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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
126 films tagged family, showing 50
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1972 · Crime
The ageing head of a New York crime family starts handing the business to his sons, and the youngest, who wanted no part of it, is pulled in. Much of it plays out in quiet rooms, in conversations about loyalty and who owes what to whom.
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2017 · Family
A small bear with very good manners takes odd jobs around London to buy his aunt a birthday present, then loses it to a thief nobody believes exists. He keeps his temper and his marmalade habit throughout.
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2016 · Drama
A Boston handyman is made guardian of his teenage nephew after his brother dies, which means going back to the town he left. The reason he left comes out slowly.
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2006 · Comedy
A family who can barely stand each other drive a failing camper van from New Mexico to California so the youngest can enter a children's beauty pageant. Everyone is having their own bad year.
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2022 · Science fiction
A woman running a failing laundromat is hauled in for a tax audit and told she has to save reality by borrowing skills from versions of herself in other universes. It is a family argument and a martial arts film happening at the same time.
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1998 · Drama
A former neo-Nazi comes out of prison set on pulling his younger brother back from the movement he helped build. Told in two strands, the present in colour and the past in black and white.
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2016 · Musical
A boy in 1980s Dublin, moved to a rough school when his parents run short of money, starts a band mostly to impress a girl standing outside it. They learn to play as they go.
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2005 · Thriller
A quiet diner owner in a small Indiana town stops a robbery and ends up on the news, which brings men from out of state who say they know him. Short, tense, and close to his family.
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2018 · Horror
A family lives on a farm in total silence, because anything that hears them comes for them. Most of it is signed or whispered, with long stretches where nobody makes a sound at all.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Horror
A mother and her children leave the farm and go looking for other survivors, in a world where anything that hears you comes for you. Long stretches with no talking, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Thriller
A family with no money talk their way one by one into jobs with a rich household on the other side of the city. The first half plays as a con, and they are good at it.
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2024 · Comedy
Two cousins who have drifted apart take a group tour of Poland to see the town their grandmother left. It is mostly the two of them talking, funny and awkward by turns.
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2011 · Drama
A Tehran wife wants to leave the country and her husband will not leave his father, and the woman they hire to mind him ends up taking them to court. Almost all of it is people arguing, and everyone has a point.
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2013 · Romance
A young man learns from his father that the men in the family can travel back to moments in their own lives, and starts by using it to get a girlfriend. Gentle and mostly about family, with the time travel kept small.
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2023 · Comedy
Two people whose first date ended badly turn up at the same wedding in Sydney and agree to fake being a couple to get everyone off their backs. Sunny, loud, and light all the way through.
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2010 · Animation
A family of four-inch people live under the floorboards of a country house, borrowing what they need, until the daughter is seen by the boy who has come to stay. Slow and quiet, with everything sized from her point of view.
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2023 · Comedy
Families gather in a tiny desert town in 1955 for a junior stargazing convention, and the week does not go to plan. The whole thing is staged inside a story about a play being written.
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2022 · Science fiction
Jake Sully's family leaves the forest and asks the reef clans for shelter, learning to live on and under the water. It runs well over three hours and is built to be looked at.
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2019 · Mystery
A wealthy crime novelist is found dead the morning after his birthday party, and a private detective with an odd accent turns up uninvited to work through a house full of relatives who all needed money. Everyone is lying about something small.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Horror
An anxious man sets out to fly home to his mother and falls instead through one strange situation after another. It runs three hours and looks less like the real world the further it goes.
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2013 · Romance
Nine years on, Jesse and Celine are together with twin daughters and spending the last day of a summer in Greece. It is nearly all the two of them talking, in takes that run for many minutes at a time.
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2021 · Drama
A nine-year-old boy's street in 1969 Belfast turns overnight into a place with barricades, and his parents have to decide whether to stay. Black and white, shot at kid height, and mostly family talk.
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2018 · Action
After his father's death, T'Challa comes home to take the throne of Wakanda, an African country hiding technology no one else has, and finds his claim challenged. A superhero film with a lot of family argument and court politics in it.
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2013 · Thriller
A man living out of his car hears that the person who killed his parents is being let out of prison, and drives home to do something about it. Very little talking, and he is not good at any of it.
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2010 · Romance
A married couple with a small daughter come apart over one day and one night, cut against the weeks when they first met. Two people talking, mostly, jumping between the two times.
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2021 · Drama
A radio reporter travelling the country interviewing children ends up looking after his nine-year-old nephew for a while. Black and white, quiet, and mostly the two of them talking.
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2018 · Drama
A twelve-year-old boy living rough in Beirut takes his parents to court for having him. Most of it follows him around the city day to day, shot hand-held with people who had not acted before.
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2016 · Drama
A father raising six children off the grid in the forest has to bring them into ordinary America for the first time. Funny and sad in the same scene, and mostly about what the kids make of him.
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2002 · Crime
A teenager passes himself off as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer while cashing millions in forged cheques, with one FBI agent slowly closing in. Light and quick, and always moving to another city.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Animation
A boy from a Mexican family that has banned music wants to play, and on the Day of the Dead he ends up in the land where his ancestors live. Bright, quick, and built around songs.
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2021 · Drama
The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.
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2018 · Comedy
A New York economics professor flies to a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend and finds out on the way that his family owns half the city. A romantic comedy with a very hostile mother-in-law at the centre.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Drama
A former wrestler in a village in Haryana decides his two daughters will win the gold medal he never did, and starts training them before either of them wants it. Long, loud, and built around the bouts.
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2001 · Science fiction
A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild biology professor finds he has started turning up in the dreams of strangers all over the world, doing nothing in particular. It plays as a comedy about sudden fame and gets darker as it goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Animation
In a city where fire, water, earth and air people keep to their own neighbourhoods, a shopkeeper's daughter made of fire meets a water guy who cries at everything. Bright, busy, and built around her parents' shop.
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2024 · Musical
A Mexico City lawyer with no prospects is hired by a cartel boss who wants help disappearing from his own life and becoming someone else. It is sung, and it swings between crime story and dance number.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Animation
Every child in a Colombian family gets a magical gift on their fifth birthday, except Mirabel, and now the house is cracking. Songs every few minutes and a lot of relatives to keep straight.
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2009 · Animation
A fox who promised his wife he would stop stealing chickens takes one more run at the three meanest farmers in the valley, who come after his whole neighbourhood. Stop-motion, dry jokes, everyone talking fast.
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2016 · Drama
A Pittsburgh garbage man in the 1950s, who nearly made it as a ballplayer, holds forth in his backyard to his wife, his sons and his oldest friend. Nearly all talk, nearly all one yard, and it started as a play.
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2023 · Drama
Summer 1957, and Enzo Ferrari is close to losing the company while a marriage and a second household pull at him, with one long road race left to win. More kitchens and offices than racetrack.
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2003 · Animation
A clownfish whose son is scooped up by a diver swims the length of the ocean to get him back, with a fish who forgets everything for company. Bright and quick, and funny most of the way.
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2018 · Drama
The years between Neil Armstrong joining NASA and stepping onto the Moon, at home as much as in the cockpit. Quiet and close in, with the flying shot from inside the capsule.
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2014 · Drama
A Swedish family are having lunch on a ski resort terrace when an avalanche comes at them, and they spend the rest of the holiday arguing about those few seconds. Uncomfortable to watch, and mostly one hotel.
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2013 · Drama
New Year's Eve in Oakland, and a twenty-two-year-old runs errands, picks up his daughter and tries to sort his life out. Based on real events, shot close and small, staying with one man hour by hour.
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2017 · Romance
A young man running his family's sheep farm in Yorkshire drinks himself stupid every night until a Romanian worker arrives for lambing season. Quiet, muddy, and very short on dialogue.
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2023 · Science fiction
A pilot who came home from the war alive and ashamed is rebuilding a life in flattened Tokyo when something huge starts coming ashore. Half of it is a family drama, half is a city being wrecked.
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2003 · Comedy
A young man in East Berlin whose mother sleeps through the fall of the Wall is told any shock could kill her, so he rebuilds the vanished country inside her flat. Gentle comedy with real history running behind it.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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