Scent of a Woman (1992), Ordinary People (1980), Family Life (1971), The Next Three Days (2010), City Island (2009), August: Osage County (2013), It's Only the End of the World (2016), Mother! (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Family Argument movies.
Storyline: Frank is a retired Lt. Col. in the US Army. He's blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to university; to help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over Thanksgiving. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she didn't reckon on Frank spending his Thanksgiving in New York.
Plot Keywords: private school, tango, suicide attempt, loss of eyesight, bitterness, blindness, preparatory school ...
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: psychiatrist, mother son relationship, based on novel, father son relationship, psychoanalysis, dysfunctional family, family crisis ...
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: clock, family crisis, family argument, self destructiveness, sexual repression, deeply disturbed person, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.
Plot Keywords: father son relationship, dumpster, female doctor, doctor, kiss, handcuffs, robbery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.
Plot Keywords: father daughter relationship, mother son relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, teenager, handcuffs, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Violet Weston (Meryl Streep) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiancé), eldest daughter Barbara (with her separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August.
Plot Keywords: incestuous relationship, suicide, anger, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, family secret, death of husband ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After 12 years of absence, Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a writer, goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fuelled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people's incapacity to listen and love.
Plot Keywords: gay lead character, illness, returning home, family reunion, dysfunctional family, family relationships, based on play ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Amidst a wild flat meadow encircled by an Edenic lush forest, a couple have cocooned themselves in a secluded mansion that was not so long ago burned to the ground, devotedly restored by the supportive wife. Within this safe environment, the once famous middle-aged poet husband is desirous of creating his magnum opus; however, he seems unable to break out of the persistent creative rut that haunts him. Then, unexpectedly, a knock at the door, the sudden arrival of a cryptic late-night visitor and his intrusive wife will stimulate the writer's stagnant imagination. Little by little, much to the perplexed wife's surprise, the more chaos he lets in their haven, the better for his punctured male ego. In the end, will this incremental mess blemish, irreparably, the couple's inviolable sanctuary?
Plot Keywords: cannibalism, surrealism, pregnancy, uninvited guest, pregnant woman, death of baby, riot ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability to pull "10s" every weekend without fail. Yet even the finest flings don't compare to the transcendent bliss he achieves alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Dissatisfied, he embarks on a journey to find a more gratifying sex life, but ends up learning larger lessons of life and love through relationships with two very different women.
Plot Keywords: sex, woman on top, oral sex, nightclub, husband wife relationship, pornography, watching porn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Everyone is gathering at Lane's place for the weekend, and everyone's in love. Unfortunately, each beloved loves somebody else, and no one seems to realize it.—Cleo <frede005@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Plot Keywords: family relationships, friendship, affair, regret, dysfunctional family, family secret, alcoholic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Menashe, a widower, lives and works within the Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn. Since his wife passed away a year before, he has been trying hard to regain custody of his nine-year-old son, Rieven. But the rabbi (and all the community behind him) will not hear of it unless he re-marries, which Menashe does not want, his first marriage having been very unhappy. Father and son get on well together, but can Menashe take care of Rieven properly? Not really for all his goodwill as he holds down a low-paid job as a grocery clerk that consumes too much of his efforts and energy. Always late, always in a hurry, he endeavors to improve himself though. But will his efforts be enough to convince the rabbi that he can be a good father without a wife at home?—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: one word title, english subtitles in original, subtitles, guardian, fat man, religious faith, washing hands ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Plot Keywords: 1970s, beauty contest, women's liberation, sexism, discrimination, feminist, grandmother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a gated community. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth.
Plot Keywords: interracial couple, neighbor, suburb, police, neighborhood, moving in, husband wife relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Lieutenant Colonel Alan Caldwell was his commanding officer several years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping the relationship at all.
Plot Keywords: police, murder investigation, neo noir, military police, investigation, army, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 39-year-old April Epner's childish husband and school teacher colleague Benjamin/Ben leaves her, but with her biological clock ticking ever more loudly. Her dying bossy adoptive mother is very vocal about her disappointment, while her natural son Freddy, a doctor, is most understanding. Shy but fascinating British author Frank meets April, his doted son Jimmy Ray's teacher, which soon leads to a full-flung affair. At the same time April's birth mother Bernice Graves locates her and begins attempting to establish a relationship. On top of all these balls in the air, April discovers she's finally expecting Ben's baby.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: based on novel, independent film, directorial debut, mother daughter relationship, miscarriage, new york city, pregnancy ...
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