The Father of My Children (2009), Autumn Sonata (1978), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), My Architect (2003), The Jolson Story (1946), I Could Go on Singing (1963), Liar Liar (1997), Panga (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Career Vs. Family movies.
Storyline: The couple from Vienna, a theater director, and Daniel, a nursing home doctor, are going through a crisis. They love each other, but they can't stand each other. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the agonizing void in their lives. Their worlds and their needs are different, almost antagonistic. Story about the worst of loneliness: loneliness in company; about unsatisfied wishes and promises that cannot be fulfilled, but which become a pretext to continue living in spite of everything.—jsanchez
Plot Keywords: director, doctor, son, nurse, actor, gripping, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Society has long pressured women into an either/or situation: Either you raise a family, or you pursue a career. This documentary features five women who do not accept such a division but instead strive to balance their artistic pursuits with raising children. Rather than being detrimental, the challenges of each pursuit reinforce and enrich those of the other. This is examined within the larger context of women's representation in the male-dominated art world.
Plot Keywords: mother, feminist, actor, painter, sculptor, child, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kit (Kenny Bee) is a well-known, highly regarded chef, but his work has always come before his family. After his wife leaves him, taking their new baby with her, an inconsolable Kit drowns his sorrows in alcohol, causing his career and life to fall apart. Meanwhile, Au (Lo Ka-Ying) is a restaurateur trying to retain ownership of his business. It seems the only way to do this is to win the Manchu Han Imperial Feast cooking competition, so Au enlists Kit to help him do just that.
Plot Keywords: restaurant owner, wife, daughter, father, baby, amusing, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie concerns a pacifist husband who is so involved in his "causes" he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic, in as much as the father is a known pacifist. When they get to the school, their sons have disappeared.—Tapestry6
Plot Keywords: pacifist, wife, son, brother, headmaster, endearing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.—Roger Dearnaley <roger@paperart.com>
Plot Keywords: commander, colonel, wife, alcoholic, best friend, replacement, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After years of disagreeing on what true happiness, success, and love really are, Dave and Clarice Johnson have finally reached a breaking point in their marriage. When Clarice is hurt in a car accident, the obvious truth that more than just her injuries need immediate attention is exposed. Their odds of making it worsen as Clarice begins to see a physical therapist, and Dave develops a friendship with Julie and her teenage son Bryson. The acceptance and comfort he finds in them stirs his longing for a family and a passionate partner. As temptation tugs at Dave and Clarice pulls farther away, they must confront whether their vows are or are NOT EASILY BROKEN.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, mother, physical therapist, teen boy, bishop, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Kingman is a huge football star. He's got women, money, and a good career. Everything is perfect for him. Then one day an 8 year old girl shows up at his door telling him that she's his daughter from a past relationship. Once he has proof that she is for a fact his, he tries but fails miserably at "parenting." From problems such as his super speedy car with no backseat, to leaving her in a bar at 3 am, he's got a lot to deal with. Eventually though, she gets him, (and his football team) wrapped around her finger. When she has a near-death experience and Joe finds out her mother died early that year, he wants her to move and live with him. Her aunt though disagrees and takes her home. Joe has to play the game of his life and when he's injured, and things don't look good for him, his daughter comes out and gets him right back on the field.
Plot Keywords: quarterback, daughter, agent, ballet director, sister-in-law, ex-wife, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Workaholic attorney, Alex [Winstead] is forced to reinvent her life after her husband suddenly leaves. Now faced with the humdrum and sometimes catastrophic events that permeate the fabric of our lives, Alex discovers both a vulnerability and inner strength she had not yet tapped all while trying to hold together her broken family.—RF
Plot Keywords: lawyer, ex-husband, ex-wife, workaholic, uplifting, sad, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was A Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: animal, boy, dog owner, father, son, best friend, puppy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jerry dreams of becoming a famous jazz singer, but to accomplish that, he must defy his father, a Jewish Cantor who opposes such a dream as a future for a son of his.
Plot Keywords: jew, jazz singer, father, cantor, girlfriend, mother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.
Plot Keywords: executive, daughter, rival, wife, native american, bully, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At 33, Doug Stauber is ready for a promotion. He's married, wants to buy a house, and is assistant manager at a Chicago supermarket that's building a new store in his neighborhood. His boss tells him he's a shoo-in to manage the new store, then, a rival appears - Richard Wehlner, transferred from Canada. Richard has a deeper resume than Doug, is really nice, has a wife and daughter, and wants the promotion to manager too. How should Doug behave toward Richard - as a friend, a colleague, a competitor, or an enemy? Richard, it seems, has demons and a past, but with the help of motivational tapes, he's resolved to succeed. Corporate and personal tests await the two men.
Plot Keywords: manager, canadian, gang member, wife, rival, boss, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years and their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise; a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before (annulled the next day) shows up to tell him he's the father of her twins, now seven, and she'll be in jail for 14 days for a political protest. Dan volunteers to keep the tykes, although he's uptight and clueless. With Charlie's help is there any way they can be dad and uncle, meet the kids' expectations, and still land the account?
Plot Keywords: bachelor, child, twin, best friend, father, old flame, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's about a lawyer who succeeds professionally by constant lying. His persistent dishonesty infuriates his wife, who threatens to leave him if he doesn't straighten out. Fearful of his parents' divorce, Raj's son wishes that his father could not lie, and creates a sort of curse that prevents Raj from speaking anything but the truth.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, mistress, wife, son, friend, hilarious, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Married realtors Jim and Sara with their children go to Gracey Manor and Mr. Gracey is enamored with Sara and they discover that Sara looks like Mr. Gracey's old girlfriend, Elizabeth, who died young and they think it was a suicide but discover something more sinister.
Plot Keywords: ghost, wife, son, daughter, real estate agent, butler, amusing ...
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