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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 133.

A Match Made in Heaven (1997)

drama film, romance film

Thomas "Tom" Rosner is a successful divorce lawyer, but, his being unmarried is the greatest sorrow of his elderly mother Helen, who is in remission from cancer. As Helen visits the hospital for a check-up, she encounters her doctor's new nurse Jane Cronin, a single woman who is hesitant to meet someone new after getting out of a five-year relationship. She is taken by Jane's beauty, compassion, intelligence and sense of humor, and immediately decides that she is the one for her son.

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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

romantic comedy

A week from the end of high school, Andy (Mickey Rooney) is keenly anticipating his graduation, but is putting more effort into running the various student committees – most of which he chairs – than studying for his examinations. His father, honorable judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) learns that Andy has been giving money for tuition to a fellow student, a girl named Kathryn Land (Kathryn Grayson). Judge Hardy also learns that Kathryn's father is poor.

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Scream Bloody Murder (1973)

Horror, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, horror film, slasher film

As his father works on a tractor, young Matthew turns it on and kills him with it, damaging his own left hand in the process. Matthew is subsequently placed in a psychiatric hospital, and his mangled limb is replaced with a hook. At the age of eighteen, Matthew is released from the asylum, and returns home, discovering that in his absence his mother has married a neighbor named Mack Parsons.

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Smoky (1946)

Western film, drama film, family film

A cowboy riding alone in Utah witnesses a stampede of wild stallions, one of whom particularly catches his eye. He returns the horse to its rightful owner, Julie Richards, owner of the Rocking R Ranch, introducing himself as Clint Barkley and asking for a job. The wild horse, Smoky, slowly develops a relationship with Clint, but ranch foreman Jeff doesn't trust the new hired hand, who is vague and mysterious about his past.

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Pod (2015)

Horror, horror film, psychological horror fiction

After receiving a warning not to come to their family lake house in Maine, siblings Lyla and Ed stage an intervention for their brother, Martin, a dishonorably discharged veteran who believes the military has experimented on him. When they arrive, they find that he has descended into apparent paranoid psychosis and claims to have trapped a monster in the basement. Martin explains that he found a pod while hunting in the woods and believes it to be part of a government conspiracy to create artificial, inanimate assassins.

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Holy Lands (2017)

Family Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film

Facing a crossroads in life, American Jewish retired cardiologist Harry Rosenmerck leaves New York and his family with an unlikely plan to start a pig farm in Nazareth, causing the anger of local communities. His conflict with the town Rabbi, Moshe Cattan slowly turns into a friendship that leads him to reevaluate his relationship with his estranged family, including his difficult ex-wife, his 34-year-old student daughter, and his playwright son David. Through an emotional journey, this dysfunctional group will try to make their way back to each other, renewing ties when they all need it the most.

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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000)

comedy drama, coming-of-age film

{{Plot}} The story begins with Dwayne , Dolores , and Harold playing a game of cards with Dolores trying to convince Dwayne to take a cat Harold found on the way home. Dwayne thinks there is clearly something wrong with the cat and refuses to take it. One afternoon, Dwayne in his living room with his girlfriend Nina .

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Sammy Going South (1963)

Adventure, adventure film

Ten-year-old English boy Sammy Hartland lives in Port Said, Egypt, with his parents. When they are killed in a bombing during the Suez Crisis, the boy flees the city in the ensuing panic. He sets out to reach his only living relative, an aunt who lives 5,000 miles to the south in Durban, South Africa - at the other end of the continent and in a different hemisphere.

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Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)

Animation, Family Comedy, Super Hero

For their first day on the job as the new protectors of Metro City after defeating the deranged villain Titan, Megamind and Minion are selling off their gadgets from their evil lair to the citizens for good purposes . All of their items get sold . As for the Dehydrating Gun, it gets sold to a boy named Damien, who accidentally uses on his mother and turns her into a cube.

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Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)

Drama

Dan and Laura Miller have been married for nine years, are separated, and in a custody dispute over their deaf son, Adam. Their close relationship began to change when Adam loses his hearing at the age of four, the condition was initially accepted as Laura is deaf since her youth. Adam turns eight years old and he is injured when Dan is unable to warn him of oncoming danger.

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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)

Horror, Mysterie, horror film, science fiction film

While contemplating a shrunken head, professor Jonathan Drake has a vision of three floating skulls. Recoiling in fear, he instructs his daughter Alison to dispatch a telegram to his 60-year-old brother Kenneth, saying he will visit Kenneth on Thursday. But before Jonathan can arrive, Kenneth sees a shrunken head outside his window.

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Just Peck (2009)

Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film

A skinny high school sophomore dreams up a science project that will make him a living legend, and win him the heart of a pretty senior who sees his true potential. Michael Peck is the kid nobody sees while he's walking down the hall. But when popular senior Emily takes a liking to Michael, he starts to become a little less invisible.

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Gone Are the Dayes (1984)

Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy television program

When the Daye family goes out to dinner, they become accidental witnesses to a gangland slaying at a Japanese restaurant. One of the mobsters, Nick Delgado, is shot and captured, and the family reluctantly agrees to testify against him for the government. After Nick's father, mobster Papa Delgado, sends his other son Frank to silence the Dayes, the FBI assigns Charlie Mitchell, a grizzled and unlucky veteran agent, to protect them until the trial.

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My Best Girl (1927)

Romantic Comedy

The film starts out at The Merrill Department store where a very exhausted stockgirl named Maggie Johnson is given a moment to attend to the sales counter. There she encounters a charming, handsome man who pretends to be interested in purchasing some children's toys, but, after many humorous demonstrations by Maggie, the manager comes over and gives the man his time card. The man is said to be Joe Grant, but in reality, he is the owner's son, making him Joseph Merrill.

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The Mini-Munsters (1973)

adventure film, animated film, comedy film, drama film, family film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film

The cartoon begins with some gangsters asking directions to an oil refinery. After Herman gives them directions, the gasoline company president is seen bound and gagged in the back of the gangsters' car. Soon after a messenger bat arrives from Transylvania and the Munsters are informed their cousins Igor and Lucretia are coming to visit them.

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The Thing About My Folks (2005)

Family Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film

When Muriel Kleinman unexpectedly leaves her husband Sam, their three daughters Linda, Hillary, Bonnie, and daughter-in-law Rachel set about trying to find her while Sam and his son Ben spend a day in the country inspecting property Ben and his wife are considering buying. The journey evolves into an extended road trip in a restored 1940 Ford Deluxe coupe convertible Sam buys when Ben's car crashes. As time passes, the two men fish, drink, and play pool while discussing the past and reestablishing their relationship.

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Kids of the Round Table (1995)

adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, medieval film

A boy named Alex Cole and his friends have fun participating in pretend medieval battles at a "castle" built from a shed. After one such battle, the kids gather around a round table and Alex tells his friends about the legend of King Arthur. A group of bullies led by James "Scar" Scarsdale arrives and intimidates Alex's friends into fleeing.

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Keeping the Promise (1997)

Keeping The Promise tells the story of a 13-year-old boy, Matt (Brendan Fletcher) and his father, (Keith Carradine) who, as early settlers, together build a wooden cabin in Maine in 1768. However, Matt's father must head back to Quincy, Massachusetts, to get Matt's mother, sister, and newborn sibling who were all left behind so Matt and his father could build shelter for them. Matt's father promises to return in seven weeks and Matt is left alone with his father's old watch (a family heirloom) and a hunting rifle to guard the family's newly built homestead and field crops.

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