Movies: Parent child relationship

Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness....

Jelle lives with his father, an old-fashioned organ grinder. Standing in the street, they earn a living grinding the organ Rosalinda, an honest but tedious existence. Adolescent Jelle's loyalty is put to the test when his gabber-house friends expect ...

In seeking to better understand the universe of Sophia, Joana, devoted mother , goes through beautiful sensory experiences...

A mother and son as grapple with the questions of life and death on an inner journey filled with strange stories....

A 13-year-old German boy, Robert, (Max Kullman) sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a local boy (Murat Orasov) who agrees to help him, but they are abandoned by their adult guides and must...

A Garifuna woman returns to Honduras to forget her past and rediscover herself....

The film sensitively portrays the struggles of a father whose main priority in life is the well being of his children, and who is determined to see his children grow up to become decent, successful persons....

New York City is in a panic caused by an insane murderer; Maria, a police officer is entrusted with the case; to do this, she pretends to be a prostitute. One night, she meets a possible suspect who holds her and her partner hostage....

12-year-old Gilles dreams of becoming a professional footballer in the Belgian national squad, playing as a Red Devil at the King Baudouin Stadium. Father Bert supports Gilles through thick and thin: he is not only Gilles' most loyal supporter, but a...

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An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult da...

In a world where about 8 in 10 people posses some kind of super power, Reineldis De La Cruz is a high school senior wanting to pursue hero work. In order to do so, a parental consent form is needed to allow any super children to attend a training aca...

When filmmaker Mari Soppela took her children and husband to live for a year on a sacred mountain in her native Finland, she was fulfilling a lifelong dream to share the arctic wilderness of her childhood with her family. But when years later her chi...

It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes ...

Kam Fan and Wong Ching-ping have a peaceful married life, until Ping's mother is serious ill. They desperately need a large amount of money. Fan tries in vain to raise money, he thus intends to use their daughter's school fees for the medical fees. P...

An enthusiastic three year old child is playing in the grocery store and doesn't wanna leave. Then his young and tired mom just leaves the store without him....

Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son (T...

This poignant documentary from directors Judith Leonard, Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg explores the rich complexity of mother-daughter relationships as told by women themselves in scores of candid interviews. Honoring the sometimes close, sometime...

8-year old Alek's parents are divorced and he lives with his mother. He can feel that after the divorce there has been a big void in her life. He decides to help her by finding a suitable husband. He first decides on an athlete, then a driver but non...

Father Son Run tells the story of Wally & Erik, a father and son trying to make up for lost time by embarking on a cross country motorcycle road trip. Even though Erik has never ridden a motorcycle before in his life....