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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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Lola
Lola’s life is unfulfilling. Her relationship is abusive and she is confused all the time. Desperate for change, Lola is by chance placed at the scene of a near fatal traffic accident. She saves the life of a woman, Sandra, who turns out to be everything Lola aspires to be: confident, outspoken and in control of her destiny....Start your free trial to watch
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A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn
A young widow, Noriko, lives with her senile father-in-law, Shukichi, on a farm. He believes his favorite cow, long gone, is still alive. Noriko pretends to be the cow and lets him milk her, a satisfying arrangement for them both. Shukichi's daughter discovers their bizarre relationship and tries to put an...Start your free trial to watch
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The Magic of Marciano
THE MAGIC OF MARCIANO is the story of a young boy named James who quietly yearns for a better life. He tried to comfort his loving mother Katie (Nastassja Kinski) when her disturbing mood swings bring her to the edge of hysteria. He ignores the fights between his mom and her antagonistic boyfriend Curt by...Start your free trial to watch
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Making an American Citizen
Pioneering director Alice Guy-Blanché produced this short only a few years after she herself immigrated to the United States from France. Gender relations are at the center of her fable of assimilation. A Russian couple come off the boat in native dress and, with the Statue of Liberty still in sight, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Manila
William is a junkie who needs to score heroin. When a buy is interrupted by cops, Williams is left without dope. He scours the underbelly of the city in desperate search of a fix while on-the-run from the law. Meanwhile, William's mother and girlfriend both fear the worst and try to find him before he buys more drugs or runs...Start your free trial to watch
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Masquerades
After working for much of his life as a gardener in his dusty Algerian village, Mounir dreams of improving his family’s fortune and gaining a measure of respect by marrying off his narcoleptic sister, Rym, to a “real gentleman.” However, Rym has other plans; she dreams of marrying Mounir’s best friend, Khliffa, who has...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky, the acclaimed master of Soviet cinema, takes a moving and personal turn with this striking meditation on life in Russia during the bleak days of WWII. THE MIRROR is not just the display of a film director at the peak of his unique powers. As an homage to the innocence of childhood, it tells an enigmatic tale...Start your free trial to watch
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Mod Fuck Explosion
WEST SIDE STORY meets RUMBLE IN THE BRONX meets A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Bizarre tale of London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket who lives in a dysfunctional family home where the mother keeps popping and sexually playing with her other child, X-Ray, a member of a gang of Mods who are...Start your free trial to watch
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Modern Love
John, his wife Emily and their small son Edward leave the city for what they believe will be a brief foray to the countryside to claim John's inheritance: a small shack. They find themselves in a strange back-woods rural setting. Nothing is what it seems. John's behavior becomes increasingly bizarre as he crosses paths with...Start your free trial to watch
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Momma's Man
Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife and infant daughter that await him there, Mikey (Matt Boren) returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. "You can stay here as long as you want," Mikey's mother tells him. But in Azazel Jacobs' MOMMA'S...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mothering Heart
Love will tear us apart and, occasionally, will bring us back together, too. D.W. Griffith's THE MOTHERING HEART tells the tale of a man and his wife separated by a drive for success and the temptations of another woman. Things spiral out of control until they return to the point where it began. Perhaps...Start your free trial to watch
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Moulin Rouge
Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald André Dupont took almost a year to make MOULIN ROUGE at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928. This film...Start your free trial to watch
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Mourning
From a black screen, a man and a woman are heard arguing and hurrying away from a house. Afterward, the screen radiates brilliant green countryside, traversed by a small black car. Subtitles relay a conversation by another man and woman, but now we hear no voices. Kamran and Sharareh, a deaf couple, are driving Sharareh’s...Start your free trial to watch
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Mr. Wolf
Disgusted with for-profit warmongering, a rich industrialist liquidates his assets and relocates his family to a secluded island of peace. His wife pines for stock market reports and railroad catastrophes and the rest of the family is similarly bored. Mr. Wolf’s declamatory pacifism is found wanting when capital rears its...Start your free trial to watch
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Mutum
Thiago is a sensitive and imaginative boy living on a small, hardscrabble farm in a remote region of Brazil. His life is filled not only with curiosity and youthful discovery but also the reality of his parent's unhappy marriage and his father's abuse, all of which are one day changed by a chance encounter and unexpected...Start your free trial to watch
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My Fair Son
From ground-breaking gay Chinese filmmaker Cui Zi’en comes a tender and touching tale about a father and son trying to reconcile their separate lives. Ray, a tall, thin and handsome young man, returns to live with his father after having grown up with his grandfather. He is disconnected and angry over his father’s middle...Start your free trial to watch
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My Way
MY WAY is a searing emotional crime drama set in Barcelona. Marc is a small-time hustler on the run from the mob after a drug deal goes awry. He is also simultaneously navigating strained relationships with his wife, his disaffected daughter and his estranged father, whose affliction with Alzheimers hampers his ability to...Start your free trial to watch
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Myriad of Lights
This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. When he is fired by his unscrupulous boss, the...Start your free trial to watch