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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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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
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Nel regno di Napoli
The New German Cinema figurehead least likely to risk commercial success (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog and even Hans-Jürgen Syberberg granted themselves easier access for most international audiences), Werner Schroeter was nonetheless an influential and important figure, surviving...Start your free trial to watch
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Nero, or the Fall of Rome
Luigi Maggi's 1909 dramatization of the downfall of Nero comes off as steamy melodrama in more ways than one. The full-screen green tint matches the green-eyed monster that enters the opening scene, as Nero's wife Octavia notices the look that passes between her husband and Poppea. Although the women's...Start your free trial to watch
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Never Met Picasso
A romantic and whimsical comedy on the mysteries of love, sex and art. Starring Alexis Arquette (SCREAM) and Margot Kidder (SUPERMAN). Andrew (Arquette), a gay thirty-year-old live-at-home artist is in the midst of a serious creative funk. A wry and sharply drawn look at contemporary gay bohemia that's...Start your free trial to watch
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A New Day in Old Sana'a
In this achingly romantic tale, handsome young Tariq is about to marry Bilquis, eldest daughter of a prominent and powerful judge. But as he wanders the ancient city of Sana'a late one night, he spots a beautiful young woman dancing in the street and falls madly in love with her. Before long, the young...Start your free trial to watch
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Nicholas Nickleby
With THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and DAVID COPPERFIELD, both released in 1911, and NICHOLAS NICKLEBY in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of the best Dickens adaptations in American film. Under one-man story department Lloyd Lonergan, with regular scenarist contributions by Gertrude Thanhouser,...Start your free trial to watch
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Oasis
Hailed as the seminal film of the Korean new wave, acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong’s OASIS tells the story of two societal misfits and their struggle to find love and acceptance amidst the hypocrisy of modern Korean life. Fate helped bring them together, family fought to keep them apart.Start your free trial to watch
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One Day You'll Understand
As the 1987 trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie unfolds on television, Victor Bastien (Hippolyte Girardot) reviews old family documents and finds a distressing “Aryan declaration” authored by his late father, a discovery that throws Victor’s conception of his family’s history into darkness. His mother,...Start your free trial to watch
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Only in the Way
Through most of 1910, the first year of Thanhouser releases, the studio created vehicles around one of its earliest stars, child actress Marie Eline. She was one of the few movie players to receive screen credit in those early days. Her film role previous to this one was Little Nell in THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. The dramatic...Start your free trial to watch
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Or
Or (Dana Ivgy), a pretty and popular Tel Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first love. But Or's real full-time job is looking after her mother Ruthie (Ronit Elkabetz). After twenty dehumanizing years of curbside prostitution,...Start your free trial to watch
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Pegasus
Zineb is an emotionally exhausted psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman found in the street muttering unintelligibly about “The Lord of the Horse.” A flashback sequence returns us to Rihana’s childhood, where her dictatorial father, horseman chief of his tribe, raises her as the son his...Start your free trial to watch
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Piccolo mondo antico
Antonio Fogazarro's classic 1897 novel has been adapted several times by Italian filmmakers, though this well-appointed first version remains the definitive effort for many. The young Alida Valli (best known, perhaps, for her role in THE THIRD MAN) plays a woman of humble origins who marries nobleman...Start your free trial to watch
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Pinprick
A teenage girl is hiding a criminal inside her bedroom closet. At first they have an innocent relationship: trading stories, making up rules and goofing around, but slowly the man becomes bored with her girly ways and begins to spy on her lonely mother. One day after a jealous fight with the girl, the man leaves the closet...Start your free trial to watch
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A Place to Go
Set in and around Bethnal Green, this classic example of "kitchen sink" drama plays out against the background of the slum clearances in London. A PLACE TO GO portrays a family struggling to keep their heads above the water when the man of the house (Bernard Lee) leaves his docker's job to take to the streets as an...Start your free trial to watch
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Poison
The second feature directed by Todd Haynes, POISON is a groundbreaking American independent film and was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s as well as a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes’ spectacular follow-up to his legendary SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY is...Start your free trial to watch
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The Prize
Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-year-old Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a...Start your free trial to watch
