Around the Bend

A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.

Greedy

1994

English

6.3

♡ 32

33%

Jonathan Lynn Director

Kevin McCarthy as Bartlett

Jere Burns as Glen

Austin Pendleton as Hotel Clerk

Kirsten Dunst as Jolene

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

Speedy

1928

English

7.6

♡ 6

100%

Ted Wilde Director

Gus Leonard as Civil War Veteran

Jack Hill as Man

Walter Hiers as Soda Fountain Cook

Byron Douglas as W.S. Wilton

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.

Christmas with Tucker

2013

English

6.7

♡ 2

53%

Larry A. McLean Director

Barbara Gordon as Cora McCray

Derek McGrath as Hank Fisher

Josie Bissett as Jill Ron Lea

Ron Lea as Thorne

While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas farm. George misses his mom, Jill, who has moved to Minnesota to deal with her grief, but there is the promise of their reunion at Christmas. George feels needed on the farm as he helps his grateful grandfather Bo with daily chores and comforts his grandmother Cora. He has also made friends with Mary Ann and became attached to Tucker, the smart and friendly dog the McCrays take in when his troubled owner Frank Thorne lands in jail.

Racing Hearts

2014

English

6.1

♡ 15

Dominique Deruddere Director

Jamie Dornan as Colin

Numan Acar as Karadeniz

Sharon Maughan as Mother Colin

Ali Suliman as Sheikh

Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.

Journey

1995

English

6.4

♡ 1

Drama

grandfather

grandparents

Tom McLoughlin Director

Eliza Dushku as Cat

Jason Dohring as Cooper McDougall

Frances Conroy as Fiona

Thomas Kopache as Jed

Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.

Misty

1961

English

6.5

63%

James B. Clark Director

Burt Mustin as Cowboy on horseback

Anne Seymour as Grandma Beebe

Arthur O'Connell as Grandpa Beebe

David Ladd as Paul Beebe

Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. They soon realize they will get more than they bargained for when the Phantom has a surprise for everyone: a foal named Misty.

Deadly Games

1989

French

6.4

♡ 15

René Manzor Director

Brigitte Fossey as Julie

Marion Bureau as La petite fille

Canaillou as Le chien J.R.

Patrick Floersheim as Le Père Noël / Santa Claus

Thomas de Frémont, a precocious child obsessed with action films, sets himself up for a terrifying Christmas Eve after he unwittingly makes contact with a deranged psychopath who claims he's Santa Claus.

Hard Rock Nightmare

1988

English

4.6

♡ 7

Dominick Brascia Director

Steven Baio as Cop

Robert D. Peverley as Sammy

Annie Mikan as Tina

Troy Donahue as Uncle Gary

A young boy named John is tormented by his grandfather concerning vampires and werewolves, until he believes his grandfather is actually a vampire. This of course, leads to John killing his grandfather with a stake. Fast-forward and John is now the lead singer of a rock band who can no longer practice in their garage so they're forced to a house in the middle of nowhere, left to John by his Grandmother. They soon begin to be picked off and Josh is convinced the stories his grandfather told him all those years ago may be true.

April and the Extraordinary World

2015

French

7.2

♡ 41

97%

Christian Desmares Director

Marion Cotillard as Avril

Susan Sarandon as Chimène

Mark Camacho as Paul

J.K. Simmons as Rodrigue

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

The War with Grandpa

2020

English

5.7

♡ 127

29%

Tim Hill Director

Jane Seymour as Diane

Robert De Niro as Ed

Christopher Walken as Jerry

Uma Thurman as Sally

Peter is thrilled that his Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his Grandpa, he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war.

Detachment

2011

English

7.7

♡ 82

59%

Tony Kaye Director

Lucy Liu as Dr. Doris Parker

Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes

James Caan as Mr. Charles Seaboldt

Bryan Cranston as Mr. Dearden

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Heidi

1937

English

♡ 14

100%

organ grinder's monkey

Allan Dwan Director

Jean Hersholt as Adolph Kramer / Grandfather

Arthur Treacher as Andrews

Mady Christians as Dete

Sidney Blackmer as Herr Sesemann

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

Father's Little Dividend

1951

English

6.5

♡ 5

100%

parent-in-law child-in-law relationship

pregnant daughter

Romance

Vincente Minnelli Director

Georgia Holt as Baby Shower Guest

Hayden Rorke as Dr. Andrew Nordell

Joan Bennett as Ellie Banks

Russ Tamblyn as Tommy Banks

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

V.C. Andrews' Dollanganger Saga Flowers in the Attic

2014

English

6.0

♡ 22

52%

Deborah Chow Director

Kiernan Shipka as Cathy

Heather Graham as Corrine

Ellen Burstyn as Grandmother

Andrew Kavadas as John

After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.

A Cowgirl's Story

2017

English

5.6

♡ 5

60%

Timothy Armstrong Director

Bailee Madison as Dusty Rhodes

Alicia Coppola as Lieutenant Helen Rhodes

Elise Robertson as Mrs. Cheryl Stocker

Maggie McClure as Singer

Dusty Rhodes is new at Jefferson High, and she sticks out like a... well, a cowgirl. Dusty is a real cowgirl from Texas. Her parents are in the U.S. Army: her mother a helicopter pilot and her father a Special Forces Army Ranger. At first, Dusty is an outcast, but eventually she makes friends with a group that includes Savanah, a girl whose father was killed while fighting in Iraq three years earlier. Even though Savanah is kind of Goth and Dusty is all cowgirl they have a special connection and they bond. Dusty gets the school to agree to an Equestrian Drill Team and she enlists her new city slicker friends to join the team. As Dusty and the team practice, Dusty deals with the fears that come with her mother fighting in Afghanistan.

Funeral Home

1980

English

5.1

♡ 8

William Fruet Director

Stephen E. Miller as Billy Hibbs

Bill Lake as Frank

Kate McDonald as Funeral Family

Barry Morse as Mr. Davis

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

Armageddon Time

2022

English

6.4

♡ 41

77%

grandparent grandchild relationship

ronald reagan

school friend

stealing

James Gray Director

Anne Hathaway as Esther Graff

Anthony Hopkins as Grandpa Aaron Rabinowitz

Jessica Chastain as Maryanne Trump

Andrew Polk as Mr. Turkeltaub

In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.

Hálfur Álfur

2020

Icelandic

7.5

♡ 1

Jón Bjarki Magnússon Director

Hulda Jónsdóttir as Self

Trausti Breiðfjörð Magnússon as Self

A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with his inner elf. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on the Icelandic coast for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he tells her he wants to change his name to Elf she warns him that the family will reject him. Now, as his one hundredth birthday nears and Trausti senses the hand of death upon him, he is searching for an elf’s coffin…