Movies: Dysfunctional family

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

A girl accompanies his older brother on a night of drug dealing....

Grace, Daniel and Eamon, their hyperactive son, spoiled by his mother, envied by his father, go on vacation to an Irish coastal town for a few days, without money but plenty of hidden feelings inside them that they are unable to express....

Jorge, a biology teacher, lost his wife 5 years ago, and has not been able to overcome his grief. His children consider their grandfather Roberto as their main father figure. Everything changes when the latter is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, a...

Two brothers from a dysfunctional family chase their respective dreams while engaging in other bizarre antics. One brother dreams of becoming a manga artist and the other wants to be a professional baseball player....

Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years v...

Loosely based on 1957's "Our Sister Hedy" and 1961's "The Greatest Civil War on Earth", this romantic comedy follows the Wong household, where the father acts as the glue that holds everyone together while Mambo, the protagonist and third daughter, t...

A documentary film about singing and a young man in search of himself and his voice....

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....

In a large house in Salvador lives a family: Hercules, Julia, two of the couple's nephews, Hercules' father-in-law, and two maids. Hercules is a farmer who is in a professional and marital crisis. The mystical figure of Calunga mysteriously appears i...

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who will do the impossible to honor him in that short stay. At that time, dramatic turns and touches of h...

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....

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....

The film examines the painful relationship between fathers and sons through the eyes of one family. Four generations of men are featured in the film. Father to Son deals with the conflict between generations and their subjective memories, and the wa...

A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest personalities....

Holidays should be a time of joy, love and celebration, but for many it’s a time of loneliness. We made this film for those who feel a sense of sadness during this season and to highlight the importance of being extra kind to your loved ones....

Lucas is a withdrawn young man with a deep desire to travel. However, he carries the responsibility of supporting his dysfunctional family in his consciousness. Enduring the rejection he feels for his unbridled, but outstanding younger brother and hi...

Môj pes Killer is a one-day drama portraying eighteen-year-old Marek living near the Slovak-Moravian border with his dad and his racist friends. However, Marek's best true friend is his dog. His life is shaken up when he discovers the secret of his l...

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...

Shot in eleven days in the countryside of Southern Belgium, Gerda 85 is the first feature-length movie made by Patricia Gélise and Nicolas Deschuyteneer. Inspired by their own lives, they draw a portrait of a young girl in the mid-1980s. This low-b...