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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.
303 films tagged parents and children, 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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2000 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old talks a music magazine into sending him on tour with a rising rock band in 1973, without mentioning how old he is. Warm and funny, and most of it happens on the bus.
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2025 · Fantasy
On an island where Vikings have fought dragons for generations, the chief's inventor son shoots one down and cannot bring himself to kill it. A live-action remake, big and loud, with a boy and a dragon at the centre.
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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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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
A therapist looks after a daughter who has to be fed through a tube at night, in a motel room, because the ceiling of their flat came down. Her husband is away at sea, her clients are a lot, and she is not sleeping.
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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 · Horror
A lawyer and his teenage daughter hit a unicorn with the car on the way to his billionaire boss's estate, and find its blood cures whatever it touches. The family wants to make a business of it, and the comedy is at their expense.
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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 · Comedy
Bridget Jones is widowed with two young children, and everyone around her is saying it is time to start dating again. She goes back to work and gets chased by a man in his twenties.
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2025 · Comedy
A couple in New York end their marriage amicably and start working out how to live apart, and he begins turning up at open mic nights. Two people circling each other while trying to move on.
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2025 · Thriller
A horse trainer grieving her wife and barely keeping her farm going has a daughter who is an addict, in and out of rehab. One night the daughter turns up in a state that asks far more of her than money.
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2025 · Animation
Two kids trying to stop their parents splitting up go looking for the Sandman, who is supposed to grant one wish. Most of it happens in a dream world they can bend, with a talking stuffed giraffe along for it.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies suddenly, a woman buys a goshawk and gives herself over to training it, pulling away from everyone else while she does. Mostly her, the bird, and the fields.
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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 · Thriller
A former soldier takes her small son to the US consulate in Frankfurt, and when she comes back for him he is gone. Staff say he was never checked in, so she hides in the building and searches it herself.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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2025 · Thriller
A paramedic and her husband drive through the night toward their daughter, who has hit a girl with the car on a remote road and is panicking down the phone. You spend it in the car with the parents.
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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 · 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 · Drama
Franz Kafka in Prague, caught between a domineering father, a dull job at an insurance company and the urge to write. It follows him from his teens to his early death, through friendships and love affairs.
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2025 · Crime
A Texas gas station attendant falls for a con artist and takes off with him, scamming and robbing their way east towards the mother who left her as a baby. The jobs get bigger as they go.
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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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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 · 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
A child is admitted to hospital with malnutrition on a court order, and his mother will not leave his side. It runs barely over seventy minutes and holds close to the two of them.
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2025 · Comedy
In the late 1980s a group of reluctant fathers from working-class Bilbao are handed the job of taking their daughters to a gymnastics competition in Berlin. Most of it happens on the road.
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2025 · Comedy
A rich, vain Italian heir finds out his teenage daughter has run off to walk the Camino de Santiago, and sets out to bring her home. He loses his Ferrari and his toupee on the way.
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2025 · Drama
Two debt collectors are landed with a young girl who has been handed over as collateral against her mother's debts, and have to look after her. A drama built around that arrangement.
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2025 · Drama
A burned-out mother sets off on a road trip across Italy with her son, who has an intellectual disability. It is a road film, and it is mostly just the two of them.
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2025 · Drama
A woman stretched between her ailing parents, a strained marriage and a house in the country strikes up a friendship with a struggling single mother nearby. It stays close to the two of them.
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2025 · Thriller
A surgeon facing a medical negligence charge gets a call telling him his daughter has been taken, and spends the film racing to get her back. There are only three people on screen in the whole thing.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies, a ten-year-old girl and her mother are left with almost nothing, and she takes refuge in the theatre. Short, at 82 minutes, and told from the girl's side.
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2025 · Drama
A deaf woman living in rural Spain is expecting a baby with her hearing partner, and cannot stop thinking about how she will talk to her daughter. Close and quiet, mostly the two of them and a new baby.
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2025 · Drama
A father crosses rural Georgia looking for his daughter, a photographer who vanished while shooting football grounds, moving from one pitch to the next. Three hours, shot in very low resolution, and slow throughout.
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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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2005 · Action
A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A twelve-year-old who is close to her deaf mother starts at a school full of much richer kids and begins to feel ashamed of where she comes from. Quiet and small, and it stays close to her.
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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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2025 · Crime
A divorced army veteran robs fast food restaurants by cutting in through their roofs, more than forty times, and after escaping prison hides out inside a toy store. Based on a true story and played as a comedy.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1950 a stateless arms dealer survives his sixth assassination attempt and brings his daughter, a novice nun, into a huge building scheme he cannot fund. Most of it is him going partner to partner, talking money.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
In 1981 Bruce Springsteen comes off a sold-out tour, holes up in a rented house near his home town and records a demo album on a four-track in the bedroom. Mostly quiet: one man, a tape machine, and his father.
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2025 · Romance
A teenage girl and her mother are pushed apart by a sudden death in the family, while the girl falls for a boy in her class who wants to make films. A romantic drama running two love stories a generation apart.
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2025 · Science fiction
A widowed AI researcher wakes to water rising through her thirty-floor apartment block and tries to get her six-year-old to the roof. The UN knew this was coming, and it moves fast from there.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A school bus driver in Paradise, California turns back into a wildfire to collect twenty-two children and their teacher, with the roads closing behind him. Most of it is the drive itself.
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2025 · Horror
A man takes his wife and daughter to the remote Oregon house he grew up in, and something in the woods attacks him on the way. He starts to change, and most of the film is the three of them shut in that house.
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