Dysfunctional Families
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    Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

    A Chinese empress (Gong Li) has an affair with her stepson, while her cruel husband (Chow Yun-Fat)...

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    American Beauty (1999)

    A man (Kevin Spacey) in midlife crisis and at odds with his wife (Annette Bening) begins working out...

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    A Serious Man (2009)

    The Gopkins, a Midwestern Jewish family in 1967, struggle with their afflictions.

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    Igby Goes Down (2002)

    A teen (Kieran Culkin) from a dysfunctional family runs away from a military academy to live with...

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    Charlie Bartlett (2008)

    An awkward teenager (Anton Yelchin) endears himself to the student body by becoming the...

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    Taxidermia (2009)

    Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an...

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    Movies

    Rachel Getting Married (2008)

    Long-simmering tensions bubble to the surface when a young woman (Anne Hathaway) who has been in and...

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    Garden State (2004)

    An emotionally numb actor (Zach Braff) finds a soulmate in a quirky young woman after he returns to...

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    Interiors (1978)

    A perfectionist (Geraldine Page) frustrates her daughters and drives out her husband (E.G....

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    The Killing of John Lennon (2008)

    Mark David Chapman (Jonas Ball) travels to New York in the fall of 1980 to kill musician John...

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    Surfwise (2008)

    Forsaking a traditional home life, Dorian ``Doc'' Paskowitz and his wife raise their large brood in...

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    Ordinary People (1980)

    A suburban Chicago couple (Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore) and their son (Timothy Hutton) are...

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    Movies

    A Christmas Tale (2008)

    Illness, grief and complicated relationships darken a family's yuletide reunion.

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    The Ice Storm (1997)

    Suburbanites (Kevin Kline, Joan Allen) in failing marriages seek fulfillment elsewhere, while their...

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    Secretary (2002)

    After checking out of a mental institution, a woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) works for an attorney (James...

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    Worlds Apart

    The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for...

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    In Her Shoes (2005)

    A sexy partyer (Cameron Diaz) clashes with her serious-minded sister (Toni Collette) and befriends a...

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    Movies

    Still Walking (2009)

    Ryota is the 40-year-old son of the Yokoyama family. He has recently married a widow with a...

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    Movies

    The Virgin Suicides (2000)

    Men reminisce about intriguing sisters, whose parents (James Woods, Kathleen Turner) quarantined...

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    Running with Scissors (2006)

    A man looks back on his unusual childhood, his mentally ill mother (Annette Bening) and her...

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    Movies

    The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

    An errant father (Gene Hackman) tries to reconcile with his eccentric and underachieving family...

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    Movies

    In a Dream (2009)

    The life and work of a renowned Philadelphia artist.

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    Crazy/Beautiful (2001)

    The troubled daughter (Kirsten Dunst) of a congressman (Bruce Davison) falls in love with an...

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    Movies

    Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

    Members (Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette) of a dysfunctional family set out on a road trip...

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    Movies

    Foxes (1980)

    A San Fernando Valley Girl (Jodie Foster) tries to keep her friends out of trouble and away from sex...

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    Movies

    Magnolia (1999)

    Coincidence, divine intervention and fate link several people (Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom...

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    Movies

    Fierce People (2007)

    A drug addict (Diane Lane) and her teenage son (Anton Yelchin) spend a fateful summer at a...

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    Movies

    Flirting With Disaster (1996)

    An adoption-agency psychologist (Tea Leoni) tempts a new father (Ben Stiller) while they and his...

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    Movies

    Secrets & Lies (1996)

    A black London optometrist meets her biological mother (Brenda Blethyn), a white factory worker, and...

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    Movies

    Red Roses and Petrol (2008)

    A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.

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    Movies

    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    A theater critic (Cary Grant) learns his two elderly aunts serve poisoned elderberry wine to lonely...

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    Thumbsucker (2005)

    A teenager (Lou Pucci) undergoes a personality change while trying to free himself of the need to...

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    Pieces of April (2003)

    Chaos reigns when a young woman (Katie Holmes) invites her estranged family to her apartment for the...

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    Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001)

    Rohan, the son of wealthy Yash and Nandini Raichand, returns to his parents' house outside New Delhi...

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    Beautiful Ohio

    An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.

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    Movies

    Spanking the Monkey (1994)

    A college student (Jeremy Davies) has to spend his summer playing nurse to his bossy bedridden...

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    Movies

    Cries and Whispers (1973)

    Two women (Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin) visit their dying spinster sister (Harriet Andersson) in her...

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    Movies

    Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

    In 1987, teacher Arnold Friedman and his son Jesse stand trial for sex crimes against minors.

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    Movies

    Little Girl Blue

    Thirteen-year-old Sandra isn't happy to be the new girl in town, but then she falls in love with...

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    Movies

    The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

    A New Englander (Beau Bridges) and his odd clan run a hotel in Vienna.

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    Movies

    The Squid and the Whale (2005)

    A teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) and his younger brother cope with the fallout from their parents' (Jeff...

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    Benny's Video

    A story about a boy called Benny, who watches violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig...

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    Movies

    Flowers in the Attic (1987)

    A widow's (Victoria Tennant) four children become prisoners of their grandmother (Louise Fletcher)...

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    Movies

    The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)

    Grown siblings spend an uneasy Thanksgiving weekend at their parents' home in Maine.

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    September (1987)

    Vermont neighbor Howard (Denholm Elliott) loves Lane (Mia Farrow) who loves Peter who loves...

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    Movies

    The Daytrippers (1997)

    Family members (Pat McNamara, Anne Meara) join a woman (Hope Davis) on an odyssey to confront her...

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    Movies

    Brave Story

    When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into...

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    Mari del Sud

    A dysfunctional family (Diego Abatantuono, Giulia Steigerwalt, Victoria Abril) goes into hiding...

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    Movies

    Home for the Holidays (1995)

    Fights and reconciliations mark a single mom's (Holly Hunter) Thanksgiving with her dysfunctional...

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    Movies

    The Father

    Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father...