Films about dysfunctional families

1996 film directed by Danny DeVito

2010 film directed by Greg Berlanti

2009 television film directed by Russell Mulcahy

2016 film by Matt Ross

1956 film directed by Douglas Sirk

Beginners is a 2010 American romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Mills. Based on the coming out of Mills' father at the age 75, five years before his death, it tells the story of a man reflecting on the life and death of his father, while trying to forge a new romantic relationship with a woman dealing with father-issues of her own.

2017 film by Ridley Scott

2016 film by Ben Stiller

1994 film by Curtis Hanson

1998 film by Thomas Vinterberg

1987 film directed by Joseph Sargent

2012 film by Josh Trank

2004 film by Kevin Smith

Biutiful is a 2010 psychological tragedy film directed, produced and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and starring Javier Bardem. The project marks Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros (2000). Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro (who make up the "Three Amigos" with Iñárritu in the film industry) serve as associate producers. The film follows Uxbal, a criminal and father who is diagnosed with prostate cancer and seeks to settle his affairs and responsibilities before he dies. The title is in reference to the phonetic spelling in

2002 film directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz

2015 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

1991 film by Barbra Streisand

2018 film by David Gordon Green

2025 film directed by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky

1995 film directed by Joe Chappelle

2009 film by Nick Cassavetes

2018 film by Felix Van Groeningen

1987 film directed by Danny DeVito

1996 UK film by Mike Leigh

2007 film by Garry Marshall

1969 film by Luchino Visconti

2016 film directed by Dan Mazer

2008 film by Seth Gordon

2013 film by Asghar Farhadi

1999 anime film directed by Isao Takahata

1999 film directed by Bruce Beresford

2011 film by Dennis Dugan

1990 film directed by Mike Nichols

2024 film by Jesse Eisenberg

2010 film by Brian Levant

2006 South Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho

2010 film by John Cameron Mitchell

1994 film by Kim Henkel

2016 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

2022 film directed by Robert Eggers

Monster-in-Law is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed by Robert Luketic, written by Anya Kochoff and starring Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, and Wanda Sykes. It marked a return to cinema for Fonda, being her first film in 15 years since Stanley & Iris in 1990.

Cry-Baby is a 1990 American teen musical romantic comedy film written and directed by John Waters. The film stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, and also features a large ensemble cast that includes Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, and Polly Bergen, with appearances by Troy Donahue, Mink Stole, Joe Dallesandro, Joey Heatherton, David Nelson, Patricia Hearst, and Willem Dafoe. It was Waters' first film following the death of his muse and frequent collaborator Divine.

2002 film by Todd Haynes

2019 documentary film

2006 film by Barry Sonnenfeld

2008 film by Jonathan Demme

2009 film by Yorgos Lanthimos

2017 film directed by Sean Anders

2022 film directed by David Gordon Green

2009 film by Christian Alvart

2008 film by Adam McKay

1974 film by John Cassavetes

2005 American film directed by Brian Levant

1997 film by Paul Schrader

1998 film by Chris Columbus

2004 film directed by Zach Braff

2011 film by Michael Dougherty

2005 film by Noah Baumbach

1992 film by Peter Jackson

Saltburn is a 2023 dark comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Set in Oxford and Northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the University of Oxford who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student, who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.