Highest-Rated Movies about 'Family Tragedy'

American History X (1998), 4 Little Girls (1997), On Golden Pond (1981), The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004), Brooklyn (2015), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Fruitvale Station (2013), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Family Tragedy movies.

#16. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Storyline: Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend... The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students film and video were found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project.

Plot Keywords: found footage, lost in the woods, supernatural horror, ghost story, handheld camera, evil witch, myth ...

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#17. Raintree County (1957)

Storyline: It's the mid nineteenth century in Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana. John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer. He is a romantic, principled, and an idealist, believing the story of the golden raintree - after which the county is named - growing somewhere, most likely in the county's swamp area, searching for and locating it which would provide all the answers to one's life questions. An idea passed down from his father, John also has a strong sense of place as belonging, and as such there is much anticipation in the probable marriage between John and his sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint), a born and bred Raintree girl. However, there is an undeniable mutual attraction on first sight between John and Susanna Drake (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), a visiting southern belle. Despite Susanna's temporary stay in Raintree County which means that she and John may not have a future, they eventually do marry out of circumstance, leaving behind a heartbroken Nell. As their relationship progresses, differences in their life outlooks mirroring the differences between the north and south start to emerge, and which are brought to the forefront, both personally and on a global level with the on-set of the American Civil War. Their relationship issues are also exacerbated by secrets, both facts and beliefs, Susanna is keeping about her family history, with her parents and her black nanny being killed in a mysterious house fire when Susanna was a child.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: southern belle, american civil war, melodrama, based on novel, politics, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, reference to abraham lincoln ...

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#18. Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

Storyline: Forty seven year old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twenties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her.

Plot Keywords: amnesia, female nudity, infidelity, nudity, therapist, memory, female rear nudity ...

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#19. Accidents Happen (2009)

Storyline: There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything changes for him and his family.—Anthony Anderson

Plot Keywords: making out, childhood trauma, lawn sprinkler, man on fire, burn, one liner, grieving ...

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#20. The Boy (2016)

Storyline: Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family's 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son 20 years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.

Plot Keywords: doll, nanny, surprise ending, suicide by drowning, family relationships, family tragedy, family secret ...

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