Topic: Family Relationships

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Hohi Aoki · Masao Mishima

Plot A widower who lives with his daughter wants her to get married, but she doesn't want to leave him alone. He will pretend that he is about to marry in...

Direction Lee Unkrich · Adrián Molina

Plot Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself...

Direction Abbas Fahdel

Direction Alan Ball · Daniel Attias · Rodrigo García · Jeremy Podeswa

Cast Peter Krause · Michael C. Hall · Rachel Griffiths · Frances Conroy

Plot TV Series (2001-2005). 5 Seasons. 63 Episodes. "Six Feet Under" focuses on the cathartic journey of the extended Fisher family, whose personal trials and tribulations are played out against the...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Paul Newman · Burl Ives · Jack Carson

Plot Based on the play by Tennessee Williams: A party is planned for the 65th birthday of family patriarch 'Big Daddy', but not everyone is in a festive mood. Big Daddy's...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Gottfried John · Hanna Schygulla · Luise Ullrich · Werner Finck

Plot TV Miniseries (1972-1973). Five episodes. "Eight Hours are Not a Day" describes the problems and reality of the german society in the 70's, through the lives of a young man,...

Direction Bong Joon-ho

Cast Song Kang-ho · Lee Seon-gyun · Jang Hye-jin · Cho Yeo-jeong

Plot A peculiar tale about two families who are worlds apart yet somewhat alike portrays a striking reality of the world we live in. Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) and his family...

Direction Jaime Chávarri

Cast Felicidad Blanc · Juan Luis Panero · Leopoldo María Panero · Michi Panero

Plot This film is a documentary about the poet 'Leopoldo Panero'. His widow and his sons talk about death in general and in this special case and also about their own...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Lena Nyman · Halvar Björk

Plot Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) is an acclaimed concert pianist who is visiting her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann) for the first time in seven years. While Charlotte and Eva struggle to be...

Direction Artour Aristakisian

Plot Acclaimed docudrama that received many international awards. Hands is an innovative film which returns us to the very roots of cinema. Although usually described as docudrama, like any new phenomenon...

Direction Tim Burton

Cast Ewan McGregor · Albert Finney · Billy Crudup · Jessica Lange

Plot Edward Bloom (Finney) has always been a teller of tall tales about his oversized life as a young man (Ewan McGregor), when his wanderlust led him on an unlikely journey...

Direction Alon Zingman

Cast Doval'e Glickman · Michael Aloni · Neta Riskin · Shira Haas

Plot TV Series (2013-Now). A Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckons with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life. Shulem Schtisel is the father of a...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Hideo Sugawara · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot In the 30s, a low middle-class family composed of the father (Tatsuo Saito), the mother (Mitsuko Yoshikawa) and two little sons (Hideo Sugawara and Tomio Aoki) has just moved to...

Direction Sam Mendes

Cast Kevin Spacey · Annette Bening · Thora Birch · Allison Janney

Plot Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a middle aged man suffering from a mid-life crisis. He has an epiphany when he lays his eyes on one of his daughter Jane's friends....

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben

Plot Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shima Iwashita · Shinichiro Mikami · Keiji Sada

Plot Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year old daughter. He gradually comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Plot The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The siblings' parents are both...

Direction Nicolás Acuña · Juan Ignacio Sabatini

Cast Benjamín Vicuña · Daniela Ramírez · Alejandro Trejo · Iván Álvarez de Araya

Plot TV Miniseries (2011-2014). 2 Seasons. 24 Episodes. The work of human rights that made the Vicariate of Solidarity during the Chilean military dictatorship.

Direction Waad al-Kateab · Edward Watts

Plot A young woman's struggles with love, war and motherhood over the span of five years in Syria.