Harlan Thrombey ist tot! Und nicht nur das – der renommierte Krimiautor und Familienpatriarch wurde auf der Feier zu seinem 85. Geburtstag umgebracht. Doch natürlich wollen weder die versammelte exzentrische Verwandtschaft noch das treu ergebene Hauspersonal etwas gesehen haben. Ein Fall für Benoit Blanc! Der lässig-elegante Kommissar beginnt seine Ermittlungen und während sich sämtliche anwesenden Gäste alles andere als kooperativ zeigen, spitzt sich die Lage zu und das Misstrauen untereinander wächst. Ein komplexes Netz aus Lügen, falschen Fährten und Ablenkungsmanövern muss durchkämmt werden, um die Wahrheit hinter Thrombeys vorzeitigem Tod zu enthüllen.
Rocker Stefano, Mitte 30, lebt in Rom. Seine Karriere stagniert und seine Freundin betrügt ihn. Grund genug, zu Eltern und Geschwistern nach Rimini zu flüchten. So herzlich der Empfang, so wenig stellt sich die erwartete Harmonie ein. Nicht nur, dass das vom Bruder geführte Familienunternehmen vor dem Ruin steht, auch die Schwester hat ihr Studium geschmissen. So wird der große Bruder unversehens zum Retter in der Not - auch für sich selbst.
Bernardo is an undertaker. He runs his mortuary business in the same house where he resides. In the front, he has his clients. And in the back, his dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths, and the mischievous but nonviolent ghosts that visit on a daily basis. But when a malevolent entity enters the scene, it wreaks havoc on the already fractured household.
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.
Der verwitwete Chinese Chu lebt mit seinem Sohn Alex und dessen kleiner Familie in der New Yorker Vorstadt. Das Zusammenleben der Familie gestaltet sich als schwierig. Alex' Frau Martha ist eine Schriftstellerin mit Schreibblockade, sie fühlt sich durch die täglichen Tai Chi-Übungen des alten Herrn Chu gestört. Kommunizieren können sie nicht miteinander, da Martha kein Chinesisch und Herr Chu kein Englisch spricht. Auch mit seinem Sohn Alex kann er nicht viel anfangen. Nur mit seinem Enkel und mit Frau Chen, einer aus Taiwan stammenden Witwe, versteht sich Herr Chu gut.
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
Haunted by the death of their father and the disappearance of their mother, four children, three girls and a boy, take refuge in an ideal and delirious world while opposing their social environment. With its lively and daring camerawork, The Orphan Muses goes beyond filmed theater and plunges the viewer into the heart of personal and family identity.
Rakesh, a successful architect, falls in love with a girl: Sujata whose father happens to be his own father's business rival. Sujata's father unwittingly assigns Rakesh the contract for building his house. This sets the stage for an entertaining story about the love between two individuals and their efforts to reconcile their families.
A young woman named Cindy returns to her family home after the death of her father and soon realizes that the house holds a terrible secret that puts her and her friends in danger.
When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house, they embark on a magical-realist journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.
A recently divorced father confides to a friend that he's been seeing demons in the family home.
What it is like to have a younger sibling
Emmy Award-winning chronicle of the history of Orchard House, the home in Concord, Massachusetts where Louisa May Alcott wrote and set Little Women.
Cut From Cloth is a short family drama, set on the day of a funeral. After he passes away, three estranged siblings gather round their father's coffin to mourn his death and discuss their large inheritance. But when a knock sounds from within the casket, the siblings need to decide what is more important. - family or fortune?