Movies (178) tagged by 'Dysfunctional Family'
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Step Brothers (2008)
Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) have one thing in common: they are both lazy, unemployed leeches who still live w...
The Outsiders (1983)
Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The tension between two groups: The Greasers and The Socials "Socs" puts Ponyboy Curtis (Howell) and his best f...
Monster's Ball (2002)
Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank i...
The Afflicted (2010)
Leslie Easterbrook plays the lead role of 'Mother Maggie', a disturbed mother of four who delivers an unimaginable level of abuse to her children while defendin...
Shameless (2011)
Meet the fabulously dysfunctional Gallagher family. Dad's a drunk, Mom split long ago, eldest daughter Fiona tries to hold the family together. Eldest son Phili...
Factory Girl (2006)
A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist name...
Blue Valentine (2010)
BLUE VALENTINE is a story of love found and love lost told in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtsh...
Little Boy Blue (1997)
Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a s...
An Unexpected Love (2003)
Kate Mayer seems to have it all: a nice suburban house, two loving children and a devoted husband. But Kate is anything but happy. She is disappointed not only ...
The Quiet (2006)
This erotic and suspenseful tale of sex, lies and betrayal stars Elisha Cuthbert as Nina Deer, a pretty cheerleader whose life is turned upside-down by the a...
Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Raymond Aibelli is a promising medical student ready to begin a prestigious summer internship. But Susan, his mother, is immobilized by a broken leg, and his fa...
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Big-hearted Chicago family man Chet has brought his family to a lakeside resort area, and although his wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is, Chet has ...
The Housemaid (2010)
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences.
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulle...
Polyester (1981)
A frustrated housewife, Francine Fishpaw (Divine ), tries to maintain her sanity while taking care of her dysfunctional household. Elmer (Davi...
War Room (2015)
A seemingly perfect family looks to fix their problems with the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman.
Khoobsurat (1999)
Sanju (Sanjay Dutt) a con-man and petty thief, gets in the bad books of Jogia Seth (Paresh Rawal) and ends up owing him money, which he does not have. In order ...
Geminis (2005)
A domineering mother with a seemingly perfect family in Argentina is unaware of a taboo relationship happening with her youngest children.
Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Sidda Walker (Sandra Bullock), who is high on life--about to marry Connor (Angus MacFadyen) and flushed with success because her new play is about to open on ...
What's Cooking? (2000)
What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Sit back, relax and enjoy this generous and charming tale of four very different f...
Almost Christmas (2016)
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.
Harry + Max (2004)
Harry is a 23-year-old former boy band idol who is watching his younger brother Max, 16, follow in his footsteps. Harry has detoured on his way to a Japanese co...
The Judge (2014)
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, a...
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with D...
Imaginary Heroes (2005)
Tim Travis (Emile Hirsch) is walking through his life like it's a bad dream. His mother Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) is the master of the Travis h...
Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Gomez and Morticia are horrified to discover that Grandpa and Grandma Addams have a rare disease that is slowly turning them "normal". The only chance they have...
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a mor...
The Glass Menagerie (1987) (1988)
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Flirting with Disaster (1996)
An adoption-agency psychologist (Tea Leoni) tempts a new father (Ben Stiller) while they and his wife (Patricia Arquette) search for his birth...
Les quatre cents coups (1959)
Antoine Doinel is branded a trouble maker at his school due to his problems at home... He finds comfort at the cinema where the world can offer more than his...
Mitr, My Friend (2002)
Chidambaram-based Lakshmi gets married to Prithvi and re-locates to live with him in San Francisco, U.S.A.. Even though he is employed, he makes time for her an...
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of f...
Amrit (1986)
Widowed Kamla Srivastav lives in a Bungalow named "Kamla Nivas", named after her by her late husband, Shrikant, where she now lives with her grown son, Virendra...
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken u...
Enid (2009)
Enid (2009) Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents’ rows before the father deserts the family. Whils...
Mother's Day (2010)
In the thriller arriving in theaters April 1, three brothers on the run from the law head for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house in a forec...
Model Behavior (2000)
Opens with Alex at a party where she and her friend Sharon discuss Alex wanting to go to a ball with Eric Nilsson. When Alex tries to talk to him he tells her ...
Twelve Thirty (2010)
TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of...
The Tracey Fragments (2007)
Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the s...
Texas Killing Fields (2011)
In what's has been called one of the most shocking true stories ever discovered, there have been over 60 bodies found in an area known as the "Killing Fields" i...
Open Window (2006)
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Bean (1997)
Bean works as a caretaker at Britain's formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can't beca...
Terror in the Family (1996)
Fifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she can't have her way, her rebellious temperament erupts in violence. Her ...
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Female relatives (Glenn Close, Julianne Moore) scheme to avoid scandal at an eccentric's death, wrongly blamed on a caretaker.
August: Osage County (2013)
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 Oklahoma house they...
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Roger Hobbs is a harried city dweller who longs to take his family to the seashore for a vacation. He and his wife Peggy do get the family to the sand, but new...
Class of 1999 (1990)
Warring teenage gangs unite against androids placed in their high school to keep order.
The Beaver (2011)
It is rather eccentric that in the film the Beaver narrates a story. It is about a man (Mal Gibson) who is permanently in a deep depression. He cannot talk to h...
All I Want for Christmas (1991)
"All I Want For Christmas" is a comedy about two New York City children who launch a hilarious scheme to get what they most want this holiday season. Ethan, a ...
Our Mother's House (1967)
When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father , Charlie, reappea...
Ronnie & Julie (1997)
Capulet becomes Cappell, and Montague becomes Monroe in yet another modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's classic "Romeo & Juliet." This time, the adult family...
Infection (2004)
Michael is tired of the family getting free handouts from the Bluth Company without doing anything, so he puts them to work. He puts Lindsay to work at the com...
Terror on the Beach (1973)
A family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
Pecker (2000)
A blue-collar Baltimore teen (Edward Furlong) becomes a New York celebrity when a dealer discovers his photos of sandwich-shop customers. ...
Little Odessa (1995)
This film tells a bitter tale of a dysfunctional family. Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer, returns to his Brighton Beach boyhood home for a "job." He...
The Pit (1981)
Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a misunderstood lad. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has ...
Trust (1992)
TRUST tells the darkly comic tale of an unlikely romance between Maria (Adrienne Shelly), a well-meaning yet thoughtless pregnant teenager, and Matthew (Marti...
Palookaville (1995)
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungle...
Eulogy (2005)
When three generations of a dysfunctional family gather in Rhode Island to bury the family patriarch, members of the Collins clan are at each other's throats i...
About Schmidt (2002)
Warren Schmidt is forced to deal with an ambiguous future as he enters retirement. Soon after, his wife passes away and he must come to terms with his daughter'...
Höstsonaten (1978)
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daug...
Broken Lance (1954)
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the ...
Crooked House (2017)
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, private detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia,...
Cops and Robbersons (1994)
When police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robber...
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa -- are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives b...
Accidents Happen (2009)
There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his b...
Coming Soon (1999)
Three young women come together in college and quickly determine that one has never had an orgasm, they quickly decide that they are going to make sure she has ...
The Family Tree (2011)
A dysfunctional family is nothing to be proud of. That's why people go to see therapists. You would think that going to see a therapist would prompt people to w...
Coopers’ Camera (2008)
Dec. 25th, 1985: a dysfunctional family's Christmas disintegrates into madness once an estranged uncle shows up for the holiday. Told primarily through the eye...
The Bleeding House (2011)
A stranger with mysterious intentions comes to stay the night at a secluded country home, but what he finds inside is a family torn apart by a violent past and ...
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
The Kelley family seems on the brink of dissolution: Allan's date farm is based in the California desert miles from the nearest hamlet, his harvest has been ba...
Company (2002)
A gangster develops a strong bond with a new recruit, but a battle erupts when the two become enemies.
Maps to the Stars (2014)
A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Petunia (2012)
An off beat family of New Yorkers must come to terms with their own misgivings about life, relationships and the sheer unpredictability of love itself. Petunia ...
Broken (2012)
Beginning in 2005, Palestinian Emad Burnet records his village's resistance to the encroachment of Israeli settlements. ...
Dalecarlians (2005)
Mia, who's living in Stockholm, comes home to her small childhood town to celebrate her father's birthday. There she find herself looked down upon by her oldest...
Blue My Mind (2017)
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation which calls her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate a...
Mommy (2014)
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They ref...
The Town Christmas Forgot (2010)
On his way to luxury resort fro the Christmas holiday, banker Charles Benson's car breaks down, so his family gets stuck in Nowhere, Colorado, a sleepy town whi...
The Watch (2008)
Brian is arrested after bribing the arbitrator. Tish wants Nick to find a way that will keep him out of jail by any means necessary but Tripp disagrees saying t...
All Roads Lead to Rome (2015)
Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decide...
Home for the Holidays (1995)
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larso...
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1947)
Poor Andy, all he wants to do is get to town and continue to woo his girl and ask her hand in marriage. Andrew "Andy" Hardy met his sweetheart Kay Wilson in co...
Aloft (2014)
Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.
What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
Explores the meaning of life and suggests how best to live and love.
Minding the Gap (2018)
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten thei...
In The Bedroom (2001)
A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.
In Memory of My Father (2005)
A self-proclaimed (somewhat justifiably) film legend bribes his son to document his death under the unquestioning assumption that it will be historically import...
Compound Fracture (2013)
After the gruesome death of his sister, Michael Wolffsen (HALLOWEEN's Tyler Mane) returns home with his fiancee and his recently orphaned nephew (Alex Saxon) to...
The Pharmacist (1933)
Fields is happy enough in his shop but tormented at home. His wife and daughters drive him crazy (one daughter talks on the phone forever; the other wants to e...
The Plan (2008)
Jeremy gets Nola to admit that she has feelings for him but later sees her with Simon Elder. She tells him he is blackmailing her. Brian goes to church to pray...
When Do We Eat (2005)
A family's Passover gets screwy after the patriarch unknowingly ingests a hit of Ecstasy.
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Eldorado (2008)
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. He doesn't call the police and decides to give the young man a lift home to his parents
That Splendid November (1969)
After the death of his father, 17-year-old Nino is finding adolescence a traumatic and lonely ordeal. One autumn, during a holiday on the slopes of Mount Etna, ...
Unhook the Stars (1996)
Character study about Mildred, an elderly woman who has spent her life caring for others. When her daughter finally leaves home, she finds that, for the first t...
Cow (2008)
Bart joins a young farmers' group for the summer and raises a cow he calls Lou,helped by local girl Mary. Apalled when he finds out that Lou is destined for the...
Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1992)
A young boy learns to appreciate the music of his upstairs boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Paper Boys (2009)
A ragtag bunch of teenage door to door salesmen wreak havoc and spread the news of their coming of age in this summer before they begin their college lives. It ...
Just Melvin Just Evil (2000)
An in-depth look at the director James Ronald Whitney's family history of incest spanning at least three generations and the devastating consequences that inclu...
MDMA (2017)
In 1984, the most powerful drug dealer on the west coast was a 19 year old coed. Based on actual events.
No Hard Feelings (2008)
Cameron Hastings is just like any other fifteen-year-old. Unfortunately, his carefree existence is shattered when his parents, Charlotte and Craig, burden him w...
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Andy's girlfriend Polly is planning to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in his plans to take her to the country club Christmas party. He ...
Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
Absent father, alcoholic brother Tim try to cope with life.
Don't Look Behind You (1999)
Thriller about a family thrust into the Federal Witness Relocation program that fails, in deadly ways, to protect them.
Road North (2012)
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to bond with his son, on a road trip to the north.
Life's a Breeze (2013)
Life's A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Betrothed (2016)
A trip to the store turns into a surreal nightmare when a college student is kidnapped by a deranged, dysfunctional family. Now Audra West finds herself trapped...
Miss Firecracker (1989)
Carnelle isn't happy with her life, so in order to improve herself she enters a local beauty contest, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's win many years ago. F...
Tied in Blood (2012)
George, convinced a ghost killed his family, hires Robert, a talented Medium frustrated by his job. As the dead return to tell of ghostly seduction, demonic rag...
Zen and the Art of Landscaping (2001)
All manner of family secrets are out when the lawnmower man is invited inside one fateful day.
Blue River (1995)
The stormy relationship of a young teenage boy with his troubled older brother is told in an extended flashback segment bookended by what happens when the two m...
The Discoverers (2012)
A road movie about a dysfunctional family who embark on a Lewis and Clark re-enactment trek and discover themselves and each other in the process.
Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977)
A revival of the popular '60s TV comedy series "The Addams Family" has them preparing for Halloween in their own inimitable way.
Cake (2005)
A travel writer (Graham) who begrudgingly assumes control of her father's wedding magazine finds the new experience might just change her take on love.
Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
Retired singing star, Angela Arden, heads a dysfunctional family. Her husband, filmmaker Sol Sussman, hates her and has a kissy relationship with his nubile dau...
Crooked Hearts (1991)
How the discovery of a father's affair affects each member of his family.
Fourteen Hours (1951)
An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. H...
The Daytrippers (1996)
When a happily married woman discovers a love letter written by her husband to an unknown party, she enlists her dysfunctional family to discover the truth.
Awkward Thanksgiving (2014)
Dealing with family is hard, the rest is just gravy. Thanksgiving is a time when families get together to eat good food and share in the spirit of thankfulness....
The Old Dark House (1963)
An American who sells cars in England receives a mysterious invitation from an old, eccentric millionaire to visit his house in which he lives with his twin bro...
Bleed American (2019)
A bold portrait of misguided youth as they learn the cruelties of life in the American Midwest.
Blood Relations (1988)
The members of a severely dysfunctional family get together at a snow-covered, isolated mansion in the winter. There the family members - including the father, ...
Gyakufunsha kazoku (1984)
The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not w...
Keys to Tulsa (1997)
Richter Boudreau, the son of local celebrity Cynthia, is not very successful and works as a film critic for a local newspaper. In a short time he loses his job ...
Alone for Christmas (2013)
When a family visits Grandma's house on Christmas Eve, they leave their dog at home alone. And when burglars try to take the presents from under the tree, t...
Beep (2021)
Set in a hospital, Beep is a tender, bittersweet and funny sitcom about a family's vigil at the bedside of their dad Tommy, who lies helplessly in a coma.
Twister (1989)
Delusional and spoiled Maureen and her eccentric brother Howdy decide to track down and meet their estranged mother, all while the drama of dysfunctional relati...
Ulee's Gold (1997)
A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.
The Entertainer (1960)
On the far side of middle age, Archie Rice lives in a British seaside resort with his father, retired successful vaudevillian Billy Rice, second wife Phoebe Ric...
The Fight (2018)
Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and...
Cousins (1989)
Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.
It's... Francy's Friday (1972)
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The Illegal Immigrant (1985)
Cheung, an illegal immigrant in a completely Chinese area of New York, is caught by two US Immigration Officers. He arranges to pay Cindy Li, the Chinese-Americ...
My Dog Stupid (2019)
Henri is a middle-aged writer in crisis. Just at a time when he assesses of his life, an enormous gray dog, impolite and smelly, sneaks into Henri's house.
The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
A road movie where two brothers search for their biological parents.
For Ziko (2022)
Zeko, the only child from a dysfunctional family, has won a chance to compete in a contest for smartest kid in the country. Filled with hope, whole family sets ...
Around June (2008)
A love story set in the shadow of the shipyards of San Francisco. A young woman (June) living with her much adored uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father (...
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
College-bound Andy (Mickey Rooney) blurts marriage proposals to his sweetheart Polly (Ann Rutherford) and her pert swimmer friend Sheila (Esther Williams). (Sou...
Las mantenidas sin sueños (2005)
An exploration into mother-daughter relationships and the struggles of a precocious 10-year-old child to raise her cocaine-addicted mother who gets unexpectedly...
The Family I Had (2017)
In The Family I Had, a mother recalls how her brilliant teenage son came to shatter their idyllic family through one horribly violent and shocking act.
Lovers, Liars and Lunatics (2006)
Two inept robbers take a dysfunctional family hostage during a burglary gone wrong, and are soon victimized by their own hostages.
The Female Animal (1958)
An aging film star and her alcoholic daughter compete for a handsome extra.
Le code a changé (2009)
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.
Innocence (1997)
Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence. He is scared of life outside as he goes to an address given to him by another prisoner.
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
Mano po (2002)
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and L...
The Barber Shop (1933)
An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.
As High as the Sky (2012)
Margaret has always been a little... particular. But since being jilted by her fiance, her obsessive-compulsive behaviors are in overdrive. The last thing she n...
Mother of a Day (2019)
A man forgets Mother's Day and has one hour to sneak out of his house and, with no money, find adequate gifts for the moms in his life - or face their wrat...
Family Sins (1987)
Bryan's picture-perfect family isn't all that it appears; Dad loves Bryan's spoiled little brother more than his older son, leading to psychotic ...
I pugni in tasca (1965)
A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
Ai no yamai (2018)
Emiko is a divorced single mother who has barely any cash to spare. Her ex-husband is also trying to get money out of her. She meets labourer Shinnosuke on a da...
American Hollow (1999)
This film tells the tale of a close-knit Appalachian family that has changed little in the last 100 years.
The Architect (2006)
An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
Suzy Q (1999)
A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
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