Back to the Future (1985), The Life of Reilly (2006), Secrets & Lies (1996), Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper (2016), Return to Hardwick (2019), The Joy Luck Club (1993), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Family History movies.
Storyline: Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Plot Keywords: jewish woman, lawyer, austrian, painter, model, nazi, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Cream Will Rise is a documentary that exposes the turbulent and troubling side of singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins' early years when a confrontation with her mother forces her to come to terms with some of the demons and darker moments of her childhood. This moving portrait combines Hawkins' performance footage with intimate moments of revelation.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: singer, mother, musician, songwriter, dark, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
Plot Keywords: fiancée, swordsman, lord, military officer, wife, brooding, japan ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Polish-Jewish family arrives in the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century and they and their children try to build themselves a better future in the promised land.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: immigrant, wife, son, salesman, cousin, endearing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danny Hawkins, who lives in a psychological shadow because his father died by a hangman's noose, accidentally kills a man in a fight over a girl, Gilly Johnson, and is afraid to notify the police. He wins the love of the girl but when she tries to influence him to admit his guilt, he runs away.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: young man, schoolteacher, bully, father, sheriff, deaf mute, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!"
Plot Keywords: dancer, dance instructor, chairman, mother, father, fan, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Setting off on a journey to the west in the 1830s, the Prescott family run into a man named Linus, who helps them fight off a pack of thieves. Linus then marries daughter Eve Prescott (Carroll Baker), and 30 years later goes off to fight in the Civil War with their son, with bloody results. Eve's sister, Lily, heads farther west and has adventures with a professional gambler, stretching all the way to San Francisco and into the 1880s.
Plot Keywords: gambler, fur trapper, singer, frontiersman, captain, lieutenant, striking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.
Plot Keywords: coal miner, wife, son, lawyer, businessman, brother, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Riwka is 65 years old. His tour bus breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz. In the tumult of conversations in Yiddish, anxiety drives you to overflowing. Régine, the same age, thinks to find her old father, who has come to Paris from the other side of Europe. Vera, an 80-year-old Russian, the only one in the world, has just immigrated to Israel at the end of her life. In search of her lost cousin of sight for many years, from bus to bus, alone, foreign to everything, she is lost until exhaustion. And finally in a last bus, by chance, she meets Riwka.—D. Meert
Plot Keywords: old woman, father, husband, cousin, widow, holocaust survivor, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Returning to his family's manor house on the lonely moors after his father dies under mysterious circumstances, Sir Henry Baskerville is confronted with the mystery of the supernatural hound that supposedly takes revenge upon the Baskerville family. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are brought in to investigate.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
Plot Keywords: heir, sherlock holmes, doctor watson, aristocrat, escaped convict, dog, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A medieval nobleman and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. He enlists the aid of his descendent to try to find a way to return home, all the while trying to cope with the cultural and technological changes distinguishing his time from ours.
Plot Keywords: knight, nobleman, aristocrat, amusing, madcap, france, castle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1914: Milo Thatch, grandson of the great Thaddeus Thatch works in the boiler room of a museum. He knows that Atlantis was real, and he can get there if he has the mysterious Shephards journal, which can guide him to Atlantis. But he needs someone to fund a voyage. His employer thinks he's dotty, and refuses to fund any crazy idea. He returns home to his apartment and finds a woman there. She takes him to Preston B. Whitmore, an old friend of his Grandfathers. He gives him the shepherds journal, a submarine and a 5 star crew. They travel through the Atlantic ocean, face a large lobster called the Leviathan, and finally get to Atlantis. But does the Atlantis crew have a lust for discovery, or something else?
Plot Keywords: cartographer, wealthy man, commander, daredevil, explorer, princess, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and performing as a 'fakir' who can do impossible miracles. After his mother's untimely death, he sets out on a journey to find his father and rise from poverty.—palvaaja
Plot Keywords: artist, mother, young woman, indian, american, magician, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.—Mike Myers <mmyers@ucsd.edu>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, nomad, suitor, uncle, creative, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lucy Harbin has been in an asylum for twenty years after axing her husband and his mistress during a crime of passion, witnessed by her young daughter, Carol. While trying to renew ties with Carol, who is now a young woman about to be married, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>
Plot Keywords: killer, mother, daughter, psychiatrist, fiancé, brother, campy ...
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