Films about dysfunctional families

Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu is a 2026 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film written and directed by Anil Ravipudi. The film is produced by Sahu Garapati and Sushmita Konidela. It stars Chiranjeevi in the titular role, alongside Venkatesh, Nayanthara and Catherine Tresa. The plot follows Shankara Vara Prasad, a national security officer who seeks to protect his estranged wife and children, seeing it as a chance to re-unite with them.

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

Encanto is a 2021 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was directed by Jared Bush, and Byron Howard and written by Charise Castro Smith and Bush, with original songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a score composed by Germaine Franco. The film stars the voices of Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, , Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Carolina Gaitán, Diane Guerrero, and Wilmer Valderrama. Encanto follows a multigenerational Colombian family, the Madrigals, led by a matriarch whose children and grandchildren—except for Mi

1999 US film directed by Sam Mendes

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. The film presents the descent into insanity of a recovering alcoholic and aspiring novelist who takes a job as winter caretaker for a mountain resort hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.

2007 animated film directed by David Silverman

2010 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

2002 animated film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

1983 film directed by Brian De Palma

1982 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson

1998 film directed by Tony Kaye

1998 film directed by Darrell Rooney

1979 film by Robert Benton

2001 film directed by Joe Johnston

2021 film by Cate Shortland

2012 film directed by David O. Russell

2021 animated film by Mike Rianda

2009 animation film directed by Henry Selick

1993 American comedy film directed by Chris Columbus

2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry

2002 film directed by Curtis Hanson

2015 film by Lenny Abrahamson

2006 film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

1977 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

2014 film directed by Richard Linklater

Eraserhead is a 1977 American horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch in his feature-length directorial debut. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians. Shot in black and white and surrealist style, the independent film was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landsca

2003 film directed by Ang Lee

1997 film directed by Tom Shadyac

2010 film directed by David O. Russell

Knives Out is a 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film's eleven-actor ensemble cast is led by Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a famed private detective who is summoned to investigate the death of a bestselling author. Police think his death is a suicide but Blanc suspects foul play and investigates to ascertain the true cause of it. Johnson produced Knives Out with his longtime collaborator Ram Bergman. Funding came from MRC and tax subsidies from the Massachusetts state government.

1993 film directed by Lasse Hallström

2001 film directed by Karan Johar

1999 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

1955 US film directed by Nicholas Ray

1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks

Volver (; ) is a 2006 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave. Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz stars as Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene returns from the dead to tie up loose ends.

1980 film by Robert Redford

1996 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

1968 film directed by Anthony Harvey

2013 film by Rawson Marshall Thurber

1977 film directed by John Badham

1966 film directed by Mike Nichols

2009 film by Lee Daniels

2013 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

1955 film directed by Elia Kazan

2014 film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Frank Coraci

1995 animated film directed by Kevin Lima

2005 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

2016 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum. It stars Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf, a human raised by Santa's elves, who learns about his origins and heads to New York City to meet his biological father. James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Asner and Bob Newhart appear in supporting roles.

1972 film directed by Ingmar Bergman

2019 film directed by Noah Baumbach

2015 film directed by David O. Russell

2011 film by Steve McQueen

1996 film by Jerry Zaks

2013 film directed by John Lee Hancock