Capernaum (2018), The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013), Requiem for a Dream (2000), A Dry White Season (1989), Germany Year Zero (1948), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Baby God (2020), What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Family Breakdown movies.
Storyline: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Plot Keywords: social realism, poverty, family breakdown, street life, legal battle, struggle for survival, humanitarianism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The sons (Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon) of two drug-addled hookers must fend for themselves after one's mother goes missing and the other (Jennifer Hudson) is arrested.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, independent film, social issues, poverty, urban life, mother-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state.
Plot Keywords: drugs, addiction, hallucination, despair, downfall, psychological trauma, social marginalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Teacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) mostly ignores the problems of apartheid in South Africa until he discovers that the son of a gardener (Winston Ntshona) at his school has been killed by corrupt policeman Stolz (Jürgen Prochnow). Du Toit persuades human rights attorney Ian McKenzie (Marlon Brando) to try the long-shot case against Stolz. During the trial, Du Toit's transformation into an advocate for justice is so absolute that it distances him from his family.
Plot Keywords: racial discrimination, apartheid, social justice, south africa, human rights, resistance, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War, must do all kinds of work to help his family get food and survive. One day he meets one of his former teachers and hopes to get support from him, but this man's ideas don't lead Edmund into a clearer or safer way of living.—Hugo <transit@cam.org>
Plot Keywords: child's perspective, struggle for survival, moral dilemma, social criticism, black and white, war trauma, berlin ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Joe Clay is a top-notch public-relations man. Anything a client wants, Joe can arrange, from dancing girls to an article in a prominent magazine. But part of the job is drinking, and Joe's ability to consume alcohol seems boundless. When he meets the very pretty Kirsten Arnesen, she prefers chocolate to alcohol; Joe's solution is Brandy Alexander, which is made up of brandy and crème de cacao. Joe and Kirsten eventually marry, but their love can't prevent the downward spiral brought on by alcohol. They try desperately to break the habit but continually relapse until only one of them manages to break free.
Plot Keywords: alcoholism, marital crisis, film noir, drama, addiction, family breakdown, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For more than 30 years, Dr. Quincy Fortier covertly uses his own sperm to inseminate his fertility patients. When his secret is revealed, his children seek the truth about his motives and try to make sense of their own identities.
Plot Keywords: documentary, crime, true story, medical ethics, family secrets, identity crisis, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Madrid housewife (Carmen Maura) tries to retain her sanity in a household full of difficult and odd relatives.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, family drama, social satire, spanish cinema, female protagonist, working class, family conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together?—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: crime, violence, revenge, thriller, based on true events, serial killer, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
Plot Keywords: family, psychological trauma, depression, father-son relationship, mother-son relationship, grief, guilt ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.
Plot Keywords: family conflict, identity crisis, generation gap, social pressure, loneliness, antihero, suburban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman breaks up with her boyfriend, he thinks it's because he's fat. A man is unable to tell her next door neighbor he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11 year old kid is insecure about the fact that he hasn't cum yet. Office workers try to recall the face of a coworker who recently died. A woman is sure she has everything she could ever want. The lives of these individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, psychological thriller, family tragedy, social satire, moral dilemma, sexual repression, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After his divorce, Bill Hooper (Anthony Hopkins) is a shattered man; the biggest blow was losing custody of his son. So when he meets Roger (Jim Broadbent), a man whose wife has also left him and taken their son, Bill takes up Roger's cause as his own -- agreeing to pay all his legal fees. Yet, as the custody battle heats up, Bill makes gestures to reconnect with his ex-wife, Emmy (Harriet Walter), that show that their divorce -- and Bill's anger -- may be more complex than they appear.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, british film, 1980s, divorce, legal, courtroom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. Ed makes a remarkable recovery, and returns home to his wife, Lou, and their son, Richie. He must keep taking cortisone tablets regularly to prevent a recurrence of his illness. But the "miracle" cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to abuse the tablets, causing him to experience increasingly wild mood swings.—Eugene Kim <genekim@concentric.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, social critique, film noir, 1950s, drug abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon find out, is moot: Mr. Kusters has murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he works before committing suicide.—Tim Horrigan <horrigan@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, social criticism, working class, tragedy, political, german cinema ...
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