Mi tío Jacinto

1956

Spanish

7.3

♡ 3

Action

childhood

Drama

matador (bullfighter)

poor man

poverty

uncle nephew relationship

Ladislao Vajda Director

Walter Chiari as Caballero elegante

Carlo Campanini as Caballero provinciano

Pedro Porcel as Cliente 1º

Paolo Stoppa as Restaurador

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon.

My Uncle

2016

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

beach

Comedy

uncle nephew relationship

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Shinobu Terajima as

Ryûhei Matsuda as

Erika Toda as

Yôko Maki as Eri

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.

The Misfortunates

2009

Dutch

7.3

♡ 2

68%

uncle nephew relationship

world record

Felix van Groeningen Director

Tom Audenaert as Deelnemer Wereldkampioenschap Drinken & ronde Van Frankrijk

Robbie Cleiren as Deurwaarder

Rick Wiessenhaan as Frietzak #2

Natali Broods as Rosie

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?

Ed and His Dead Mother

1993

English

6.0

♡ 9

50%

uncle nephew relationship

zsákbamama

Jonathan Wacks Director

John Glover as A.J. Pattle

Gary Farmer as Big Lar

Steve Buscemi as Ed Chilton

Eric Christmas as Mr. Abner

A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.

The Tender Bar

2021

English

6.7

♡ 19

51%

long island, new york

Romance

uncle nephew relationship

writer

George Clooney Director

Max Casella as Chief

Christopher Lloyd as Grandpa

Max Martini as The Voice / Johnny Michaels

Ben Affleck as Uncle Charlie

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.

My Uncle Antoine

1971

French

7.4

♡ 5

77%

uncle nephew relationship

Claude Jutra Director

Jean Dubost as Le contremaitre

Rene Salvatore Catta as Le cure

Benoît Marcoux as Le pére de Carmen

Dominique Joly as Maurice

Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.

Stress Positions

2024

English

5.0

♡ 5

73%

53%

brooklyn, new york city

uncle nephew relationship

Theda Hammel Director

Davidson Obennebo as Hamadou

John Roberts as Leo

Tarek Ziad as Tarek

John Early as Terry Goon

Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew — a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul — bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model.

Bunraku

2010

English

6.1

♡ 17

18%

uncle nephew relationship

Guy Moshe Director

Demi Moore as Alexandra

Ron Perlman as Nicola

Woody Harrelson as The Bartender

Josh Hartnett as The Drifter

In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.