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Dysfunctional Family
see all genres ›Though surely no family is perfect, the more messed up that they are, the more compelling the drama.
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Children of Love
A beautiful story of family relations, CHILDREN OF LOVE portrays six family members dealing with questions of loyalty and love. Michael, Winnie and Aurelie are three children of divorced parents. It is Friday morning and they are getting ready to spend their weekend with their fathers. Winnie, age twelve,...Start your free trial to watch
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Cowards Bend the Knee
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Guy Maddin casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made...Start your free trial to watch
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Cruzando
Many earnest films have been made recently about the struggles of Latin American migrants trying to cross into the U.S. for a better tomorrow; CRUZANDO isn't one of them. A madcap adventure following the journey of two Mexican no-hopers, CRUZANDO chronicles the real-life hazards of such a trip. About a week before the birth...Start your free trial to watch
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Dark Horse
In his mid-30s, Abe (Jordan Gelber) clings to the trappings of his adolescence, including the extensive collection of toys and action figures adorning his boyhood bedroom. Still living with his parents Jackie (Christopher Walken) and Phyllis (Mia Farrow), Abe works for his increasingly disappointed Dad and spends evenings...Start your free trial to watch
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Dark Woods
A critically acclaimed psychological thriller; DARK WOODS tells the story of a young couple who moves to a secluded cabin to cope with the wife’s terminal illness. After the husband rescues a young girl from the abusive hands of her psychotic uncle he is coerced by local law enforcement to allow her to stay with them. As the...Start your free trial to watch
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Daughter of Keltoum
A young woman, Rallia, raised in Switzerland, travels to an isolated and barren Berber settlement located in the rocky Atlas Mountains of Algeria. Rallia's journey is one of multi-tiered discovery in terms of her relationship to her extended family, traditional Berber culture and her desperate need to...Start your free trial to watch
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Devarim
DEVARIM is Amos Gitai's debut narrative feature and the first installment in his renowned "City Trilogy" (concluded by 1998's YOM YOM and 1999's KADOSH), a remarkable trio of films each based in one of Israel's thriving metropolises. Making full use of a decade of documentary experience, Gitai transformed Ya'ackov Shabatai's...Start your free trial to watch
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Dogtooth
Graceful, enigmatic and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence...Start your free trial to watch
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Dottie Gets Spanked
Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer/director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (made post-POISON and pre-SAFE) is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I LOVE LUCY. Deep in the heart of pre-hippie 1960s America, young artistically-inclined Steven Gale is obsessed with...Start your free trial to watch
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A double tour
Vintner Henri Marcoux (Jacques Dacqmine) brazenly carries on an affair with a beautiful young neighbor (Antonella Lualdi) right under the nose of his bitter wife Thérèse (Madeleine Robinson). Henri's gorgeous daughter has herself caught the eye of a Hungarian ne'er do well (Jean-Paul Belmondo), while Henri's voyeur son begins...Start your free trial to watch
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Dream No Evil
Don't pay any attention to the turtleneck-sweatered snobs who demand that the negative to this classic be burned. It does have a script (even if it appears to have been written as they filmed). DREAM NO EVIL is about a deranged young woman searching for her father. Every time the continuity becomes too confusing, a narrator...Start your free trial to watch
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Echoes of the Rainbow
Simon Yam stars in ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW, a story of an ordinary family living in Hong Kong from 1967 to 1977. A struggling father from Guangzhou, an iron-willed mother supporting the family and their kids facing countless challenges from a changing world. Between tears and smiles, their stories will touch...Start your free trial to watch
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Everyone Else
A young couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed new filmmaker Maren Ade. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear blissfully in love while enjoying the sun and sand of Sardinia. But the more time they spend together, the more their silly games...Start your free trial to watch
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Falling Angels
Canadian filmmaker Scott Smith directs the black comedy FALLING ANGELS, based on the novel by Barbara Gowdy and adapted for the screen by poet and author Esta Spalding. Set in the late 1960s and filmed on-location in Saskatchewan, this dark family drama focuses on the three teenaged daughters of the Field household. Callum...Start your free trial to watch
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Family Tree
Frederick is a tree grower, and for nearly sixty years he has been cultivating a secret. His wife and eldest son are the only ones around him who know the truth. Pushed by the death of his son, with whom he had a conflicted relationship with, he finally reveals what he just couldn't say to those near and dear to him: his...Start your free trial to watch