Bears (2014), Mother and Son (1997), Just to Be Sure (2017), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Tokyo Story (1953), Hindi Medium (2017), Everybody's Fine (1990), Family Life (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Parent-child Relationship movies.
Storyline: Filmmakers chronicle a year in the lives of a brown bear and her cubs as she teaches them how to forage for food and stay safe from other predators in the Alaskan wilderness.
Plot Keywords: wildlife, alaska, survival, growth, adventure, family bond, educational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small house in the countryside of Russia, a son (Alexei Ananischnov) cares for his sick, elderly mother (Gudrun Geyer) as they prepare for her death. As the mother struggles to breathe and her health gradually deteriorates, her son holds her, feeds her and does his best to comfort her. When the son finally brings the mother to her death bed, the two embark on a journey through a hallucinatory outdoor landscape where they spend their final moments together.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, mother, son, parent-child relationship, end-of-life care, illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A middle-aged bomb disposal expert faces a different kind of explosive situation when he learns that the man who raised him is not his biological father and the woman he is seeing may be his half sister.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, french film, heartwarming, humorous, parent-child relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, aging, marriage, parent-child relationship, social issues, generation gap ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elderly couple Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in the small coastal village of Onomichi, Japan with their youngest daughter, schoolteacher Kyoko Hirayama. Their other three surviving adult children, who they have not seen in quite some time, live either in Tokyo or Osaka. As such, Shukishi and Tomi make the unilateral decision to have an extended visit in Tokyo with their children, pediatrician Koichi Hirayama and beautician Shige Kaneko, and their respective families (which includes two grandchildren). In transit, they make an unexpected stop in Osaka and stay with their other son, Keiso Hirayama. All of their children treat the visit more as an obligation than a want, each trying to figure out what to do with their parents while they continue on with their own daily lives. At one point, they even decide to ship their parents off to an inexpensive resort at Atami Hot Springs rather than spend time with them. The only offspring who makes a concerted effort on this trip is Noriko ...
Plot Keywords: family, generation gap, aging, loneliness, tradition, modernity, parent-child relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A couple from Chandni Chowk aspire to give their daughter the best education and thus be a part of and accepted by the elite of Delhi.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, education, social, bollywood, middle class ...
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: drama, family, parent-child relationship, loneliness, aging, journey, reconciliation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 19 years old London girl received agressive psychiatric treatments for her schizophrenic behaviour by a doctor who still wants her family to insure the guard of the child without any regards to the facts that it is this family who's agravating her situation.—Jean-Marie Berthiaume <jiembe@videotron.ca>
Plot Keywords: family, drama, british film, social issues, psychological drama, realism, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.
Plot Keywords: thriller, drama, crime, family, internet, technology, father ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, history, germany, family, capitalism, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When his wife dies during childbirth, repairman Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) can't accept the responsibility of his newborn son and gives him up. Fifteen years later, he meets his son, Paolo (Andrea Rossi), for the first time on a train to Berlin, and discovers that he's disabled. The meeting is awkward, and Gianni is stunned by the treatment Paolo receives from his German doctors. Eventually, with the help of another parent (Charlotte Rampling), Gianni learns to cope with delayed fatherhood.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, parent-child relationship, disability, father-son relationship, coming of age, italian cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Ireland, Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters. When she gets herself pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, pregnancy, working class, coming of age, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A quirky comedy about the relationship between a daughter and her aging father, whose eccentricities drive everyone crazy.
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, drama, indian cinema, parent-child relationship, generation gap, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima...
Plot Keywords: drama, family, immigration, generational conflict, tradition vs modernity, coming of age, parent-child relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and, recently, everything seems to make him feel useless: a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager, irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family that gradually gives its support to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work, this dream soon becomes a reality...or almost....—Venice Film Festival
Plot Keywords: drama, family, immigration, french cinema, social realism, cultural conflict, parent-child relationship ...
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