Movies: Dysfunctional family

Nothing brings a loving family together like a friendly board game over the holidays. This is not that story....

The story of a boy made of trash, built by his creator Gordon Grott as a surrogate for his estranged son. When Scraps comes to life one day and sees what a perfect family looks like, he decides to try and bond with the only father figure he has....

For two decades, Éva Janikovszky wrote her famous children's monologues, which have remained popular ever since. In some of her books, she always writes about the problems of her boy protagonist, which are related to a particular age. This is how the...

An exhausted and under-appreciated Dana Langley leads a funeral that doesn't seem to end....

When a sleazy businessman threatens an aging video store with closure, Kelly, Mike, and Gerald, the store's three employees, do everything they can to stay in business— even the most drastic of measures....

Changed is a short dramedy about a gay couple that explores the significance of family while struggling to keep their own relationship alive....

Alejandra returns to Peru. She discovers that her father is alive and in prison. Soon, her journey will become a voyage of inner discovery that will bring her closer to her father, her country, and her own identity....

The film examines the painful relationship between fathers and sons through the eyes of one family. Four generations of men are featured in the film. Father to Son deals with the conflict between generations and their subjective memories, and the wa...

Every person handles grief and loss differently. This film reveals the experience of three sisters with care and a little laughter as they deal with death....

Interpersonal relationships in a dysfunctional family under the microscope of the camera....

Secrets, lies, and old wounds lay bare in this hilarious story about a dysfunctional family....

On the shores of solipsism, Luis interrogates the impulses that led him into an affair with his married supervisor at work, to face the emotional absences driving his actions and the uncertainties of moving on....

A motherless young man tries to clear his name after he kills his abusive stepfather in defense of his sister....

A recently widowed single mother, struggling to raise her depressed son alone, finds hope when her son’s best friend asks him out....

After the inexplicable appearance of a second daughter in her house, a demanding mother will have to choose what kind of child she wants to have....

Former child prodigy James Harries and his family may at first sight seem to be a houseful of geniuses, but although every single member has a Ph.D. in Metaphysics, we soon discover that some were purchased from a fake university in the USA, while th...

Shot in eleven days in the countryside of Southern Belgium, Gerda 85 is the first feature-length movie made by Patricia Gélise and Nicolas Deschuyteneer. Inspired by their own lives, they draw a portrait of a young girl in the mid-1980s. This low-b...

Shaurya after being fed up with his environment, comes together with his crew to point out the elephant in the room. After suffering in a dysfunctional family for most of his life and realising its visceral impact on his mother (Madhu), he convinces ...

Unable to deal with her mother's death, Samantha turns to her drawings for solace. She discovers she is able to bring her drawings to life and attempts to bring her mother back. In doing so, she finds out the truth behind her mother's death....

As a divorced father and his two daughters share a meal, buried grudges resurface, threatening to shatter their fragile bond....