Latcho Drom (1994), The Big Country (1958), Everybody's Fine (1990), Laila Majnu (2018), Bright Eyes (1934), A Most Violent Year (2014), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952), Arizona Trail (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Family Patriarch movies.
Storyline: The film takes the viewer on a journey west, from India to Spain, with stops along the way, to dramatize Romany's nomadic culture. This journey takes place over a year's time, from summer through fall and winter to spring. Gatlif holds his camera on the elemental essentials of this life: water, the wheel, fire, beasts of burden and of sustenance, colorful clothes, jewelry, musical instruments, song, and dance. Throughout, via song and dance, young and old celebrate, embody, and teach the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: gypsy, daughter, family member, dancing girl, family patriarch, mother, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Retired, wealthy sea Captain James McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless land war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.
Plot Keywords: captain, fiancée, family patriarch, land owner, rancher, son, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit to know how they live. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary Italy, as Matteo journeys to Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, and Turin to search for each of his sons.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: bureaucrat, family patriarch, son, daughter, missing person, touching, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Taking the leap out of the classic folklore, the story is set in today's time in Kashmir where Laila Majnu have problems relevant to the youth of today. While dealing with their feuding families a passionate love story unravels.
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, love interest, family patriarch, family member, husband, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple she used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: orphan, maid, pilot, family patriarch, dog, young girl, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Plot Keywords: family, immigrant, family patriarch, criminal, crime boss, thrilling, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Plot Keywords: country girl, family patriarch, mother, nemesis, daughter, hilarious, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When crafty Doc Wallace sends for Johnny Trent and his pal, Kansas to come home to the Trent ranch in Arizona, Johnny meets Martha Brooks, who is caring for his invalid father, whose ranch some unknown enemy is trying to wrest away, as it has become suddenly valuable. Aided by Wayne Carson and Martha, Johnny uncovers the culprit to be Doc Wallace, the supposed family friend.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, man, friend, father, family patriarch, engaging, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This day really isn't all that different than every other day, except today Ned's gay son Jonah wants to go to a college party, his wife is bringing home her elderly father to live with them, and his outrageous boss seems to have become even more crazy and demanding than would even seem possible. As his wife tries to take care of her father and reconnect with him, Ned tries to reconnect with Jonah, and then without trying, he seems to have formed a connection with his co-worker. If he can get through days like these, he should be able to get through anything else life throws at him.—napierslogs
Plot Keywords: family patriarch, screenwriter, son, gay man, co-worker, father-in-law, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two feuding neighboring families are brought together to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Vishnupratap Singh (Vikram Gokhale) and his wife (Farida Jalal), much to the dislike of Rudra Pratap (Sharad Kapoor). During this get together Abhayendra Singh (Fardeen Khan) falls in love with Mangala Solanki (Richa Pallod). Abhayendra comes to know of the background of the two families' feud, and makes attempts to reconcile the two families - with disasterous results.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: family, family patriarch, family member, lover, young woman, young man, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: H.P. Lovecraft meets Hollywood: Wilbur Whateley wants to help the Old Ones break through by consulting the Necronomicon, and Armitage must stop him.—Brian Bixby <barbix@tiac.net>
Plot Keywords: professor, student, mysterious man, monster, family patriarch, eerie, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real estate transaction that turns into a hostile possession of the manor house, he temporarily loses his mind, leaving his family but not the farm. Instead he hides out in a cave on Goose Creek, waging guerilla warfare against expansionism and the destruction of historic property with the help of his family, friends, and neighbors...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: farmer, real estate agent, family patriarch, wife, child, friend, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter and her precocious 8 year old daughter, his would-be artist son, the son's fiancée, and the black maid. Also thrown into the mix is the daughter's ex-husband, a ne-er-do-well who is seeking to get back in his ex-wife's good graces.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: family, family patriarch, tycoon, preacher, daughter, maid, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Plot Keywords: robin williams, father, son, santa claus, family patriarch, wife, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A special project scientist must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe the US off the map.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: scientist, family, family patriarch, tense, thrilling, spectacular, united states ...
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