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298 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 boy with a facial difference starts school for the first time at ten, and the film hands the story around to the people near him. Warm and openly designed to move you.
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2025 · Horror
A college student keeps dreaming of a 1969 tower collapse her grandmother saw coming and stopped, and learns Death has been working through the survivors and their children ever since. The sixth in the series.
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2025 · Fantasy
Twenty-two years after her own body swap, Anna is marrying again, and her teenage daughter and soon-to-be stepsister cannot stand each other. A palm reading later, all four women wake up in the wrong bodies.
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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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2025 · Comedy
Happy Gilmore has been out of golf for eleven years and drinking, and takes it up again to pay for his daughter's ballet school in Paris. Same swing, same shouting, plus a rival league.
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2025 · Drama
In 1983 a Scottish schoolboy starts swearing uncontrollably in class, years before anyone can tell him why, and his school treats it as bad behaviour. Based on a real life, following him from twelve into his twenties.
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2025 · Drama
The Crawleys in 1930, with Mary's divorce making her unwelcome at other people's parties and Cora's brother arriving from America having lost the family money. The last of the three films, and it is dinners, drawing rooms and who is speaking to whom.
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2025 · Comedy
A lieutenant governor is handed the governor's office when her mentor quits, with fourteen months of his term left and a reporter already digging. Her estranged father picks the same week to reappear.
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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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2025 · Drama
A man walks into a remote forest to bring his brother a letter from home, asking him to come back and talk to the boy he left behind. Mostly two men in a hut, talking and not talking.
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2025 · Thriller
A well-off family gathers for a 25th wedding anniversary, and the son's fiancee turns out to be a former student with a political book of her own. It jumps forward in years, and it is mostly relatives arguing.
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2025 · Drama
Two weeks before Christmas an elderly woman collapses at home, and her husband and four grown children gather at the hospital and the house. Family arguing, in rooms, for most of it.
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2025 · Comedy
Two CIA operatives who walked away fifteen years ago are living as suburban parents until their cover breaks in a nightclub brawl their kids film. From there it is chases, gadgets and family bickering.
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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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2025 · Horror
A police officer transferred to Kashmir takes the case of a boy who vanished during a magic show, and moves his family into an old villa where things are not right. A ghost story and a police case at once.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A couple who have agreed to divorce spend one last Christmas at home with their two kids, and then he brings his new girlfriend along. A Christmas comedy that keeps the whole family in one house.
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2025 · Drama
A family in Chennai spends years saving for a three-bedroom house of their own, with rents rising faster than the savings. It follows them across many years, and the drama is money, jobs and exams.
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2025 · Drama
In the last weeks of the war, a twelve-year-old on a German island scavenges and barters to feed his family, and to find his mother the white bread and honey she craves. Quiet, small, told at his height.
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2025 · Drama
A Palestinian family is followed across three generations, from losing their home in Jaffa in 1948 to life under occupation in the 2020s. It runs long and moves in chapters, staying with the one family.
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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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2025 · Drama
Shakespeare's play moved to present-day London, where a rich young man, visited by his father's ghost, drifts out of his family's world into temples and homeless camps. Revenge, grief and a family in trouble.
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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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2025 · Family
Dora and her cousin Diego head into the Amazon after Sol Dorado, a fallen star said to grant one selfless wish, with a rival hunting the same thing. Traps, puzzles and jokes, made for kids.
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2025 · Comedy
An ex-cop working as a mob henchman takes one last job, it goes wrong, and he has a single night to get his wife and children out of the city. Waves of attackers, with jokes in between.
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2025 · Thriller
A tired driver hits a bike on the way home in 2014, and the decision he and an ambulance driver make about the baby they pull out of the wreck sets everything off. The film jumps years ahead from there, and takes its time.
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2025 · Comedy
A brother and sister find a dead body in their parents' basement. It is played as a comedy, with a small cast and a short running time.
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2025 · Drama
Four distant cousins clear out a Normandy house untouched since the 1940s and piece together the story of an ancestor who left for Paris in 1895 to look for her mother. It moves between the two centuries.
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2025 · Drama
A woman takes her nonbinary teenager to Amsterdam to stay with her gay father, and the kid asks to stay on for a year. Three generations in one flat, talking it out, based on the director's own family.
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2025 · Family
A boy who is sure his family is cursed finds an old idol in the attic just before the whole household sets off on a road trip in a very fancy RV. Things go wrong constantly, and for laughs.
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2025 · Drama
A rodeo rider comes to in the snow of a Nevada meadow with his horse gone and his foot freezing, and starts working his way towards shelter. It cuts between that walk and the life that got him there.
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2025 · Drama
The estranged sons of a reclusive novelist are called to see him after he becomes convinced he is about to die. Adapted from David Gilbert's novel, with a big cast and a family that has been apart a long time.
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2025 · Family
A girl fed up with her family's constant phone use wishes the phones away, and the whole family lands in the Middle Ages instead. A comedy for all ages about modern people with no signal.
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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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2025 · Animation
A feature-length Christmas special for the Nickelodeon cartoon series, with the whole Loud family, the McBrides and the Casagrandes celebrating together. Santa Claus and Krampus both turn up.
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2025 · Horror
Two children move into a new house with their mother after their parents' divorce, and slowly come to feel she is not the person she was. An Indonesian horror film taken from a thread posted online.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies, Lati throws herself into music against her Malian mother's wishes and tries to get a foothold in Barcelona's battle rap scene, coached by a former rapper. Music-led and close to her.
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2025 · Drama
An eight-year-old girl watches her Hungarian family settle on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, while her oldest brother's behaviour turns dangerous. It stays down at the girl's level throughout.
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2025 · Drama
A man from Mumbai goes back to the family village for his father's ten-day mourning period, where relatives keep asking why he is not married yet. He spends his days out in the fields with a childhood friend.
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2025 · Drama
A rich German family on holiday in Provence hit a young woman with their car, take her in, and then hire her to help around the house. Each of them wants something different from her, and it barely leaves the villa.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary about a tech millionaire trying to reverse his own ageing, with a daily regimen of food, drugs and measurement, and plasma passed between his father, himself and his son. It also looks at what it costs his family.
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2025 · Drama
In 1989 a family moves from town to town running a small theatre company, chasing the father's idea of a bigger stage. One son dreams of the New York theatre, the other just wants to stay put.
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2025 · Horror
After her parents die, a teenager moves in with her blind grandmother in Florida, where a local legend says the Sandman comes in dreams for people who have done wrong. She witnesses something and says nothing.
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2025 · Comedy
A paralegal is laid off and takes a job babysitting his psychiatrist's granddaughters. He falls for their mother.
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2025 · Drama
A father leaves his baby daughter in the back seat of his car by accident. The film follows what his life is like afterwards.
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2025 · Family
Javier García has the opposite of an empty nest: nobody in his family shows any sign of moving out. The fifth Spanish comedy about the same crowded household.
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2025 · Drama
In Taiwan in 1988, a withdrawn girl living in an unhappy house is drawn out by a lively girl her own age. Slow and quiet, and mostly about what home is like.
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2025 · Drama
A woman on the run from a drug den turns up at the door of the cousin she has not spoken to in five years, with men following close behind her. Twenty years of the two of them, cut between.
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2025 · Drama
In a crumbling mansion in north Calcutta, a young woman holds the household together after her husband disappears weeks into their marriage. She opens the house up for Durga Puja, and the first guest changes the mood of it.
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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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