

  • A Million to Juan

    Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people…

  • Jason’s Lyric

    The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.

  • The Secret of Roan Inish

    Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so…

  • Forrest Gump

    A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

  • Arrested Development

    The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.

  • Halt and Catch Fire

    During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio – a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy – take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

  • The Ice Storm

    In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.