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Plot Summary:
Kadhaveedu' is a dedication to Malayalam being accorded the Shresthabhaasha (Malayalam has been declared a Classical language in 2013) status and presents, as a single entity, three different stories penned by the doyens of Malayalam literature - Vaikkom Muhammed Basheer, M T Vasudevan Nair and Madhavikutty. The film is an anthology with adaptations of stories written by renowned Malayalam fiction writers Basheer, M. T. Vasudevan Nair and Madhavikutty (Kamala Surayya).. The stories have been tweaked to fit in a modern setting and the script has been conceived by the director himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Family
Country: India
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling, anthology
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You Are My Home (2020)
Plot Summary:
This drama follows the relationship of a heartbroken woman and a young immigrant girl who has lost her mother at the border, coming together just before Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Family
Country: USA, Italy, UK, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, disturbing, talky
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My Mom's Letter from Heaven (2019)
Plot Summary:
A single father has a fractious relationship with his rebellious teenage daughter. When a lost letter written to the daughter from her dying mother is miraculously found, everything starts to turn around.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Te presento a Laura (2010)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll die: April 30. What Laura doesn't know is what she'll do from now till then, and thus she enrolls in a group of optimists, which she finds pathetic but fun. In that group she writes a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some that mean a lot and some that are a lot of fun. The first thing on her list is to save a life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sisters of the Groom (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah needs to impress a corporate bigwig in order to help her sister's catering business, she finds herself agreeing to be his son’s pretend date to a family wedding.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed (2019)
Plot Summary:
An engaged couple adopts two puppies but when they decide to split up, the puppies hatch a plan to bring the two back together.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Cookie Mobster (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young mob member goes into the Witness Protection Program and settles into a quiet suburban village, where he falls for a local woman and gets involved with cookie-making fund-raising for her daughter's scout troop while dodging his former associates who have tracked him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Love You Save (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alexis is a successful single mother who has it all - except happiness. When a down and out stranger enters her family's world, a secret is revealed that will change all of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, christian film
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Undercover Angel (2017)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a fresh start, Robin, a recently divorced mother moves to a small town with her daughter, Sophie where she has purchased a fixer-upper. Needing help with the renovations on her new home, she hires a handyman, Henry her meddling guardian angel, who helps her with so much more.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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All Kinds of Daughters-in-Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hwang Eun Byul, a ghostwriter for a publishing company, and Hwang Geum Byul, a leader for the PR department at a fashion company, are fraternal twin sisters, but their mother has always favored Geum Byul. The sisters end up marrying into rivaling families, and the story follows them as they try to work through their conflicts with communication and a positive attitude.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Lift Me Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young lady, who recently lost her mother, faces the challenges of high school and her very strict step-father. Through personal growth, and an amazing dedication to dance, she learns to find the peace and happiness of family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Henry proposes it looks like Rebecca will get her fairytale ending until her daughter invites a visitor from her past to the ranch that will change the Petersons and Landsburgs forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Healing Garden (2021)
Plot Summary:
An aging military chaplain and a young girl from a broken home join forces to plant a miracle garden touched by God. The Healing Garden is a faith-based film, laced with warmth and comedy. It celebrates the healing of families and communities through faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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I Do, They Don't (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Vegas wedding spells trouble back at home, as Carrie (Bissett) and Jim (Estes) each break the news to their kids. Can the newlyweds -- and their new household -- survive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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When Duty Calls (2015)
Plot Summary:
When newlyweds, Ellie and Martin, both volunteer at their local police department they find themselves tangled in a criminal case.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Sita (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sita is a materialistic woman who only cares about materialistic gains and nothing else. MLA Basava Raju lusts for her and wants her to give him what she promised him for helping her. The villain of their tale is Ram, a man who’s way too innocent for his own good. How does Ram help Sita out of the fix she’s in forms the crux of the story.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Snatched from Mommy (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth and her husband are basking in the glow of being new parents. When Elizabeth starts a mommy blog to document the experience, her baby Evan is kidnapped and she realizes danger lies much closer than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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Pegasus: Pony With a Broken Wing (2019)
Plot Summary:
It’ll take a miracle to save the Killian family’s ranch… but miracles come in all shapes and sizes. Just as a greedy developer plans to take over their ranch, tween girl Sydney Killian and a neighbor boy find a mysterious pony with an injured wing. As they secretly heal the creature, they find the pony’s magical powers could change their fortunes forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Race To Win (2016)
Plot Summary:
After losing her father, a young women must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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Christmas vs. The Walters (2021)
Plot Summary:
Diane Walters, an over-burdened mother of two with a third child on the way, strives to create the perfect Christmas while her loving but dysfunctional family falls apart around her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, independent film
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Heaven Sent (2016)
Plot Summary:
As Christmas approaches, the end is near for Billy and Marie's marriage until an eight-year-old runaway angel from heaven takes it upon herself to rekindle the love they once shared.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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A Loving Husband (2016)
Plot Summary:
Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Yohei discovers that all’s not well in his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Foreign Bodies (2013)
Plot Summary:
Antonio and Pietro, a man and his child, alone in Milan to fight against illness. Pietro has a brain cancer, to move from South to North Italy seems to be a chance, maybe salvation. Jaber, fifteen years old, lives in Milan with a group of fellow countrymen. He's just arrived in Europe, with other immigrants escaping from North Africa, and from the clashes born with Arab Spring. The hospital, a city within a city, where everyone is forced to remain: Antonio to heal Pietro, Jaber to assist Youssef, his best friend. The disease is the pretext for a meeting between Antonio and Jaber, two scared and lonely souls, "foreign bodies" that are facing pain, insecurity and illegal employment, which will be setting of a changing story. Antonio will experience on his own skin, that pain has no distinctions of color, language, origin, religion or social status. And when for Antonio and Pietro will come the time to come back home, Jaber will seems less foreigner than before, the departure will be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Sisters-In-Law at War (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters-in-law live as neighbors in the same apartment building with the mother-in-law who promised to give a beautiful sea-view penthouse to the one who delivers the first grandchild. A battle of egos erupts on social media.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, captivating
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Family Camp (2022)
Plot Summary:
When workaholic Tommy's wife insists that he spend more time with his family, he agrees to sign up for Family Camp. What Tommy didn't count on was being forced to share a yurt at camp with the larger-than-life Sanders family.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Our Sister's Soulmate (2020)
Plot Summary:
27 year old Adachi Momoko lost both her parents in an accident when she was in third year high school. She then gave up going to college and has been working at a home centre for the past nine years while supporting her three younger brothers who are now 20, 17, and 14 year old respectively.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Family
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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A Mrs. Miracle Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a family faces loneliness and loss of faith, Mrs. Miracle swoops in to renew their Christmas Spirit, and they experience a holiday of heavenly proportions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Room(h)ates (2017)
Plot Summary:
Delphine and Yvan divorce. While his financial situation does not allow him to find a home, Yvan remembers that he owns 20% of his ex-wife's house. He then returned to live with Delphine, in his 20%. The two ex will discover the joys of forced housemates.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mark & Russell's Wild Ride (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mark is having that dream moment when Ashley, the most popular girl in his class, asks HIM to drive her to an exclusive pool party. Mark's excitement comes to a quick halt when he comes down from cloud nine and remembers one minor detail - he doesn't have his driver's license! He's tried five times and five times has failed. He needs to make this happen! And Glenn Bufferton, known for easy testing, is just the DMV instructor to give Mark his driving street cred. Or. so he thinks! On the verge of road warrior victory, Mark's plans are thrown off course when Glenn learns that his wife is leaving him. A woeful DMV instructor makes for a negative test outcome. So with his license on the line, Mark agrees to help Glenn rescue his marriage. With his vertically-challenged best friend Russell in tow, the trio hit the road on a cross-town adventure that may make survival the biggest test of all!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny
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Every Other Holiday (2018)
Plot Summary:
Recently separated parents Tracie and Rick spend every other holiday with their young daughters Harper and Ava. But this Christmas, the girls have only one thing on their wish lists — to spend Christmas with both Mom and Dad at Tracie’s family farmhouse. The temporary reunion will be no walk in the park for Tracie and Rick, but perhaps this Christmas gathering can help rekindle the lost romance between the two and make their daughters’ greatest wish come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, semi serious, thrilling
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
Plot Summary:
Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, captivating, disturbing