Movies: Dysfunctional family

A nuclear family sits in front of the television. The phone rings....

Melvin and Lisa return in this highly anticipated sequel to the 2021 romantic comedy, which is rumoured to introduce Lisa's family....

The story of a boy made of trash, built by his creator Gordon Grott as a surrogate for his estranged son. When Scraps comes to life one day and sees what a perfect family looks like, he decides to try and bond with the only father figure he has....

The hardships of modern life for one of the families, unhappy in its own way and at the same time recognizable to others. A husband and wife are fighting and drinking, their eldest son lives on his parents-in-law's money, the middle daughter is a pro...

Rodolfo and Beatriz are the parents of teenagers Jessica and Juan. Together they form a perfect dysfunctional family. Rodolfo leaves for work every morning, but actually he’s unemployed. Beatriz, worrying that she is looking older, has a flirtatio...

An overbearing mother struggling to keep a daughter alive after a divorce from her ex-husband....

Interpersonal relationships in a dysfunctional family under the microscope of the camera....

Anna and Philip, separated for a year, arrive at a remote island to sort out their marriage and the future of their two children. Anna, firm in her logical decision to divorce, faces Philip, who hasn't thought things through and defensively tries to ...

Unable to deal with her mother's death, Samantha turns to her drawings for solace. She discovers she is able to bring her drawings to life and attempts to bring her mother back. In doing so, she finds out the truth behind her mother's death....

An exhausted and under-appreciated Dana Langley leads a funeral that doesn't seem to end....

A motherless young man tries to clear his name after he kills his abusive stepfather in defense of his sister....

At her young age, Juana has two great responsibilities: preventing her older sister from fleeing the house and passing on the secret of making bricks to her younger sister....

Marcy Meyers is down on her luck. Faced with piling bills, the remnants of a failed marriage, and now an imminent home foreclosure, she has nowhere to turn but to the hope of a miracle. That miracle she finds in Shoot the Moon, a national game show t...

During a dysfunctional family's week-long vacation “up north,” amidst the family’s chaos and historical conflicts under the Michigan heat, the youngest of the family, Cooper, finds solace in his estranged Aunt Trisha....

The story of a young man hopelessly in love with what turns out to be the wrong woman who betrays his trust in preference for her ex-boyfriend and child’s father....

On the shores of solipsism, Luis interrogates the impulses that led him into an affair with his married supervisor at work, to face the emotional absences driving his actions and the uncertainties of moving on....

Changed is a short dramedy about a gay couple that explores the significance of family while struggling to keep their own relationship alive....

After a tragic loss shatters her family, Mia battles grief and turmoil, forced to choose between escaping the past or succumbing to it....

Shaurya after being fed up with his environment, comes together with his crew to point out the elephant in the room. After suffering in a dysfunctional family for most of his life and realising its visceral impact on his mother (Madhu), he convinces ...

For two decades, Éva Janikovszky wrote her famous children's monologues, which have remained popular ever since. In some of her books, she always writes about the problems of her boy protagonist, which are related to a particular age. This is how the...