Dysfunctional Family Movies

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

11-year-old Alexander Garcia thinks he has the worst luck in the world, and when his family sets off on a road trip to California, he’s pretty sure di...

A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing sc...

After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own exist...

"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive yo...

Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them.

Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy....

Edward's father walked out on his family years ago. In the years since, his mother has become a fundamentalist Christian and fallen for the school's s...

Strong-willed Olga Nikolaevna is the boss at home and at work. The only one who breaks the order in her life is her son-in-law-like nothing else. Then...

Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. Bu...

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who w...

Six men and women who are completely underground to one another have been given false memories and are living together as a family in a capsule hall....

Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's inten...

Kayla, an underprivileged Japanese American 16 year old, endangers her promising future as an aspiring artist when she becomes involved with a drug de...

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower po...

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to...

Nubi, a wealthy man with Communist ties, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal, who has been disowned for being gay, to let him inherit his father's...

When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home,...