A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Det er en historie om en sydstatsfamilie. Sygdom, alkohol og jalousi har ødelagt familien, kærlighed og had ligger ikke langt fra hinanden. På en varm og trykkende sommeraften kommer fortvivlelsen op til overfladen, og der opstår en dramatisk konflikt.
First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany.
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Familien Corleone er en stor, varmhjertet slægt af italiensk herkomst. Samtidig er familiens overhoved, Don Vito, en ledende skikkelse i mafiaen, en "gudfar", hvis magt kun begrænses af hans konkurrenter.
Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.
Gallo Morales is the proud patriach returning home after a seven-year stint for manslaughter. Seeking to re-establish his legendary status as a champion breeder, he comes back for the rooster bred by his father. But it is Hector, his son who inherits the prize-winning bird and neither are about to give in. The fall-out from their conflict has consequences for the whole family, especially for Angela, the sensitive 14-year-old daughter unable to cope with the brutal world that surrounds her and her own emerging womanhood, despite the best efforts of Juana, her strong but long-suffering mother.
Hele den pukkelryggede familien Portokalos bekymrer sig om Toula, som netop har rundet 30 – og stadig er ugift. Toula danser Zorbas dans i sine forældres græske restaurant og med stanken af hvidløgsbrød hængende ved sig sværger hun, at det er tid at komme videre i livet. Da hun, til familiens store fortrydelse, får et job i tantens rejsebureau, møder hun Ian Miller, som hun umuligt kan præsentere for sin far: Ikke nok med at Ian er udlænding, han er også vegetar!
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...
Lindum Svendsen er en rigtig led inspektør på en sort skole i provinsen i 1960'ernes Danmark. En dag kommer den nyuddannede og langhårede Freddie Svale til skolen som lærer. De to har bestemt ikke samme mening om pædagogik, og da Svendsen en dag mishandler eleven Fritz, bliver fronterne for alvor trukket op. Sammen med drengens forældre beslutter Svale at gøre op med inspektørens rædselsregime.
I 80'ernes New York gifter ejendomsinvestor-arvingen David Marks (Ryan Gosling) sig med den smukke men fattige Katie (Kirsten Dunst). De flygter fra byen og familien, men bliver lokket tilbage af Davids far (Frank Langella). Tilbage i New York starter Katie på medicinstudierne og skaber sit eget liv, mens David bliver mere og mere voldelig og kontrollerende. Familiens hemmeligheder begynder at dukke op til overfladen, da Katie pludselig forsvinder sporløst. Da hendes veninde mange år senere findes død, tager en politibetjent og en journalist sagen op igen. Med David som hovedmistænkt, baner hans families hemmeligheder vejen for afsløringen af en rystende sandhed.
In our 3-year marriage, we have fought on every holiday, on parents' birthdays, during ancestral rituals, and even on Christmas. We argue all the time. The tension between my wife and my mother is killing me.
When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.
A Japan-set battle-royale comedy over a vial of sperm is centered around three women on the verge of a nervous breakdown from hearing their biological clock ticking away: a doctor and manager of a sperm bank, Sana Kobayashi, a single mother, Maron Kuribayashi, and an alluring receptionist, Mayumi Kujō. Unknowingly, the three shared a beloved partner and a sperm donor, Makoto, but lost him in a sudden accident. The night of Makoto's funeral they are shocked to discover each other in his room. In a rage of screaming, thrashing, and boasting about their own sexual prowess with Makoto, more fierce emotions erupt once Sana's plan to self-inseminate is exposed, but this leads to unexpected consequences. They affirm their real love for Makoto and reveal his true wishes.
The death of a Burkinabé family’s patriarch and the division of his estate unearths conflict between his heirs and larger questions about inheritance, belonging and the communal customs of West Africa versus Westernized courts.
Long before Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson became a reality TV star, he fell in love with Miss Kay and started a family, but his demons threatened to tear their lives apart. Set in the backwoods swamps of 1960s Louisiana, 'The Blind' shares never-before-revealed moments in Phil's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. This stunning cinematic journey chronicles the love story that launched a dynasty, the turmoil that nearly brought it crashing down, and the hope that rose from the ashes to create a foundation for generations to come.