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Explore family relationships, tensions and bonds.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,980 films · Page 126.

Ride a Wild Pony (1975)

Set in a small Australian town during the interwar period, the film follows the battle between two children, Scott, a poor farm boy, and Josie, the handicapped daughter of a wealthy ranch owner, for ownership of a horse that both children love. Scott requires a horse to ride seven miles to school and his father buys an unbroken pony, which Scott names Taff. Josie yearns to ride again but, having been afflicted with polio two years before, must settle for using a cart and pony.

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Zwei Leben (2012)

Family Drama, drama film, thriller film

It is based on the novel Ice Ages, by German author . She was inspired by reports in the late 1980s of the discovery of the half-burned body of a young woman near Bergen, and there was speculation as to her identity. This was just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany.

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Broken Hill (2009)

musical film

Tommy, a gifted teenage composer, dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Unfortunately, a good band is hard to find in the middle of the Australian Outback—until an incident involving flying watermelons leads him to a group of talented prison inmates. He meets Kat, his love interest, as part of the story.

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School of Life (2005)

Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film

At Fallbrook Central School, the annual student-elected Teacher of the Year award ceremony is held. Every year for the last 43 years, Norman Warner, fondly called Stormin' Norman, has won the award. During the ceremony, he collapses and dies, saying "Take your shot" and "It takes less than death to kill a man", greatly confusing his son, Matt Warner.

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Gallavants (1984)

musical film

Gallavants are ants living in their own fairy-tale land, Ganteville. The little ones have to go to school in preparation of their adult life as working ants. However, one pupil, named Shando, thinks he doesn't need to take lessons and work hard, in order to find his destination in life.

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Safe Harbor (2009)

drama film

Doug and Robbie Smith are a happily married, childless couple about to retire and spend their days cruising around the world on their sailboat. But before they have the chance to leave, their good friend, Judge David Roberts, asks them to care for two teenage boys he sentenced to juvenile hall. The facility is currently full and the judge tells the couple that, instead of being sent to county jail, the boys can help them prepare their boat for sailing day.

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Nuovomondo (2006)

Drama, drama film, historical film

The first major segment of the film introduces the poor Mancuso family (headed by the widowed Salvatore), from Sicily, Italy, at the turn of the 20th century residing in a rural mountainous region, who decide to emigrate to the United States after receiving a sign from God in the form of American postcards depicting giant produce and chickens. Their dreams about the land of opportunity where giant vegetables are grown, people swim in milk, and coins fall from the sky propel their decision, which gives the viewer insight into the unrealistic expectations that many immigrants held about America. Salvatore takes his family consisting of his…

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Coming Home for Christmas (2013)

Christmas film, Family Drama, comedy drama, family film

The story begins showing two sisters, Kate and Melanie (played by real life sisters Carly and Britt McKillip), growing up as very different girls in an otherwise close family. Their relationship is finally severed by Kate walking out on Melanie's wedding day due to her objection to the man that Melanie is marrying, whom Kate believes doesn't really care about her sister. Five years later we see Kate jaded about family and romantic relationships but working her "dream job" as an editor at a publishing house.

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Kirot (2009)

Action, action film, drama film, thriller film

Galia is a Ukrainian sex slave working in Tel Aviv who attempts to escape with another woman. They are captured and beaten and she watches her friend stabbed to death. She demands to be released and a Russian mobster feels she is smart and strong enough to fill another role.

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Pride (2004)

Tragic Comedy Film, documentary film, drama film

Suki, her cowardly brother Linus, and their conceited cousin Fleck are all lion cubs. When two rogue lions, Dark and Harry or otherwise known as "The Wanderers", attack and while the lionesses help, they kill Fleck's mother Eve leaving him an orphan. Suki and Linus decide to go exploring and find out how the Wanderers got across the river.

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I'm Losing You (1998)

drama film

The film centers on the wealthy, dysfunctional Krohn family of Los Angeles. On the verge of his 60th birthday, patriarch and TV producer Perry Krohn is diagnosed with inoperable cancer and is told he has only months left to live. He delays telling his thirtysomething children, has-been actor Bertie and adopted daughter Rachel.

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Santa Baby 2 (2009)

Christmas film, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy television program, fantasy film

Santa finds himself in the midst of a late-in-life crisis. He has grown tired of the responsibilities of his job and is ready to pass on the reins to his business-minded daughter Mary, who feels torn between the family business and running her own high-stakes firm in New York City, along with balancing a relationship with the love of her life, Luke. The situation gets increasingly dire when Teri, an ambitious new arrival to the North Pole, sows dissension at the workshop in an effort to take over Christmas.

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Falling Sky (1998)

drama film

Emily and her alcoholic mother, Reese, have moved to Las Vegas for a fresh start and so Reese can pursue a singing career. Reese tells Emily that alcoholism runs in the family and she is at risk of having it too. Emily often finds herself in the maternal role, having to take care of her mother.

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All I Desire (1953)

Melodrama, drama film, romance film

In about 1910, Naomi Murdoch, who has not been back to see her husband or children in the small town of Riverdale, Wisconsin, since she abandoned them at the turn of the 20th century to become a stage actress, is struggling near the bottom of the bill in a traveling vaudeville show. One day, she receives a letter from her daughter Lily, inviting her to come home to attend Lily's acting debut in the high school senior play. A fellow vaudeville actress convinces Naomi to return to her family and pretend to be the successful international stage actress she told them she has become.

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Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)

Drama, drama film

The film stars Wendy Hughes and Robyn Nevin as two sisters who are locked in a custody battle over their young nephew, PS, played by Nicholas Gledhill. PS has been raised by his aunt Lila (Nevin) and her husband George since his mother died soon after his birth. When Lila's richer sister Vanessa (Hughes) returns from overseas, she seeks custody of PS, citing the opportunities she can give him.

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Dog Gone (2008)

children's film, comedy television program

When Owen (Luke Benward) and his distracted older sister, Lilly (Brittany Curran), are alone and their parents are away, Owen delivers the paper while being bullied by a school bully named Dexter and his gang (who harass Owen by throwing his bike, newspapers and pants off a bridge), and spends afternoons in a forest hideaway making inventions and spinning tall tales about a "Mad Man of the Mountain" in which he claims to be a scary man who used to work in a circus freak show but later moved to live in the mountains to be free. He encounters three thugs named Blackie (French Stewart), Bud (Kevin Farley) and Arty (Kelly Perine) who have a…

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Smitty (2012)

Family Drama, drama film, family film

Amanda leaves her son Ben with her estranged father Jack, a grumpy Iowa farmer, after he gets in trouble too many times in Chicago. Jack successfully straightens the boy out with good food, farm chores, and a dog; the dog's former owners could not afford to keep him, and Ben names him after Mr. Smith, a wise storekeeper who befriends him.

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Max Winslow and the House of Secrets (2019)

Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, family film, science fiction film, thriller film

The movie begins with a bunch of newscasters talking about the many accomplishments of genius Atticus Virtue before switching to high school student Max Winslow. Max lives with her mother and brother, her dad having left when she was five years old. Max is socially awkward and spends most of her time on computers and never connecting with people in real life.

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Icarus (2010)

Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, thriller film

Genn (Dolph Lundgren) is known by most in his life as a divorced father working for an investment company. Before this, for years, he had worked as a sleeper agent called Icarus in America before the Soviet Union collapsed. A mishap in Hong Kong blows Icarus' cover, past and present collide and he becomes a target.

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The Note (2007)

Drama, drama film, family film

Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder (Genie Francis) finds a note addressed simply to 'T', washed up on shore. It appears to be from the victim of a recent plane crash, and carries a message of hope and forgiveness from a father to his child. MacGruder's readership is down on her column (called "Heart Healer"), and the paper is going to dump it unless she starts to write from the heart.

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Mr. Troop Mom (2009)

Komödie, comedy film

Eddie Serrano (George Lopez) is a widower with a teenage daughter Naomi (Daniela Bobadilla). A classic workaholic, Eddie has not been there for most of Naomi's big moments, though not from lack of trying. Naomi doesn't appreciate it and is always upset because her father embarrasses Naomi in front of her friends.

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