Family business movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant family business movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, semi serious, humorous and stylized films and TV shows about / with family business, family relations, parents and children, rivalry, family problems, siblings relations, workplace, ambition, brother brother relationship and dysfunctional family plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as family business: Succession (2018), The Restaurant (2017), Yellowstone (2018), The Suicide Shop (2012), Brooklyn Lobster (2005), The Founder (2016), Dallas (2012), The Cobbler (2014), Sunshine Cleaning (2008), The Heirs (2013).

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 8.8
 265K
Succession (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 2409 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Style: emotional, captivating, inspirational, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wealth, family business, business, dysfunctional family, patriarchy, betrayal, father son relationship, dysfunctional relationship, ceo, family drama, rivalry, businessman ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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The Restaurant (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class ...
Style: family saga, captivating, stylized, light, contemplative ...
Plot: family business, restaurant, male female relationship, brother brother relationship, mother son relationship, family relations, sexism, anti semitism, mother daughter relationship, emigrant, world war two, love ...
Time: 50s, post world war two, 60s, 70s, 1940s ...
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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 8.7
 213K
Yellowstone (2018)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, ...
Style: scenic, sad, suspense, tense, neo western ...
Plot: ranch, family business, cowboy, death, cattle ranch, society, family relations, rivalry, dishonesty, old west, violence, killings ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, montana
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The Suicide Shop (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A city where suicide is the only growing business. A shop where you can get everything to cater this urge. In the hand of one family for centuries.. till they get a happy baby. And he has to power to make all around him happy as well.
Style: adult animation, humorous, realistic, semi serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide attempt, family business, dark humor, family problems, changing lives, life turned upside down, suicidal thoughts, depression, family relations, dysfunctional family, hopes, workplace ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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Brooklyn Lobster (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgio's Lobster Farm has been a tradition in Brooklyn for over 65 years. Manned by an eccentric crew and serving the best seafood in the state
Style: emotional, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family business, family relations, save the day, family problems, restaurant, working class, estrangement, parents and children, bank, siblings relations, family in crisis, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
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 7.2
 175K
The Founder (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, realistic, factual, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: business, fast food, businessman, capitalism, rags to riches, greed, money, salesman, ambition, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, biopic ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1929 ...
Place: america, usa, california, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota ...
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 7.2
 11K
Dallas (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: J.R., Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing are all back at Southfork, with plenty of secrets, schemes and betrayals in mind. This time, they're joined by the next generation of Ewings, who take ambition and deception to a new level.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: family business, betrayal, family relations, parents and children, family feud, family secret, oil industry, family problems, uninhibited rivalry, intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, southern usa, usa, dallas texas
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 5.8
 60K
The Cobbler (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, entertaining, stylized, surreal ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: shoemaker, lone hero, supernatural ability, family business, justice, workplace, disorder, body swapping, lifestyle change, self discovery, down on your luck, fashion ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard ...
Style: feel good, dark comedy, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cleaning lady, dysfunctional family, suicide, dark humor, family business, sisters, police investigation, family relations, workplace, family problems, single parent, ambition ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
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 7.5
 13K
The Heirs (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Heirs follows a group of privileged, elite high school students as they are groomed to take over their families' business empires. These wealthy students seem to have everything under control–except their love lives. Kim Tan is heir to the ...
Style: dorama, semi serious, social, uplifting, intense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: high school, rich and poor, love and romance, teenage love, heir, family business, social differences, rich man poor woman, high school life, bullying, poverty, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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Horace and Pete (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 437 min.
TV show
Story: Horace and Pete (stylized as Horace and Pete's Est. 1916) is an American comedy-drama web series created by Louis C.K. starring himself and Steve Buscemi as Horace and Pete, co-owners of an Irish bar, Horace and Pete's.
Style: tragicomedy, ironic, tragic ending, sad, philosophical ...
Plot: family business, pub, parent child relationship, family relations, hopelessness, brothers, mental illness, father daughter relationship, sibling relationship, voodoo, politics, age-gap relationship ...
Place: brooklyn new york city
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Working the Engels (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A family are forced to band together to keep their heads above water when their father and breadwinner passes away, leaving them all in a mountain of debt.
Style: not serious, humorous, sitcom, captivating, realistic
Plot: family business, law firm, eccentric family, parents and children, family relations, family problems, legal, workplace, life turned upside down, workplace situations, family life, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California. The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006, and aired its final episode on May 8, 2011. It aired, for its ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family drama, parenthood, family relations, family business, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, parents and children, siblings relations, family problems, couple relations, love and romance, jealousy ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, pasadena california
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 7.3
 25K
Dynasty (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The reboot follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be ...
Style: artsy, captivating, soap opera, cynical
Audience: teens
Plot: rich, family business, intrigue, family relations, rivalry, twists and turns, love triangle, gay, homosexual, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, dialogue ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
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The Collection (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.
Style: captivating, historical drama, suspenseful, disturbing, entertaining ...
Plot: fashion, fashion designer, family business, post war, brother brother relationship, investigation, murder, designer, rivalry, homosexual, love triangle, talented ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century, 1950s
Place: paris france, france
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You Will Be My Son (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul ...
Style: serious, emotional, suspense, captivating, culinary ...
Plot: wine, favoritism, family business, rivalry, workplace, intrigue, countryside, family problems, introspection, father son relationship, favoritism among siblings, farming ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Christmas by Starlight (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Annie, a lawyer, must help her loved ones this holiday season. Her family’s restaurant, The Starlight Café, is slated for demolition. The heir to the development firm responsible, William, makes her an unlikely proposition: he’ll spare the ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, sweet, inspirational, romantic comedy
Plot: christmas romance, christmas season, christmas, family business, eviction notice, father son relationship, lawyer, cafe, christmas spirit, happy ending, fund raising, hopes ...
Place: chicago
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House of Versace (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Based on Wall Street Journal reporter Deborah Ball’s widely-read book "House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival", the movie brings to light the story of Donatella, who, following the brazen murder of her ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, stylized
Plot: fashion, fashion industry, family business, fashion designer, drug abuse, fashion show, workplace, life is a bitch, family relations, siblings relations, addiction, model ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.4
 8K
Dynasty (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, ...
Style: soap opera, captivating, realistic, serious, retro ...
Plot: family business, intrigue, wealthy family, rivalry, family feud, love triangle, family problems, hypocrisy, love and romance, ambition, blind ambition, snobbism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, colorado, denver colorado
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 9.2
 2.0M
The Godfather (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style: serious, epic, dramatic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, greed, revenge, mob boss, crime family, mobster, cosa nostra, wedding, pride and honor, corruption ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place: italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
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 7.1
 4K
Grand Hotel (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A bold, provocative upstairs/downstairs drama set at the last family-owned hotel in multicultural Miami Beach. Wealthy and beautiful guests bask in luxury, but scandals, escalating debt and explosive secrets hide beneath the picture-perfect exterior.
Style: emotional, captivating, light, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: intrigue, family relations, unlikely couple, secrets, secret, family business, love and romance, parents and children, hotel, motel, deep south
Time: 21st century
Place: miami, florida
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 7.1
 1K
Cane (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cane is an American television drama created by Cynthia Cidre, who also served as executive producer alongside Jonathan Prince, Jimmy Iovine and Polly Anthony. The pilot was directed by Christian Duguay. The show chronicled the lives and internal ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized ...
Plot: family business, intrigue, family values, business venture, family problems, success, ambition, blind ambition, lifestyle, rise to the top, lust, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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100 Bloody Acres (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
Style: humorous, suspenseful, horror comedy, slasher, dark comedy ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, family business, brother, murder, countryside, incest, murderous pair, secret, dark humor, characters killed one by one, survival, socially awkward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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 8.6
 202K
The Bear (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, a young chef from the fine dining world, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death. As Carmy fights to transform the restaurant and himself, his rough-around-the-edges kitchen crew ...
Style: funny, psychological, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: chef, restaurant, family business, food, business, workplace, small business, cooking, getting home, job, cooking and food, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: chicago
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Love at First Fight (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: coming of age, family business, forest, teenage love, love and romance, military, fall in love, couples, disorder, parents and children, summer, women ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, south of france
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Thicker Than Water (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in ...
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: family business, dysfunctional family, family reunited, under the surface, family problems, workplace, estrangement, resort, family secret, inheritance, nordic, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Sentimental Destinies (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: family business, factory, love affair, social differences, divorce, society, fall in love, crumbling marriage, couples, tragic love, clergy, world war one ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929
Place: switzerland, france, paris france, europe
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 7.6
 1K
Crematorium (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 397 min.
TV show
Story: Crematorio is a Spanish TV series written and directed by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo. It is based on Rafael Chirbes' novel of the same name.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: family business, corruption, rise to the top, family life, society, architect, social problems, mogul, family relations, business venture, nordic, economist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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 5.9
 300
Twins (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Twins is an American situation comedy series that first aired on The WB in the United States and on CTV in Canada in September 2005. The series is produced by KoMut Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television. The show was cancelled on ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family business, twins, family relations, fashion, crumbling marriage, rivalry, parents and children, ego clash, workplace, model, mother, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.2
 687
Mafiosa (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: murder, mafia, criminal's revenge, family business, betrayal, drug dealing, gang, family problems, death in the family, gangster, police corruption, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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