Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.

Like Father, Like Son

2013

Japanese

7.8

♡ 23

86%

eating with chopsticks

family relationships

father son relationship

lost child

parent child relationship

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Pierre Taki as (as Piêru Taki)

Machiko Ono as Midori Nonomiya

Jun Fubuki as Nobuko Nonomiya

Masaharu Fukuyama as Ryota Nonomiya

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

A Mother's Instinct

2015

English

4.8

♡ 4

31%

parent child relationship

Thriller

vigilante

Jason Bourque Director

Vincent Gale as Chris Betnner

Mike Dopud as Detective Coyle

Sharon Taylor as Detective Jenkins

Richard Harmon as Seth Durand

When a woman’s son goes missing and the prime suspect is released due to lack of evidence, she and her teenage daughter decide to play vigilante.

Evan Almighty

2007

English

5.4

♡ 94

24%

parent child relationship

rescue

support

Tom Shadyac Director

Brian Howe as Builder

Arden Myrin as Evan's Staffer

Morgan Freeman as God

Dean Norris as Officer Collins

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

Moonlight

2016

English

7.4

♡ 288

98%

parent child relationship

Barry Jenkins Director

Ashton Sanders as Chiron

Jharrel Jerome as Kevin

Naomie Harris as Paula

Janelle Monáe as Teresa

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Mary Poppins

1964

English

7.8

♡ 102

97%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

sibling relationship

Robert Stevenson Director

Sean McClory as Hound / Reporter #4

Kay E. Kuter as Man in Bank

Marjorie Bennett as Miss Lark - Old Woman in Park

Reta Shaw as The Domestic

Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.

The Curse of the Cat People

1944

English

6.7

♡ 16

88%

parent child relationship

wish

Robert Wise Director

Jane Randolph as Alice Reed

Edmund Glover as Card Playing Guest

Simone Simon as Ghost of Irena

Kent Smith as Oliver 'Ollie' Reed

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are

2007

Japanese

7.5

♡ 33

parent child relationship

post-apocalyptic future

remake

Sci-Fi

Joe Fria Director

Akira Ishida as Kaworu Nagisa

Greg Ayres as Kensuke Aida

Takehito Koyasu as Shigeru Aoba

Sayaka Ohara as (voice)

After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji’s objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion mecha units. A remake of the first six episodes of GAINAX’s famous 1996 anime series. The film was retitled “Evangelion: 1.01” for its DVD release and “Evangelion: 1.11” for a release with additional scenes.

The Shaggy Dog

2006

English

4.4

♡ 6

25%

husband wife relationship

parent child relationship

transformation

workaholic

Brian Robbins Director

Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Kozak

Jeanette Brox as Janey

Joshua Leonard as Justin Forrester

Rhea Seehorn as Lori

The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

20th Century Women

2016

English

7.3

♡ 91

88%

parent child relationship

punk rock

Mike Mills Director

Waleed Zuaiter as Charlie

Kirk Bovill as Dorothea's Dinner Guest

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund

Elle Fanning as Julie

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

Everything's Gonna Be Great

1998

Turkish

8.1

♡ 11

cheating

Comedy

Drama

husband wife relationship

infidelity

lie

parent child relationship

sibling relationship

Ömer Vargi Director

Cem Yilmaz as Altan Camli

Ceyda Düvenci as Ayla Camli

Bekir Çiçekdemir as Büfeci

Nurgül Yesilçay as Hemsire

When Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond.

Cloak & Dagger

1984

English

6.6

♡ 15

parent child relationship

Richard Franklin Director

Linden Chiles as Airport Security Chief

Eloy Casados as Alvarez

Henry Thomas as Davey Osborne

John McIntire as George MacCready

Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with his imaginary father-figure, Jack Flack - a substitute for his real father, who is struggling with the recent death of Davey's mother. However, fantasy becomes reality for Davey after he witnesses the murder of an FBI agent, who in his dying breath, gives Davey a mysterious video game cartridge called Cloak & Dagger, which in actuality contains top-secret government information. With the help of his younger friend Kim, the tech savvy Morris, and even a little help from his fictional secret agent mentor, Davey must stay one step ahead of pursuers as he tries to survive a real-life game of espionage in the streets of San Antonio, Texas.

Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956

English

7.5

♡ 17

86%

parent child relationship

Sport

Robert Wise Director

Everett Sloane as Irving Cohen

Len Lesser as Reporter at Sparring Session

Paul Newman as Rocky

Michael Dante as Shorty the Greek

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Marriage Story

2019

English

7.9

♡ 250

95%

husband wife relationship

infidelity

new york city

parent child relationship

Romance

Noah Baumbach Director

Wallace Shawn as

Bashir Salahuddin as Director

Ray Liotta as Jay

Scarlett Johansson as Nicole

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Kolya

1996

Czech

7.7

♡ 9

96%

parent child relationship

Jan Sverák Director

Emma Cerná as Doctor at Hospital

Libuse Safránková as Klára

Miroslav Táborský as Novotný

Jirí Sovák as Ruzicka

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

Into the Wild

2007

English

8.0

♡ 300

83%

89%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

parent child relationship

Romance

self-discovery

wilderness

Sean Penn Director

R.D. Call as Bull

Jena Malone as Carine McCandless / Additional Narrator

Zach Galifianakis as Kevin

Kristen Stewart as Tracy Tatro

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2004

English

7.2

♡ 76

57%

parent child relationship

Wes Anderson Director

Jeff Goldblum as Alistair Hennessey

Seymour Cassel as Esteban du Plantier

Cate Blanchett as Jane Winslett-Richardson

Willem Dafoe as Klaus Daimler

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

The Boy and the Beast

2015

Japanese

7.6

♡ 61

parent child relationship

portal

runaway

training

Mamoru Hosoda Director

Suzu Hirose as Kaede

Shun Oguri as (voice)

Hiroshi Iwasaki as (voice)

Mao Ichimichi as (voice) (as M A O)

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.