Family
20 films on FilmAbouts return to this idea.
Interstellar
2014 · Sci-Fi / Drama · Christopher Nolan
“Beneath the physics, a film about a parent and child separated by time and trying to speak across it.”
The Shining
1980 · Horror / Drama · Stanley Kubrick
“A haunted-house film in which the haunting is a family already broken before it arrives.”
The Godfather
1972 · Crime / Drama · Francis Ford Coppola
“The youngest son of a crime dynasty is drawn into the family business and slowly becomes the very thing he once rejected.”
Parasite
2019 · Thriller / Drama / Black comedy · Bong Joon-ho
“A poor family infiltrates a wealthy household one job at a time — until the house reveals a secret that turns the scheme upside down.”
Get Out
2017 · Horror / Thriller / Mystery · Jordan Peele
“A young Black man visits his white girlfriend's parents and discovers a conspiracy that turns visitors into prisoners of their own bodies.”
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Crime / Drama · Francis Ford Coppola
“Michael consolidates his empire while his father's rise is told in parallel — two stories about what it costs to protect a family.”
Chinatown
1974 · Neo-noir / Mystery · Roman Polanski
“A private eye hired for an adultery case uncovers a conspiracy over Los Angeles' water — and a crime too deep to fix.”
Star Wars
1977 · Sci-Fi / Adventure · George Lucas
“A farm boy leaves home to rescue a princess and discovers the myth he was born into.”
Raging Bull
1980 · Drama / Sport · Martin Scorsese
“Boxer Jake LaMotta wins in the ring and loses everything outside it.”
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Sci-Fi / Adventure · Irvin Kershner
“The rebels scatter, Luke trains with Yoda, and a confession changes everything.”
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Sci-Fi / Family · Steven Spielberg
“A lonely boy hides a lost alien and learns to say goodbye.”
Scarface
1983 · Crime / Drama · Brian De Palma
“A Cuban refugee builds a cocaine empire in Miami and wants the world.”
Back to the Future
1985 · Sci-Fi / Comedy · Robert Zemeckis
“A teenager travels to 1955 and must make his parents fall in love.”
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · Animation / Family / Fantasy · Hayao Miyazaki
“Two sisters move to the countryside while their mother is ill and meet a forest spirit.”
Goodfellas
1990 · Crime / Drama · Martin Scorsese
“Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster — and the film lets us feel why, until it doesn't.”
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Sci-Fi / Action · James Cameron
“The machine that hunted Sarah Connor returns to protect her son.”
Léon: The Professional
1994 · Crime / Thriller / Drama · Luc Besson
“A lonely hitman takes in a girl whose family was murdered by a corrupt cop.”
Fargo
1996 · Crime / Thriller / Comedy · Joel and Ethan Coen
“A car salesman arranges his wife's kidnapping; a pregnant police chief cleans up the mess.”
Spirited Away
2001 · Animation / Fantasy / Family · Hayao Miyazaki
“A girl must work in a bathhouse for spirits to rescue her parents.”
Oldboy
2003 · Thriller / Mystery / Drama · Park Chan-wook
“Imprisoned for fifteen years without reason, a man is released and given five days to find out why.”
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