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After a terrible streak, the Briones family decides to return to their hometown, Villanueva de los Molinos, that rural arcadia where streams of honey flow and harmony is the currency among its people. Or not. Once there, Santiago, the head of the family, accompanied by his children Damián, Antoñito, Pólar, and Rosendo, will try to adapt to their new life by doing all kinds of jobs, from agricultural tasks to taking care of the mayor’s elderly mother.
A message has arrived from Kid the Phantom Thief, that he will steal a Japanese sword belonging to wealthy Onoe Family in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Conan and Heiji Hattori, who happened to be in Hakodate, are on the case to capture Kid. Coincidentally the family lawyer of Onoe is found murdered in the warehouse district, apparently slaughtered by a Japanese sword. The suspect is an investor/arms dealer who is said to be after Onoe family’s hidden treasure. In the North among cherry blossoms, the exciting hunt for treasure begins!
A reformed criminal’s attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.
From London’s Royal Court Theatre, acclaimed comedian Ahir Shah dishes on class, family and multiculturalism in the UK from his grandfather’s view.
Samet, who works as a bouncer in a bar, left home after his father abandoned the family years ago. His mother started living with his brother Emre. After a long time, Samet returns home and tells his brother Emre that he has found their father’s whereabouts and suggests they go together to where their father lives. The two brothers embark on a journey to Konya to confront their past. The other protagonist of the story, Ayşe, leads an ordinary life with her banker husband and seven-year-old daughter Ceren. When her daughter starts school, her encounter with the school’s security guard changes their lives. A secret relationship begins between the two. While Ayşe continues this relationship without fear of being caught, things eventually change. The paths of the two protagonists, Samet and Ayşe, will intersect in an unexpected way.
The story of Ellian, a teenager who comes of age using her magical powers to defend her family when the opposing forces of light and darkness threaten to divide her kingdom.
Contact with family members is vital for maintaining the emotional and social ties of those who are deprived of their liberty. Those who have the right to visits and those who have someone to visit them await that moment with hope…
The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family’s home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan’s morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.
When his family is murdered by members of a drug gang, an undercover CIA agent tracks them down, but they escape and flee to their hideout, a fortress in South America. Knowing he can’t count on the local authorities for aid, he calls on one of his fellow CIA agents for help in cracking the fortress, and getting to the gangsters and eliminating them and their leader.
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a young Chilean girl slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Jennifer, a young Jazz enthusiast, is struggling to embrace her love for music while trying to win her mothers approval when she meets the rebellious hippie Stephanie, and the Rock’n’Roll musician Dani, who flip her world inside out and take her on a disco groovin’, rockin’ rollin’ and jazz swinging adventure across the 70s to save the family diner.
Shekhar, a businessman, accidentally kills his associate Amar, and ridden with guilt, decides to watch over Amar’s company and take care of his family and friends. However, he falls in love with Amar’s fiancé Piya – who is to marry tycoon Abhi Gyan to save the company
Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of coping with an adopted child suffering from Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Rome, summer 1943. Four children play war while the bombs of real war explode around them. Italo is the rich son of the Federal, Cosimo has his father in confinement and an atavistic hunger, Vanda is an orphan and a believer, Riccardo comes from a wealthy Jewish family. They are different but they don’t know it and between them “the greatest friendship in the world” is born, impervious to the divisions of history that bloodies Europe. But on October 16 the Jewish boy is taken away by the Germans together with over a thousand people from the Ghetto. Thanks to Italo’s father Federale, the three friends believe they know where he is and, to honor the “spit pact”, decide to leave in secret to convince the Germans to free their friend. Yet another imaginative mission becomes reality, the three children travel alone in an Italy exhausted by war, among disbanded soldiers, deserters, occupying German troops, exhausted and hungry populations.
After a dangerous sea crossing and a stay in a camp in Malaysia, the young Vietnamese Tinh and her family are accepted as refugees in Canada and arrive in Montreal where they begin their new life. But for Tinh, adapting has its share of difficulties.
Alicia Crosby is a hugely successful children’s fashion designer based in Los Angeles. Her personal life is equally successful as Alicia suspects her boyfriend Will Randall is going to pop the question any day now. But first, Alicia must survive meeting Will’s family, which means getting down and dirty in their family’s annual ‘Reunion Races’ where she is up against everyone from Will’s mom, Barb, his dad, Doug, his seemingly sweet Grandma Dorie, to even Will’s ex-girlfriend, Kris.
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn’t. He’d like to retire, but if he left the “family business” to his two idiot sons, they’d be dead in a minute. So he decides to go legit, which convinces everyone that he must be completely off the deep end. To preserve their cushy lives, his dysfuntional family conspires to get him some psycho-therepy. So his boys kidnap a “piasan” shrink and order him to “fix” their father. This film, which premired on Showtime, pre-dated the very similarly plotted “Analyze This” by over a year.
As the Keenans try to bring their family closer together, they unwittingly enter themselves into a game of life or death. With four deranged killers patrolling the halls of their hotel and competing for the most creative kills, the odds are definitely stacked against them.
A woman has ripped off drugs from the New York mob and is returning with her girlfriend to her family’s tavern in Long Island after fifteen years. The family runs a low-level criminal enterprise and she will find that many things have changed and not for the better. She seeks to get cash for the drugs but, not before a deep dark secret puts her on a path of revenge.
It’s 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta (Martin Sheen). But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to impart to his grandson, in this whimsical comedy from the writer of The Bourne Identity.
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family’s harmony.
An investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears. Suspecting the involvement of his wife and their two daughters, he imposes drastic measures at home, causing tensions to rise. Step by step, social norms and the rules of family life are being suspended.
Dominique, a well-trained assassin, flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption. Facing brutal attacks from the police and mafia, Dominique must decide whether to protect herself or an innocent family that has taken her in.
Between 1865 and 1920, Finnish immigrants brought traditional arts to America, including woven and braided rag rugs. As a hallmark of Finnish ethnic culture, rag rugs and their makers hold special places in the hearts of Finnish America. Cultural sociologist Michael Loukinen brings us into the homes and to the workrooms of traditional weavers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He portrays the interwoven world of cultural beliefs, aesthetic practices, and family history that each rug represents. From the treasured family-memory heirloom, from each carefully protected rug to its threadbare, tattered clump on a tractor seat, these rugs are an art form that embodies several Finnish American cultural values.
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
As they try to come to terms with the loss they have experienced, will Dewi and Sena be able to face the mystery of the legacy passed down from their extended family?
When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
November 1st 2007 was ‘All Saints’ Day’, a public holiday in Italy. International student Meredith Kercher’s Italian flatmates were out of town visiting family and fellow student, American Amanda Knox was at her boyfriend’s, Raffaele Sollecito, house. That evening, Meredith went over to see three British friends. That was the last time Meredith was seen alive. This documentary looks at these events.
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother’s death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane’s property to expand his business. When efforts to buy the property are fruitless, the mechanic incites the townsfolk against the strange trio.
Wanda, a single mother with a pregnant daughter, a wayward son, a mother who believes is dying. Barely having time for herself and living to take care of her family but everyone around her doesn’t seem to accept it, why isn’t that enough?
Ravi Kumar is clearly the black sheep of the Kumar family, and has been so for years. He is unemployed, uncouth, and gets into fist fights and trouble all the time. And then a man is killed, and the evidence points towards Ravi, he gets arrested. Although there were witnesses to this murder, no one comes forward to testify in favor of Ravi. The Kumar family are aware of Ravi’s innocence, but watch helplessly as Ravi awaits his sentence, which may send him to the gallows, as now only a miracle can save Ravi. Written by rAjOo
A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can’t “remember” being a father. Nearly twenty years later, his amnesia persists, yet no brain damage or physical cause are ever found. Enthralling and thought-provoking, “Forgetting Dad” offers an award-winning case study of dissociation, parental abandonment, and family enmenshment in mental illness.
Victor, an aimless womaniser seen as a burden by friends and family begins to experience disturbing hallucinations in the wake of a new romantic relationship with a man, Lionel. These apparitions become more visceral as the two become more emotionally attached until it all reaches a breaking point.
Danni Hartford, party planner to the King family, wants to find her sister. Britney, the Kings’ spoiled 15-year-old daughter, wants a horse. On a nearby horse farm, Rachel is treated like a servant by her foster siblings; all she wants is a real family. When all three girls make wishes at the Christmas dance, Britney and Rachel’s souls switch bodies. But the girls soon find their new lives are not exactly what they pictured. When Danni discovers what has happened, she must figure out how to switch the girls back.
A House Named Shahana’ is about Dipa, a divorced woman who lives in a small town in ’90s Bangladesh. The film explores how she overcomes a failed marriage, social taboos and the burden of family honour by the strength of her courage, sense of humour, and fighting spirit.
Between 1955 and 1995, over 70,000 West African children were fostered by white Britons, in a practice known as ‘farming’. Many individuals then had to live, often in silence, with the long-lasting impact of this controversial official policy. Nine of those raised this way were invited to a workshop retreat, under professional guidance, to discuss their experiences. Each take turns delving into their past, revealing the confusion and trauma of dealing with such change at a young age. For many, this marks the first time they have had the opportunity to connect with people who have shared a similar childhood. White Nanny Black Child presents a personal, moving and sometimes unsettling meditation on identity, belonging and the nature of family.
Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate her parents, Bill and Barbara’s 60th Wedding Anniversary. Going home is never easy for Jacki. Amidst the family celebrations she reflects on her life; her story symbolising the strength, dignity and resilience of many Aboriginal people in the face of adversity.
