Soul Food

6.3

1997

114 mins

ComedyDrama

Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's turn sour when sisters Teri, Bird and Maxine start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.

Crimes of the Heart

Year : 1986Rating : ⭐ 6.1

Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.

The Adults

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.1

Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.

Parenthood

Year : 1989Rating : ⭐ 6.7

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

Wildflower

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 7.4

The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

Sweetie

Year : 1989Rating : ⭐ 6.1

The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, exposing the rotten roots of their family and placing a strain on Kay and Louis’ relationship.

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play

Year : 2002Rating : ⭐ 6.6

The fireworks begin when Madea’s family gathers for her granddaughter’s wedding. As usual, Madea rules the roost, as she and her neighbor, the wacky Mr. Brown, deliver nonstop laughs. Live, love, rejoice...it’s Madea’s Family Reunion!

Our Idiot Brother

Year : 2011Rating : ⭐ 6.1

Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.

American Fiction

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 7.2

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 7.5

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

About Alex

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 6.1

When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.

Family Weekend

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

The Edge of Seventeen

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Year : 1984Rating : ⭐ 6.4

Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150,000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.

Savage House

Year : 2026Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It's not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

Sisters

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.0

Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

Anemone

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 5.8

Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.

Somewhere in Queens

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.3

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

Little Women

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.

Margot at the Wedding

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 5.8

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.

Happiness

Year : 1998Rating : ⭐ 7.4

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.