The billionaire is tired of the whims of his own children and decides to teach them a lesson. He announces to them that he has become bankrupt. Now spoiled teenagers will have to do what they have never done: go to work, learn to love and value life.

My So-Called Father

2014

Swedish

6.1

♡ 4

Drama

family relationships

father daughter conflict

memory loss

parent child relationship

Ulf Malmros Director

Sverrir Gudnason as Frank

Lars-Peter Larsson as Franks krogpolare

Hanna Björn as Hanna Berg

Michael Nyqvist as Martin Sandahl

Pregnant Malin have no where to go, when her boyfriend breaks up. As a last resort she seeks up her father Martin, even tho they never met. But then before Malin get to tell who she is. Martin gets a stroke and when he wake up he dont remember who he is.

John and the Hole

2021

English

5.2

♡ 16

60%

Pascual Sisto Director

Jennifer Ehle as Anna

Michael C. Hall as Brad

Charlie Shotwell as John

Taissa Farmiga as Laurie

While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.

The Efficiency Expert

1991

English

6.2

♡ 7

67%

Mark Joffe Director

Ben Mendelsohn as Carey

Anthony Hopkins as Errol Wallace

Russell Crowe as Kim Barry

Toni Collette as Wendy Robinson

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

Yang ngai gaw rak

2007

Thai

6.1

♡ 2

Torpong Tunkamhang Director

Jatuphon Chompoonich as

Sophia La as Ganda

Prinya Rhunprapan as Hia Lhee

Sineenart Photiwehn as Miao

The story of a Thai-Chinese couple Yong and Ngak who's been together for 7 years. Yong is a salesman while his wife Ngak is just nothing but boring and old. There're many times that Yong thinks of breaking up, but he swore to his grandfather that he will never leave Ngak or else his life will face bad luck. Later, there is a twist in his marriage life as Yong may has to break the word that he promised to his dead grandfather.

Me and My Gal

1932

English

6.6

♡ 3

59%

Raoul Walsh Director

Spencer Tracy as Danny Dolan

George Chandler as Eddie Collins

Joan Bennett as Helen Riley

Henry B. Walthall as Sgt. John Collins aka Sarge

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Japanese

8.0

♡ 10

95%

existential loneliness

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Masao Oda as Dousousei Watanabe

Eijirô Tôno as Sakuma - The 'Gourd'

Shinobu Asaji as Youko Sasaki, hisho

Teruo Yoshida as Yutaka Miura

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Fifteen and Pregnant

1998

English

5.6

♡ 8

63%

Action

adoption

based on a true story

Sam Pillsbury Director

David Andrews as Cal Spangler

Marlyn Mason as Grandma Spangler

Katee Sackhoff as Karen Gotatus

Kirsten Dunst as Tina Spangler

Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn her world apart, her pregnancy could re-unite her shattered family and help her find her true purpose in life.

Love the Coopers

2015

English

5.8

♡ 39

19%

Jessie Nelson Director

Timothée Chalamet as Charlie

Diane Keaton as Charlotte

Marisa Tomei as Emma

Amanda Seyfried as Ruby

When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.

Confetti Harvest

2014

Dutch

6.8

♡ 3

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab Director

Lieke van den Broek as Barkeeper

Beate Uma Haije as Cindy

Peter Barlage as Petra's Father

Tom van Kessel as Rogier

The young Katelijne grows up in a strict Protestant peasant family. As the only girl between six brothers, she is hardly involved in farm work and is excluded from daily conversations. Hereby she lets her imagination run free by surrendering to Biblical stories, gossip and even fairy tales, although she is not allowed to read them. During her brother's wedding, however, she overwhelms her family with literature, saying goodbye to her childhood.

Dunya & Desie

2008

Dutch

6.6

♡ 1

45%

amsterdam, netherlands

parent child relationship

road trip

Dana Nechushtan Director

Paula Kalenberg as Duits meisje 2

Maryam Hassouni as Dunya El-Beneni

Tygo Gernandt as Pim

Ilias Addab as Samir

Dunya and Desie are two 18 year old best friends from Amsterdam North. Dunya is Moroccan and Desie is Dutch. On Dunya's Birthday she is told that her marriage has been arranged with a distant cousin in Morocco. Dunya and her family will travel to Morocco to meet him. After Desie discovers that she is pregnant she joins Dunya in Morocco in a search for Desies father.

Still Walking

2008

Japanese

♡ 38

100%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Haruko Katô as You

You as Chinami Kataoka

Kazuya Takahashi as Nobuo Kataoka

Susumu Terajima as Sushi deliverer

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Christmas for a Dollar

2013

English

7.0

♡ 2

71%

father son relationship

horse

poor

John Lyde Director

Nancy Stafford as Mrs. Rathbone

Jacob Buster as Norman Kamp

Danielle Chuchran as Verna Kamp

Brian Krause as William Kamp

America is in the midst of the Great Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially since Mrs. Kamp’s untimely death nearly a year ago. The older children do their best to take care of the family, but it’s the younger children—Hopalong Cassidy fan Norman and straight-talking little Ruthie—who struggle most. Now, with their mother gone and their father overwhelmed by doctor bills from young Norman’s battle with polio, the Kamp siblings fully expect a Christmas without presents. But when William scrapes together a dollar in coins to use for Christmas gifts, everything begins to change.

Lou

2010

English

6.4

♡ 1

56%

Belinda Chayko Director

Damien Garvey as Colin

Jay Ryan as Cosmo

John Hurt as Doyle

Emily Barclay as Rhia

Rhia's relationship with her daughter Lou hits an all-time low when she lets her father-in-law, Doyle, who has Alzheimer's, move in. More problems arise when Doyle mistakes Lou for his late wife, Annie.

Chile '76

2022

Spanish

6.7

♡ 2

91%

Manuela Martelli Director

Nicolás Sepúlveda as Elías

Carmen Gloria Martínez as Estela

Ernesto Meléndez as Maestro Joven

Luis Cerda as Pedro

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

Young Hyacinth

2016

English

5.8

♡ 2

aspiration

Comedy

employer employee relationship

Sandy Johnson Director

Mark Addy as Daddy

Katherine Pearce as Daisy

Debra Stephenson as Dulcie

Tim Downie as Freddy

Set in the 1950s, this prequel to Keeping Up Appearances looks at the life, relationships, and aspirations of 18-year-old Hyacinth. Long before she becomes Mrs. Bucket (pronounced Bouquet), young Hyacinth is already dreaming of matching china and a bedroom in pastel shades. If only her family were more like the upper-class Cooper-Smiths in whose home Hyacinth works as a maid.

Stories We Tell

2012

English

7.5

♡ 8

94%

Sarah Polley Director

Thomas Hauff as Actor

Rebecca Jenkins as Diane Polley

Sarah Polley as Herself

Allie MacDonald as Joanna Polley

Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.

Banyu Biru

2005

Indonesian

6.6

♡ 2

Teddy Soeriaatmadja Director

Kukuh Adi Rizky as Banyu

Berliana Febryanti as Mirya

Ladya Cheryl as Mysterious fortunetelling girl

Didi Petet as Wahyu

Disillusioned with his life and career, a supermarket customer service employee sets out on a journey to locate his estranged father.

Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988

English

7.4

♡ 12

80%

Terence Davies Director

Pete Postlethwaite as Father

Andrew Schofield as Les

Lorraine Ashbourne as Maisie

Judith Barker as Rose's Family

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

Long Long Time Ago 2

2016

Chinese

6.8

♡ 1

Jack Neo Director

Benjamin Josiah Tan as Lim Ah Hee

Aileen Tan as Lim Zhao Di

Bharathi Rani as Rani

Cynthia Kuang as Shu Ting

Zhao Di takes over her family farm with the help of Ah Long after the 1969 floods. After the government started reclaiming land for development in 1977, licensed owners like Zhao Di are compensated but her brother accuses her of having an affair with Ah Long to get the money for himself. Meanwhile, Osman does not approve of his son playing in a rock band as he fears the negative influence, causing his son to run away from home. As for Ah Hee and Rani, they decide to get married but their traditional parents are against it.

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Spoiled Brats

My So-Called Father

John and the Hole

The Efficiency Expert

Yang ngai gaw rak

Me and My Gal

An Autumn Afternoon

Fifteen and Pregnant

Love the Coopers

Confetti Harvest

Dunya & Desie

Still Walking

Christmas for a Dollar

Lou

Chile '76

Young Hyacinth

Stories We Tell

Banyu Biru

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Long Long Time Ago 2