family-tragedy
  • Things We Lost in the Fire picture
    Movies

    Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

    After her husband dies, a woman (Halle Berry) invites his drug-addicted friend (Benicio Del Toro) to...

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    Movies

    Punisher: War Zone (2008)

    After an encounter with the Punisher (Ray Stevenson) leaves him horribly disfigured, mob boss Billy...

  • The Big Country picture
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    The Big Country (1958)

    A former sea captain (Gregory Peck) goes West, woos women (Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker) and joins a...

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    Interiors (1978)

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

  • The Basketball Diaries picture
    Movies

    The Basketball Diaries (1995)

    Crime pays for the drug addiction of a high-school hoopster (Leonardo DiCaprio) and three teammates...

  • Ordinary People picture
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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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    Paparazzi (2004)

    A movie star (Cole Hauser) takes revenge on a group of photographers who continuously stalk his...

  • All or Nothing picture
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    All or Nothing (2002)

    A cabdriver (Timothy Spall), his wife (Lesley Manville), a cashier and other working-class Britons...

  • Kramer vs. Kramer picture
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    Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

    A New York adman (Dustin Hoffman) fights for custody of his son (Justin Henry) after his wife (Meryl...

  • Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? picture
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    Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

    A professor (Richard Burton) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor) drink and verbally assault each other...

  • On Golden Pond picture
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    On Golden Pond (1981)

    An old professor (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) make peace with their daughter (Jane...

  • The Grapes of Wrath picture
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    The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better...

  • Jungle Fever picture
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    Jungle Fever (1991)

    Trouble follows an architect's (Wesley Snipes) biracial affair with a woman (Annabella Sciorra) in...

  • The Dead picture
    Movies

    The Dead (1987)

    In 1904 a woman (Anjelica Huston) upsets her husband (Donal McCann) at a dinner party after telling...

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    Tribute (1980)

    A shallow Broadway press agent (Jack Lemmon) learns he is dying just as his son (Robby Benson) by...

  • Da picture
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    Da (1988)

    Autobiographical drama about playwright Hugh Leonard's relationship with his father.

  • East of Eden picture
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    East of Eden (1955)

    Rebellious Cal (James Dean) competes with his twin, Aron, for the love of his rigid father (Raymond...

  • Moonlight Mile picture
    Movies

    Moonlight Mile (2002)

    After the murder of his fiancee, a young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) bonds with her parents (Dustin...

  • The World According to Garp picture
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    The World According to Garp (1982)

    John Irving's novel about the son of an unmarried nurse whose career is overshadowed by his mother's...

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    Gracie (2007)

    After the death of her older brother, a teenager (Carly Schroeder) petitions her high school for the...

  • Five Easy Pieces picture
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    Five Easy Pieces (1970)

    A former concert pianist (Jack Nicholson) who works in an oil field takes his waitress girlfriend...

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    Running on Empty (1988)

    Two former '60s radicals (Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch) live underground with their sons, one of...

  • Places in the Heart picture
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    Places in the Heart (1984)

    A widowed mother (Sally Field) fights for her cotton farm with a laborer and a blind boarder (John...

  • Driving Miss Daisy picture
    Movies

    Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

    An Atlanta widow (Jessica Tandy) and her chauffeur (Morgan Freeman) reflect the changing times, from...

  • At Close Range picture
    Movies

    At Close Range (1986)

    A rural teen (Sean Penn) joins his father's (Christopher Walken) crime clan and winds up running for...

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    Autumn Sonata (1979)

    Following the death of her lover, a world-reknowned concert pianist returns to Sweden to visit the...

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    Far North (1988)

    An unmarried New Yorker (Jessica Lange) visits her Minnesota womenfolk and her father (Charles...

  • The Baby Maker picture
    Movies

    The Baby Maker (1970)

    A free-spirited woman agrees to be a surrogate mother for a wealthy California couple. The original...

  • The Prince of Pennsylvania picture
    Movies

    The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)

    A teenager (Keanu Reeves) kidnaps his coal-miner father (Fred Ward), hoping his mother (Bonnie...

  • I Never Sang For My Father picture
    Movies

    I Never Sang For My Father (1970)

    A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out...