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Genre "Family Drama" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 108 total)
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Genre:
Drama,
Urban Drama,
Family Drama,
Coming-of-Age.
Director:
Dito Montiel.
Actors:
Robert Downey, Jr.,
Shia LaBeouf,
Chazz Palminteri,
Dianne Wiest,
Channing Tatum,
Melonie Diaz,
Martin Compston,
Eric Roberts,
Rosario Dawson,
Adam Scarimbolo.
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The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of one boy's struggle to escape the grim fate that awaits his aimless, trouble-minded peers. For most of Montiel's friends, the only means of escaping their bleak surroundings were drugs, prison, or death. In breaking the cycle and making a name for hi ...
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A River Runs Through It (1992)
Genre:
Drama,
Family Drama,
Americana,
Coming-of-Age.
Director:
Robert Redford.
Actors:
Craig Sheffer,
Brad Pitt,
Tom Skerritt,
Brenda Blethyn,
Emily Lloyd,
Edie McClurg,
Stephen Shellen,
Nicole Burdette,
Susan Traylor,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Vann Gravage,
Chuck Adamson,
Philip A. Braun,
Rob Cox,
David Creamer,
Michael Cudlitz,
Byron Dingman,
MacIntyre Dixon,
Jim Dunkin,
Hawk Forssell,
D. Gorton,
William Hootkins,
Don Jeffery,
Prudence Johnson,
Cecily Johnson,
Rex Kendall,
Margot Kiser,
Martina Kreidl,
Jack Kroll,
Tracy Mayfield,
Anne Merrem,
Fred Oakland,
Lincoln Quesenberry,
Robert Redford,
Madonna Reubens,
Arnold Richardson,
Kathy Scharler,
Jess Schwidde,
Caleb Shiff,
Buck Simmonds,
Noah Snyder,
Jacob Snyder,
Chuck Tweed.
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Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, the older son in his family, who takes his school work and writing a bit too serious ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Genre:
Drama,
Coming-of-Age,
Family Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Elia Kazan.
Actors:
Dorothy McGuire,
Joan Blondell,
James Dunn,
Lloyd Nolan,
Peggy Ann Garner,
Ted Donaldson,
James Gleason,
Ruth Nelson,
John Alexander,
B.S. Pully,
Ferike Boros,
John Farrell MacDonald,
Adeline Reynolds,
George Melford,
Mae Marsh,
Vincent Graeff,
Susan Lester,
John Berkes,
Lillian Bronson,
Alec Craig,
Charles Halton,
Al Bridge,
Joseph J. Greene,
Virginia Brissac,
Harry Harvey, Jr.,
Bob Anderson,
Art Smith,
Norman Field,
George Meader,
Erskine Sanford,
Martha Wentworth,
Francis Pierlot,
Peter Cusanelli,
George Carleton,
Al Eben,
Teddy Infur,
Mickey Kuhn,
Robert Malcolm,
Constance Purdy,
Nicholas Ray,
Harry Seymour,
Robert Strange,
Joyce Tucker.
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One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable but irresponsible alcoholic whose dreams of improving his family's lot are invariably doo ...
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Set in Norway and Scotland, Aberdeen is a road movie that is as concerned with the geography of the heart as that of a topographical map. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is an ambitious lawyer who has just celebrated her recent promotion by having dominant sex with a man whose name she has no interest in learning. When her estranged mother, Helen (Charlotte Rampling), whom she hasn't been in contact with for ...
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American Flyers (1985)
Genre:
Drama,
Sports Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
John Badham.
Actors:
Kevin Costner,
David Marshall Grant,
Rae Dawn Chong,
Alexandra Paul,
Janice Rule,
Luca Bercovici,
Robert Townsend,
Robert Anderson,
Gregg Hayden Bilson II,
Christine Blackwell,
Peter Boyles,
Steven Burch,
John J. Caraccioli,
Cathy Carr,
Martin Chenoweth,
Brian Drebber,
Jim Flanagin,
Sig Frohlich,
John Garber,
Jennifer Grey,
Michael Harshberger,
Barbara Hinchcliffe,
Debbie James,
Doi Johnson,
Judy Jordan,
Katherine Kriss,
Tom Lawrence,
Craig Manning,
Eddy Merckx,
Jessica Nelson,
Brad Peterman,
Jan Speck,
Kate Sullivan,
James Terry,
Greg Walker,
Christopher Ziesmer.
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It takes a fierce three-day bicycle race up in the mountains to reunite two formerly feuding brothers in this film written by Steve Tesich, the creator of another cycle movie, 1979's Breaking Away. This film will please the cycling lovers out there, as it includes actual footage taken from the famous Coors International Bicycle Classic, held in the Colorado Rockies. The plot revolves around the su ...
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An Unfinished Life (2005)
Genre:
Drama,
Melodrama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Lasse Hallström.
Actors:
Robert Redford,
Jennifer Lopez,
Morgan Freeman,
Becca Gardner,
Damian Lewis,
Camryn Manheim,
Lynda Boyd,
Robin Hayter,
P. Lynn Johnson,
Josh Lucas,
Trevor Moss,
R. Nelson Brown,
Dillard Brinson,
Jason Diablo,
Sean Dory,
Bryan Korenberg,
Danielle Dunn-Morris,
Sandra Polson,
Dale Kipling,
Jill Teed,
Jayne Dancose,
Ken Camroux,
Bart the Bear.
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Two generations of a damaged family are brought together in this emotional drama. Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher whose spread went to seed after he developed a serious drinking problem. Now on the wagon, Einar looks after what's left of his spread with his friend Mitch (Morgan Freeman), a one-time cowhand who never fully recovered after being mauled by a bear. Einar ...
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Aparajito (1956)
Genre:
Drama,
Coming-of-Age,
Urban Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Satyajit Ray.
Actors:
Kali Bannerjee,
Karuna Bannerjee,
Pinaki San Gupta,
Kanu Banerji,
Smaran Ghosal,
Ramani Sen Gupta,
Subodh Ganguly,
Charu Ghosh,
Santi Gupta,
Ajay Mitra,
K.S. Pandey,
Kali Charan Ray,
Sudipta Ray.
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The Unvanquished is the second of Indian director Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy" (the first was Pather Panchali). Ray's young protagonist Apu is permitted a formal education over the gentle objections of his mother, who'd wanted him to be priest. Eventually, Apu earns a university scholarship and arrives in the teeming metropolis of Calcutta. Overwhelmed by life in the Big City, the impres ...
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At Close Range (1986)
Genre:
Drama,
Crime,
Crime Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
James Foley.
Actors:
Sean Penn,
Christopher Walken,
Mary Stuart Masterson,
Chris Penn,
Millie Perkins,
Candy Clark,
Eileen Ryan,
Alan Autry,
R.D. Call,
Tracey Walter,
J.C. Quinn,
David Strathairn,
Jake Dengel,
Crispin Glover,
Kiefer Sutherland,
Noelle Parker,
Doug Anderson,
Terry Baker,
Terri Coulter,
E.R. Davies,
Janie Draper,
Michael Edwards,
Marshall Fallwell, Jr.,
James Foley,
Stephen Geoffreys,
Gary Gober,
bonita Hall,
Paul Herman,
Charles Tatoo Jensen,
Anna Levine,
Bob McDivitt,
Myke R. Mueller,
Nancy Sherburne.
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Amazingly, At Close Range was based on a true story. Bored teenager Sean Penn meets his prodigal father (Christopher Walken) for the first time in years. Though Penn is vaguely aware that his father is a criminal, he is nonetheless impressed by his dad's high life style and creature comforts. But Walken's veneer of charm is fragile indeed, and it becomes clear that he is willing to kill anyone& ...
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Genre:
Crime,
Crime Thriller,
Family Drama.
Director:
Sidney Lumet.
Actors:
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Ethan Hawke,
Marisa Tomei,
Albert Finney,
Michael Shannon,
Brian F. O'Byrne,
Amy Ryan,
Rosemary Harris,
Aleksa Palladino,
Leo Cimino,
Arija Bareikis,
Lee Wilkof,
Sarah Livingston,
Blaine Horton,
Damon Gupton,
Adrian Martinez,
Patrick G. Burns,
Alice Spivak,
Natalie Gold,
Keith Davis,
Mateo Gomez,
Myra Lucretia-Taylor,
Chris Chalk,
Sakina Jaffrey,
John Knox,
James Lally,
Jordan Gelber,
Megan Byrne,
Marcia Jean Kurtz,
Guy A. Fortt,
Meredith Patterson,
Tom Zolandz,
Paul Butler,
Anita Sklar,
Josh Mowery,
Diane Bradley,
Richard K. Lublin,
Bob Coletti.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei star in director Sidney Lumet's thriller concerning two brothers who hatch a plan to rob their parent's jewelry store. When the job goes awry, the entire family is set on a collision course with tragedy. Andy (Hoffman) is an overextended broker in desperate need of some cash. His brother Hank (Hawke) isn't much better off, so whe ...
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Big Fish (2003)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Fantasy Comedy,
Family Drama.
Director:
Tim Burton.
Actors:
Ewan McGregor,
Albert Finney,
Billy Crudup,
Jessica Lange,
Alison Lohman,
Robert Guillaume,
Marion Cotillard,
Matthew McGrory,
David Denman,
Missi Pyle,
Loudon Wainwright III,
Ada Tai,
Arlene Tai,
Steve Buscemi,
Danny DeVito,
Edward Aldag,
Cathy Berry,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Jake Brake,
Jeff Campbell,
Brandon Carroll,
Miley Cyrus,
Karla Droege,
Metz Duites,
John Fugate,
Trevor Gagnon,
Zachary Gardner,
Zach Hanner,
R. Keith Harris,
Barry C. Harvard,
Sallie Hedrick,
Russell Hodgkinson,
Greg Hohn,
Howard Houston, Jr.,
Joseph Humphrey,
Savanna James,
Morgan Grace Jarrett,
Bonnie Johnson,
Bevin Kaye,
John Lowell,
George McArthur,
Charles McLawhorn,
Jayne Morgan,
Hailey Anne Nelson,
Joanne Pankow,
James DeForest Parker,
Jacob Radford,
David Ramsey,
Alan Rawlins,
Billy Redden,
Deep Roy,
Michael Garnet Stewart,
Grayson Stone,
Lawrence Sykkmon,
Frank Hoyt Taylor,
Tom Tom,
Darrell Vanterpool,
Karlos Walkes,
Daniel Wallace,
Perry Walston,
Vincent Ybiernas,
Don Young.
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Tim Burton directs the fantasy drama Big Fish, based on the book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Southern writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace. Billy Crudup plays William Bloom, a young man who never really knew his dying father, Edward (Albert Finney) outside of the tall tales he told about growing up, making his way, and meeting his mother (played as a young woman by Alison Lohman and in ...
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Biker Boyz (2003)
Genre:
Action,
Drama,
Family Drama,
Coming-of-Age,
Chase Movie.
Director:
Reggie Rock Bythewood.
Actors:
Laurence Fishburne,
Derek Luke,
Orlando Jones,
Djimon Hounsou,
Lisa Bonet,
Brendan Fehr,
Larenz Tate,
Kid Rock,
Rick Gonzalez,
Meagan Good,
Salli Richardson,
Vanessa Bell Calloway,
Dante Basco,
Tyson Beckford,
Melissa DeSousa,
Kadeem Hardison,
Eriq La Salle.
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Two generations of radical bikers face off in this rubber-burning action drama. Manuel "Smoke" Galloway (Laurence Fishburne) is the leader of the Black Knights, an underground motorcycle club. Smoke, like most of his fellow Knights, is a successful white collar worker who can afford fancy leathers and top quality bikes, and Smoke has earned a reputation as the "King of Cali," w ...
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Brassed Off meets My Name Is Joe in this gritty coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor English coal miner who dreams of being a ballet dancer. The film is set during a 1984 miners' strike in Durham county, where angry clashes between picketers and cops in riot gear are nearly daily occurrences. Among the most vociferous protestors are Tony (Jamie Driven) and his dad (Gary Lewis), who nags ...
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A young man struggles to grow up with principles as his family begins to self-destruct around him in this coming of age drama. Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a boy in his middle-teens growing up in an Irish-Catholic family in Boston. While Cole has dreams of playing major league baseball some day, his parents Desmond (Brendan Gleeson) and Margaret (Melissa Leo) are blind to his ambitions, and hi ...
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Mental illness stretches a loving family to the breaking point in this independent drama. Chris Marino (Devon Gearhart) is a ten-year-old boy growing up in a small oceanside community in Florida. Chris's father John (Joe Pantoliano) is a construction worker who is struggling to hold the family together under difficult circumstances — his wife and Chris' mother, Mary (Marcia Gay Harden), ...
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City by the Sea (2002)
Genre:
Drama,
Crime,
Family Drama,
Police Drama.
Director:
Michael Caton-Jones.
Actors:
Robert De Niro,
Frances McDormand,
James Franco,
Eliza Dushku,
William Forsythe,
George Dzundza,
Patti LuPone,
Anson Mount,
John Doman,
Brian Tarantina,
Jay M. Boryea,
Leo Burmeister,
Dominick Angelo Cangro,
Pasquale Enrico Cangro,
Leslie Cohen,
Matthew Cowles,
Michelle Daimer,
Drena De Niro,
Michael Dellafemina,
Gregg Edelman,
Linda Emond,
Cyrus Farmer,
Teresa Kelsey,
Joanne Lamstein,
Mark LaMura,
Jill Marie Lawrence,
Stephi Lineburg,
Jim Marcus,
Michael P. Moran,
Orlando Pabjoy,
Nestor Serrano,
Jason Winther,
Teresa Woods.
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A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a drama based on a true story. Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past; four decades earlier, Vincent's father Angelo killed a young chi ...
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Clean (2004)
Genre:
Drama,
Family Drama,
Addiction Drama.
Director:
Olivier Assayas.
Actors:
Maggie Cheung,
Nick Nolte,
Béatrice Dalle,
Jeanne Balibar,
Don McKellar,
Martha Henry,
James Johnston,
James Dennis,
Laetitia Spigarelli,
Tricky,
Liz Densmore,
David Roback,
Emily Haines,
Ian Brown,
Remi Martin,
Laura Smet.
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A woman throws herself into a last-ditch struggle to conquer her demons in this gritty drama from director Olivier Assayas. Lee Hauser (James Johnston) is a faded rock star who lives with his wife, Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung), the former host of a European music video show, in a small town in Western Canada. Both Lee and Emily have been battling drug addiction for years, and when Lee finally dies ...
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The warm-hearted drama Country Remedy concerns an ambitious doctor who must leave the familiar environs of the city in order to tend to a clinic in a rural North Carolina town. While there, he learns that he has been concentrating on the wrong elements in his life.
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Dear Frankie (2004)
Genre:
Drama,
Coming-of-Age,
Family Drama.
Director:
Shona Auerbach.
Actors:
Emily Mortimer,
Jack McElhone,
Gerard Butler,
Sharon Small,
Mary Riggans,
Jayd Johnson,
Sean Browne,
Anne Marie Timoney,
Cal Macaninch,
Anna Hepburn,
John Kazek,
Kate Murphy.
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Directed by Shona Auerbach, Dear Frankie revolves around nine-year-old Frankie (Jack McElhone) and his mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer). The mother and son duo have been on the run for as long as Frankie, who has been deaf for years, can remember. In an effort to protect Frankie from the truth — that a psychotic father, whose physical abuse caused his hearing loss, is at the root of their ...
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Death Of A Salesman (1951)
Genre:
Drama,
Psychological Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Laslo Benedek.
Actors:
Fredric March,
Mildred Dunnock,
Kevin McCarthy,
Cameron Mitchell,
Howard I. Smith,
Royal Beal,
Don Keefer,
Jesse White,
Claire Carleton,
David Alpert,
Elisabeth Fraser,
Patricia Walker,
Beverly Aadland,
Jeanne Bates,
Gail Bonney,
Paul Bryar,
Wanda Perry.
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Desire under the Elms (1958)
Genre:
Drama,
Melodrama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Delbert Mann.
Actors:
Sophia Loren,
Anthony Perkins,
Burl Ives,
Frank Overton,
Pernell Roberts,
Rebecca Welles,
Jean Willes,
Anne Seymour,
Roy Fant,
Eugene O'Neill.
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Director Delbert Mann and screenwriter Irwin Shaw adapt Eugene O'Neill's 20th-century version of a Greek tragedy to the screen with a bit more discretion than need be. The story takes place in the New England of the 1840s. Emotionally cool but passionately hot farmer Burl Ives the smoldering Sophia Loren as his third wife. Anthony Perkins arrives to ignite this powder keg of pent-up lust, with Per ...
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Director Satyajit Ray adapted his script for Devi from the collected works of Indian authors Prabhatkumar Mukherjee and Rabinranath Tagore. The teen-aged title character Doyamoyee, played by Sharmila Tagore, may not be a "goddess" at all, but try telling that to Kalikinkar Roy (Chhabi Biswas), her wealthy and influential father. He places Doyamoyee on an outside pillar for all to see; th ...
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Elizabethtown (2005)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Romantic Comedy,
Reunion Films,
Family Drama.
Director:
Cameron Crowe.
Actors:
Orlando Bloom,
Kirsten Dunst,
Susan Sarandon,
Judy Greer,
Jessica Biel,
Alec Baldwin,
Paul Schneider,
Paula Deen,
Loudon Wainwright III,
Bruce McGill,
Emily Rutherfurd,
Gailard Sartain,
Allison Munn,
Ted Manson.
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A young man in need of a fresh start gets one under highly unexpected circumstances in this emotionally resonant comedy drama from writer and director Cameron Crowe. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is considered the big success story in his family, having moved away from the small Kentucky town where he was born to California, where he works as a designer for Mercury, the nation's biggest athletic sho ...
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Eve of Understanding (2006)
Genre:
Drama,
Road Movie,
Family Drama.
Director:
Alyson Shelton.
Actors:
Rebecca Lowman,
Susan M. Roberts,
Jennifer Harlow,
Mark Reeb,
Tim Wrobel,
Henry Kana,
Tom Procida,
Kit Gwin,
Daniel Magill,
Cynthia Brown,
Bellamy Young,
John Gremillion,
Shaeri Richards.
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Rebecca Lowman, Susan Roberts, and Jennifer Harlow star in this tender family drama about the black sheep daughter who thought she meant nothing, only to discover her true value while carrying out a curious last wish from her late mother. Donna (Lowman) was never the favorite child, and she knew that. Her sister Lisa was the good seed in the eyes of their mother Eve, a painful truth that was under ...
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Road Movie,
Family Drama.
Director:
Liev Schreiber.
Actors:
Elijah Wood,
Eugene Hutz,
Boris Leskin,
Eliás Bauer,
Oleksandr Choroshko,
Robert Chytil,
Ljubomir Dezera,
Jan Filipensky,
Jonathan Safran Foer,
Zuzana Hodkova,
Oleksandr Houtz,
Jana Hrabetová,
Jaroslav Jurichkanc,
Sergej Kapitan,
Ludmila Kartouská,
Gil Kazimirov,
Jurij Kokyrc,
Lukás Král,
Igor Latta,
Laryssa Lauret,
Jurij Lemeshev,
Eugenin Marandic,
Sandra Mikki,
Mouse on Mars,
Pamela Racine,
Sergej Rjabcev,
Stepán Samudovský,
Igor Savivskij,
Bert Schneider,
Vera Sindelárová,
Jaroslava Sochová,
Orest Tkachyk,
Tereza Veselková.
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A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he's never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family, and he has become obsessed with a woman he's never met. The woman saved the life of his grandfather during World War II, when the Ukra ...
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Award-winning Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) directs the intimate \drama Father and Son (Otets I Syn), a companion piece to his 1996 film Mother and Son. Following the death of his wife, a handsome father (Andrej Shetinin) shares an apartment with his son (Alexei Neimyshev). The son goes to military school to train to be a soldier, while the father remembers his own history as a ...
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Fly Away Home (1996)
Genre:
Children's/Family,
Drama,
Family-Oriented Adventure,
Family Drama,
Animal Picture,
Coming-of-Age.
Director:
Carroll Ballard.
Actors:
Jeff Daniels,
Anna Paquin,
Dana Delany,
Terry Kinney,
Holter Ford Graham,
Jeremy Ratchford.
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Inspired by a true story, Fly Away Home is a family drama about Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), a 13-year-old girl who, after the tragic death of her mother, is sent to live with her father Thomas (Jeff Daniels), a sculptor. Amy misses her mother and has never enjoyed a very warm relationship with her father, so the first few months in her new home are very difficult for her. However, one day Amy finds a ...
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Four Brothers (2005)
Genre:
Action,
Drama,
Crime Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
John Singleton.
Actors:
Mark Wahlberg,
Tyrese Gibson,
André Benjamin,
Garrett Hedlund,
Terrence Howard,
Josh Charles,
Sofía Vergara,
Fionnula Flanagan,
Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Taraji P. Henson,
Barry "Shabaka" Henley,
Jernard Burks,
Kenneth Welsh.
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Four men come together to find out how and why the woman who raised them was killed in this hard-edged urban drama from director John Singleton. Short-tempered Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), struggling musician Jack (Garrett Hedlund), streetwise Angel (Tyrese Gibson), and hard-working Jeremiah (Andre Benjamin) are four guys who don't appear to have much in common, in terms of either race or temperament. H ...
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Frequency (2000)
Genre:
Thriller,
Fantasy,
Family Drama.
Director:
Gregory Hoblit.
Actors:
Dennis Quaid,
James Caviezel,
Andre Braugher,
Elizabeth Mitchell,
Noah Emmerich,
Shawn Doyle,
Jordan Bridges,
Melissa Errico,
Daniel Henson.
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Known more for his dark, psychological crime thrillers Primal Fear (1996) and Fallen (1998), director Gregory Hoblit surprisingly created this Frank Capra-meets-Rod Serling-style fantasy that mixes several genres of storytelling into a likable stew. James Caviezel stars as John Sullivan, a New York police detective who has never recovered from the death of his father Frank (Dennis Quaid), a firefi ...
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Georgia Rule (2007)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Family Drama,
Melodrama.
Director:
Garry Marshall.
Actors:
Jane Fonda,
Lindsay Lohan,
Felicity Huffman,
Dermot Mulroney,
Cary Elwes,
Garrett Hedlund,
Hector Elizondo,
Zachary Gordon,
Dylan McLaughlin.
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Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan star in director Garry Marshall's tale of a rebellious young woman who is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother when her frustrated mother fails to find a means of curbing her unruly behavior. Rachel (Lohan) is an out-of-control teen whose reckless drinking, foul mouth, and hysterical fits have become a constant source of embarrassment for he ...
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Following up his critically acclaimed third film, 2001's The Sleepy Time Gal, filmmaker Christopher Munch helmed this dramedy about a pair of brothers who embark on a camping trip together. Harry (Bryce Johnson) is the eldest of the two, a 23-year-old former teen idol who has stopped off for the long-promised expedition while en route to a gig in Japan. Max (Cole Williams) is Harry's 16-year-old y ...
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Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Genre:
Drama,
Biography [feature],
Family Drama,
Medical Drama.
Director:
Anand Tucker.
Actors:
Emily Watson,
Rachel Griffiths,
James Frain,
David Morrissey,
Charles Dance,
Celia Imrie,
Rupert Penry-Jones,
Bill Paterson,
Auriol Evans,
Keeley Flanders,
Nyree Dawn Porter,
Vernon Dobtcheff.
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Perhaps inspired by the success of biopics like Shine and Amadeus, this film based on a true story — and a book (entitled A Genius in the Family) — also focuses on the destructive forces of being a musical genius. Hilary and Jacqueline du Pré are gifted sisters who grow up in England in the 1950s and compete for musical accolades and love. Hilary (Rachel Griffiths) is a talente ...
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Home from the Hill (1960)
Genre:
Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Vincente Minnelli.
Actors:
Robert Mitchum,
Eleanor Parker,
George Peppard,
George Hamilton,
Everett Sloane,
Luana Patten,
Anne Seymour,
Constance Ford,
Ken Renard,
Ray Teal,
Charlie Briggs,
Tom Gilson,
Hilda Haynes,
Burt Mustin,
Luana Parker,
Denver Pyle,
Stuart Randall,
Dan Sheridan,
Orville Sherman,
Dub Taylor,
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.
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William Humphrey's novel Home From the Hill is compressed into 150 minutes for this MGM all-starrer. Robert Mitchum plays Capt. Wade Hunnicutt, a Texas millionaire, married to Hannah (Eleanor Parker). The Hunnicutts have two children of approximately the same age: Wade's biological son, Theron (George Hamilton in one of his earliest film roles), and his illegitimate son, Rafe (George Peppard). As ...
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Genre:
Drama,
Family Drama,
Rural Drama,
Coming-of-Age,
Childhood Drama.
Director:
John Ford.
Actors:
Walter Pidgeon,
Maureen O'Hara,
Donald Crisp,
Roddy McDowall,
Barry Fitzgerald,
Anna Lee,
John Loder,
Sara Allgood,
Patric Knowles,
The Welsh Singers,
Morton Lowry,
Arthur Shields,
Frederic Worlock,
Richard Fraser,
Evan S. Evans,
James Monks,
Rhys Williams,
Clifford Severn,
Lionel Pape,
Ethel Griffies,
Dennis Hoey,
Marten Lamont,
Eve March,
Tudor Williams,
Ruth Clifford,
Minta Durfee,
Herbert Evans,
Mary Field,
Pauline Garon,
Mary Gordon,
Gibson Gowland,
Ben Hall,
Louis Jean Heydt,
Tiny Jones,
J.M. Kerrigan,
Mae Marsh,
Una O'Connor,
Irving Pichel,
Ann E. Todd.
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Imagining Argentina (2003)
Genre:
Drama,
Political Drama,
Romantic Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Christopher Hampton.
Actors:
Antonio Banderas,
Emma Thompson,
Rubén Blades,
Maria Canals,
Leticia Dolera,
Kuno Becker,
John Wood,
Claire Bloom,
Anton Lesser.
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Accomplished British screenwriter Christopher Hampton directs the political drama Imagining Argentina, based on the novel by Lawrence Thornton. Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda (Antonio Banderas) and his wife Cecilia (Emma Thompson). Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary que ...
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In America (2002)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Childhood Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Jim Sheridan.
Actors:
Samantha Morton,
Paddy Considine,
Sarah Bolger,
Emma Bolger,
Djimon Hounsou,
Des Bishop,
Guy Carleton,
Randall Carlton,
Ciaran Cronin,
Nick Dunning,
Bob Gallico,
Molly Glynn,
Elaine Grollman,
Juan Hernandez,
Nye Heron,
Sarah James,
Neal Jones,
Jason Killalee,
Kathleen King,
Gabriela Quintero Lopez,
Adrian Martinez,
Rene Millan,
Merrina Millsapp,
Tom Murphy,
Chary O'Dea,
Jer O'Leary,
Bernadette Quigley,
Regina Roe,
Jason Salkey,
Rodrigo Pineda Sanchez,
Eilish Scanlon,
Jennifer Seifert,
Michael Sean Tighe,
David Wike,
Frank Wood.
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After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his lens upon his own family's experiences immigrating to the United States in the aptly titled In America. The loosely autobiographical script centers on Johnny (Paddy Considine), a young actor sneaking his wife, Sarah (Samantha Morton), and daughters, C ...
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In My Father's Den (2005), a universally acclaimed New Zealand feature, swept over 15 international honors and virtually owned the 2005 New Zealand Film Awards. This intelligently crafted, penetrating drama travels in the footsteps of such masterpieces as The Myth of Fingerprints, In the Bedroom, and The Son's Room by detailing an indigenous, scarred family's attempt to heal from age-old wounds. T ...
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Interiors (1978)
Genre:
Drama,
Family Drama,
Psychological Drama.
Director:
Woody Allen.
Actors:
Kristin Griffith,
Mary Beth Hurt,
Richard Jordan,
Diane Keaton,
E.G. Marshall,
Geraldine Page,
Nancy Collins,
Kerry Duffy,
Henderson Forsythe,
Penny Gaston,
Missy Hope,
Roger Morden,
Sam Waterston,
Maureen Stapleton.
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Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, and Mary Beth Hurt play Renata, Flyn, and Joey, the grown daughters of wealthy Arthur (E.G. Marshall) and his emotionally disturbed wife, Eve (Geraldine Page). When Arthur leaves Eve, her three daughters rally around her. As it turns out, none of the daughters are ideally suited to provide an "anchor" for their distracted mother, but all four women are str ...
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This comedy drama focuses on the trials and tribulations that a family goes through, always reconnecting over Sunday dinner. As a mother and father observe the sometimes difficult events of their grown children's lives, they have to pick when and where to become involved. From Alex, who opened a failed restaurant with her husband Sam, to Robert Jr. who's just welcomed a new baby into the world, th ...
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Phil Morrison, who collaborated with screenwriter Angus MacLachlan for his acclaimed 1990 short, Tater Tomater, joins forces with MacLachlan again for his feature-film debut, Junebug. Junebug takes place in rural North Carolina. Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a sophisticated Chicagoan who owns a gallery devoted to "outsider art," goes south in an effort to woo an eccentric painter (Frank Ho ...
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Based on a true story, much of this somber drama centers on Rafael, a kindly but emotionally-distant butcher who has avoided people after accidentally castrating himself while cutting meat several years before. He has since considered himself unmanned and therefore undesirable to women. One day he sees a young man beating up his lover and can't help but intervene. Taking pity on the girl, he takes ...
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Ladder 49 (2004)
Genre:
Drama,
Melodrama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Jay W. Russell.
Actors:
Joaquin Phoenix,
John Travolta,
Jacinda Barrett,
Robert Patrick,
Morris Chestnut,
Billy Burke,
Balthazar Getty,
Tim Guinee,
Spencer Berglund,
Kevin Chapman,
Kevin Daniels,
Brooke Hamlin,
Jay Hernandez,
Robert Logan Lewis.
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An everyday hero recalls his life as he's forced to look death in the eye in this adventure drama. Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) is a young firefighter who is a member of Ladder Company 49, led by Capt. Kennedy (John Travolta), a tough but compassionate man who looks upon his fellow firefighters as a family. While battling a blaze, Morrison finds himself trapped inside a burning building, and as ...
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Legends of the Fall (1994)
Genre:
Drama,
Romantic Epic,
Family Drama,
Romantic Drama,
Period Film.
Director:
Edward Zwick.
Actors:
Brad Pitt,
Anthony Hopkins,
Aidan Quinn,
Henry Thomas,
Karina Lombard,
Julia Ormond,
Gordon Tootoosis,
Tantoo Cardinal,
Paul Desmond,
Stuart Aikins,
Charles Andre,
Bart the Bear,
Nigel Bennett,
Mary Colquhoun,
Bill Croft,
Bill Dow,
Ray Godshall, Jr.,
David Kaye,
Marc Levy,
Weston McMillan,
John Novak,
Christina Pickles,
Kenneth Welsh,
Robert Wisden.
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The sweeping, melodramatic saga of three brothers, their powerful father, and a beautiful woman, the popular period drama Legends of the Fall presents a romanticized view of rugged masculinity against lush Montana scenery. Based on a novel by Jim Harrison, the film covers decades in the lives of Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt), and Samuel (Henry Thomas) Ludlow, the sons of retired milita ...
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Life as a House (2001)
Genre:
Drama,
Family Drama,
Medical Drama.
Director:
Irwin Winkler.
Actors:
Kevin Kline,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Hayden Christensen,
Jena Malone,
Mary Steenburgen,
Mike Weinberg,
Scotty Leavenworth,
Ian Somerhalder,
Jamey Sheridan.
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Kevin Kline stars as George, a down-on-his-luck architect in this tearjerker from Irwin Winkler (At First Sight, Guilty By Suspicion). A disdainful local character who draws disapproval from the community, particularly his neighbor played by Mary Steenburgen, George sets out to change his life after suddenly losing his longtime job and discovering he's terminally ill (he has cancer). Attempting to ...
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Little Man Tate (1991)
Genre:
Drama,
Childhood Drama,
Family Drama.
Director:
Jodie Foster.
Actors:
Jodie Foster,
Adam Hann-Byrd,
Dianne Wiest,
Harry Connick, Jr.,
David Hyde Pierce,
Debi Mazar,
P.J. Ochlan,
George Plimpton,
Alexandra Auder,
Bob Balaban,
John Bell,
Ishe Costa,
Richard Fredette,
Elizabeth Frietsch,
Gordon Greene,
Richard Hanson,
George Kaufman,
Michael Keavey,
Carolyn Lawrence,
Alex Lee,
Nathan Lee,
Mark Lienhart,
Michael Mantell,
Ellen McElduff,
Adam Midkiff,
Josh Mostel,
Chucky Ocampo,
Sheadrick Richards,
Michael Shulman,
Lauren Ashley Stacey,
Erica Staton,
Jennifer Trier,
Danitra Vance,
Celia Weston,
Barry Williams,
Sam Womelsdorf,
Mar Ya Zuke.
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Jodie Foster made her directorial debut (with a script by Scott Frank) in this tale of a child prodigy's search for social acceptance. Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd) is a precocious fourth grader who has no problem with the most complex mathematical problems or in banging out a Rachmaninoff concerto on the piano, but is totally inept at playing baseball or dealing with children his own age. His mother ...
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Ma Vie en Rose (1997)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Family Drama,
Domestic Comedy,
Childhood Drama,
Gay & Lesbian Films.
Director:
Alain Berliner.
Actors:
Michèle Laroque,
Jean-Philippe Ecoffey,
Hélène Vincent,
Georges Du Fresne,
Baehr,
Laurence Bibot,
Marie Buñuel,
Jean-François Gallotte,
Daniel Hanssens,
Julien Riviere.
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Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, but one child isn't so sure in this Belgian comedy drama. 7-year-old Ludovic (Georges DuFresne) is happy, healthy, and good-natured, but there's a bit of a problem — he has decided that he's a girl. While his parents Hanna (Michele Laroque) and Pierre (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) try to understand, Ludovic stubbornly refuses to listen to reason from ...
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre:
Comedy Drama,
Tragi-comedy,
Family Drama,
Ensemble Film.
Director:
Noah Baumbach.
Actors:
Nicole Kidman,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Jack Black,
John Turturro,
Ciarán Hinds,
Zane Pais,
Flora Cross,
Hallet Feiffer.
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Margot at the Wedding, writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, stars Nicole Kidman as Margot, a woman who travels with her son to the wedding of her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The relationship between the two siblings has never been harmonious, a situation that is exacerbated when Margot discovers she cares very little for her sister's fiancé ( ...
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