Tag Archives: Family

Iris

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6092 votes

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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).
Actors
Young Iris MurdochKate Winslet
Young John BayleyHugh Bonneville
Iris MurdochJudi Dench

Family Business

IMDB Rating: 5.40
4028 votes

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Jessie is an ageing career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he's shocked, but not necessarily disinterested....
Actors
Jessie McMullenSean Connery
Vito McMullenDustin Hoffman
Adam McMullenMatthew Broderick

Nil by Mouth

IMDB Rating: 7.20
2464 votes

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The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
Actors
RayRay Winstone
BillyCharlie Creed-Miles
AngusJon Morrison

The Happening

IMDB Rating: 5.40
32759 votes

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A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity.
Actors
Elliot MooreMark Wahlberg
JulianJohn Leguizamo
Spencer Breslin

Funny Games U.S.

IMDB Rating: 6.80
4190 votes

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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.
Actors
GeorgeTim Roth
PaulMichael Pitt
PeterBrady Corbet

The Spiderwick Chronicles

IMDB Rating: 7.10
4376 votes

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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.
Actors
Jared Grace/Simon GraceFreddie Highmore
MulgarathNick Nolte
Arthur SpiderwickDavid Strathairn

Raising Arizona

IMDB Rating: 7.50
31003 votes

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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she's barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi's convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.
Actors
H.I. McDunnoughNicolas Cage
Edwina 'Ed' McDunnoughHolly Hunter
Nathan Arizona Huffhines, Sr.Trey Wilson

Near Dark

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6285 votes

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A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
Actors
Caleb ColtonAdrian Pasdar
MaeJenny Wright
Jesse HookerLance Henriksen

Anna Karenina

IMDB Rating: 5.90
1464 votes

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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression...
Actors
Anna KareninaSophie Marceau
VronskySean Bean
LevinAlfred Molina

Teen Wolf

IMDB Rating: 5.30
8111 votes

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Teen discovers that puberty for him means he turns into a werewolf. One of the beneficial side effects is that it also turns him into a top-notch basketball player. But will his notoriety cost him his friends and can he find true love?
Actors
Scott HowardMichael J. Fox
Harold HowardJames Hampton
Lisa 'Boof' MarconiSusan Ursitti
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