Dysfunctional Family Movies

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live...

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking...

A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl...

College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond...

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But...

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.

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...

Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention...

Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most...

It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's...

A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.

A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the...

Ben Cooper and his family are struggling to get a grip on household chores, school and work. So when Ben sees that a Smart House is being given away,...

Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family...