Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Equinox Flower (1958), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Attack! (1956), An Education (2009), Meet the Parents (2000), The Wolfpack (2015), Looking for Alibrandi (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Overbearing Father movies.
Storyline: The family of "Big Daddy" Pollitt convenes at his and Big Momma's. Among the attendees is alcoholic son, Brick; an ex-football player, who spends his time drinking and avoiding the ministries of his libidinous wife, Maggie - 'the cat'. As this gathering isn't so much as a gathering but a farewell (Big Daddy is terminally ill) a lot of memories and revelations which had been hidden come to the surface of both father and son.
Plot Keywords: southern gothic, husband wife relationship, homosexuality, based on play, marriage problems, father in law daughter in law relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family and romantic relationships. He is always very calmly and objectively able to give great insight and assistance to these particular situations. However, when it comes time for him to be objective regarding his oldest daughter, he finds it very difficult...—Karl Engel <cassiel@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: marriage, young woman, domineering father, forbidden love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, train station ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other. Bud, the popular football captain, and Deanie, the sensitive soul, are "good" kids who have only gone as far as kissing. Unspoken to each other, they expect to get married to each other one day. But both face pressures within the relationship, Bud who has the urges to go farther despite knowing in his heart that if they do that Deanie will end up with a reputation like his own sister, Ginny Stamper, known as the loose, immoral party girl, and Deanie who will do anything to hold onto Bud regardless of the consequences. They also face pressures from their parents who have their own expectation for their offspring. Bud's overbearing father, Ace Stamper, the local oil baron, does not believe Bud can do wrong and expects him to go to Yale after graduation, which does not fit within Bud's own expectations for himself. And the money and image conscious Mrs. Loomis just wants...
Plot Keywords: melodrama, breakup, brother sister relationship, church, connecticut, doctor, face slap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the closing days of WWII, a National Guard Infantry Company is assigned the task of setting up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lieutenant Costa knows that Cooney is in command only because of 'connections' he had made state-side. Costa has serious doubts concerning Cooneys' ability to lead the group. When Cooney sends Costa and his men out, and refuses to re-enforce them, Costa swears revenge.—Buxx Banner <buxx572@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: year 1944, u.s. soldier, 1940s, u.s. military, drunkenness, u.s. army, father son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association ...
Plot Keywords: 1960s, age difference, coming of age, teenage girl, loss of virginity, girls' school, culture ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Jewish male nurse plans to ask his live-in girl friend to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detector in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister also has announced her wedding to a young doctor. Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie.
Plot Keywords: misunderstanding, father in law, trailer narrated by hal douglas, father daughter relationship, hidden camera, overbearing father, cia agent ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed, 'The Wolfpack,' the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers decides to revisit the outside world and everything changes.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: siblings, manhattan new york city, recluse, hermit, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, confinement ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alibrandi ultimately concerns a senior high school girl embracing her Italian heritage, but moving toward the less traditional Australian way of life. A wonderful cast who play their roles superbly. The film plays on several levels. It will make you laugh and cry and ultimately better realise the dramas in life, how we adapt and how cope.
Plot Keywords: three word title, lawyer, private school, racist, scholarship, friendship, friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.
Plot Keywords: female frontal nudity, male full frontal nudity, male frontal nudity, male nudity, class differences, dysfunctional family, male model ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Stafford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Cristina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star. One of Stafford's clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the 60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night... Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania and befriended a limo driver Jerome who is also an aspiring actor.
Plot Keywords: male frontal nudity, male full frontal nudity, aspiring actor, male nudity, dysfunctional family, sex, lesbian sex ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Janey is new in town and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: telephone call, telephone, brunette, bare chested boy, watching tv, remote control, school bus ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As he struggles out of his slimy prison he comes face to face with his opponent - a grotesque, powerful and very angry bug. All 3 ft of it. And so begins a hideous, nail-biting, comedic, all-action adventure to find a safe haven while constantly outwitting an infestation of monstrous proportions. As Cooper embarks on his journey, he befriends a ragtag group of survivors including Sara, a feisty determined female. Will they make it to safety before they are picked off one by one? And what other surprises are in store for our group of unlikely heroes?—Icon
Plot Keywords: insect, giant insect, attempted seduction, double barreled shotgun, father son relationship, night vision goggles, monster movie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and line-ups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past, and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he's shocked, but not necessarily uninterested.
Plot Keywords: generation gap, death of father, father son relationship, heist, family relationships, robbery, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Bakers, while on vacation, find themselves competing with a rival family of eight children.
Plot Keywords: twin, bloopers during credits, trophy wife, new york city, first love, first date, sequel to remake ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suraj Singh (Anil Kapoor) is in love with the beautiful and wealthy Komal (Karisma Kapoor). They dream of their perfect family together but her arrogant father Yashpal Chaudhary (Amrish Puri) detests Suraj because he is middle class youth, with no riches whatsoever. Komal cuts all ties with her father and marries Suraj, she is soon pregnant.Komal and her estranged father meet at a family wedding and her forgives her for leaving abruptly. Yashpal agrees to meet Suraj but when they reach home they see a seductress inside, wearing Komal's gown and drinking tea in the kitchen. Suraj walks in totally oblivious to the fact that there is a woman inside her house that he does not know. Komal questions the seductress and she says she shares Komal's husband. Komal is furious and tries to commit suicide but Suraj stops her and repeatedly tries to prove his innocence. It turns out Yashpal set up the whole thing to break their marriage. Komal leaves her husband with her father. She delivers a baby boy but Yashpal wants to make sure that the one thing that can bring her daughter and Suraj together be eliminated immediately. He hires hit men to kill the baby but Suraj manages to get away with his son.They move to a unknown place and he raises his son with the help of the villagers. Suraj later meets Vaijanti (Shilpa Shetty) an eccentric fisher woman who his son sees as a mother and friend. Vaijanti begins to love Suraj, and hopes that he feels the same way.Komal depressed and lonely spots her son with Suraj. Then begins a bitter custody battle between her and Suraj.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: judge, security guard, fight, child abuse, blood, beating, father in law son in law relationship ...
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