Family life movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant family life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen, romantic and sentimental films and TV shows about / with family life, family relations, parents and children, youth, couples, teenager, family problems, father son relationship, marriage and lifestyle plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as family life: The Fosters (2013), We Bought a Zoo (2011), Road to Avonlea (1990), The Durrells (2016), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), Kyle XY (2006), A Place to Call Home (2013), Parenthood (2010), The Family Man (2000), Raising Hope (2010).

List of family life movies

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 8.0
 30K
The Fosters (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, melancholic, teen, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, adoption, teenage life, foster child, foster home, gays and lesbians, troubled teen, teenage girl, lesbian mother, family problems, family life, supportive parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: san diego california, usa, california
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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his biology class.
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexual, talky, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loss of virginity, strong sexual content, youth, teenage boy, nudity, sexual relations, masturbation, family life, first sex, sexuality, sexual frustration, explicit sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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 7.0
 151K
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: single father, zoo, happy ending, animal, children, father son relationship, tiger, little girl, starting over, family life, countryside, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Road to Avonlea (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While there, she must adjust to life in the small rural town of Avonlea, learn to cope with her ...
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, soap opera ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night
Plot: family life, small town, heroine, uncle niece relationship, teacher, parents and children, friends, couple relations, countryside, friendship, mischievous children, school ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, turn of the century
Place: canada
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 8.2
 14K
The Durrells (2016)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, exciting, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: greek island, province, friendship, family life, parents and children, island, expatriate, culture shock, dead husband, world war one, changing lives, financial problem ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1935
Place: greece, mediterranean sea
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Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: large family, blended family, family relations, parenthood, mischievous children, wedding, parents and children, opposites attract, siblings relations, children, family life, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
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 7.5
 31K
Kyle XY (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A suburban family that takes in a mysterious teen naive to the world around him. As Kyle begins to show signs of brilliance, solving the mystery of his origin and potential abilities becomes the family's mission.
Style: entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, thrilling ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: supernatural ability, experiment, foster child, supernatural, genius, teenage life, mysterious character, self discovery, teenage love, fish out of water, teaching the ways of the world, secret organization ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa
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A Place to Call Home (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, ...
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, society, love and romance, family life, starting over, social differences, forbidden love, family secret, country estate, family relations, nurse, male female relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: australia
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 8.3
 37K
Parenthood (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood tells of the Braverman clan which consists of an older couple, their four children and their families.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family drama, family life, parenthood, teenage pregnancy, responsibility, autism, family relations, large family, couple relations, adolescence, marital problem, supportive parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 6.8
 119K
The Family Man (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style: feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: christmas, midlife crisis, road not taken, destiny, parallel universe, life changing experience, alternate reality, lost love, fish out of water, lifestyle change, time travel, family relations ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s ...
Place: new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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 8.1
 40K
Raising Hope (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but well-intentioned family for ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, hilarious ...
Plot: youth, family life, babies and infants, living with parents, eccentric family, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, single father, family relations, stupidity, parenthood, immature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style: sad, touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, family drama, terminal illness, sisters, lawyer, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, leukemia, family relations, family life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa, montana, los angeles
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Lipstick Jungle (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio. The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also ...
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot: family life, city life, office, couples, friends, ambition, workplace intrigue, thirtysomething life, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, career woman ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Desperate Housewives (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama-mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired Sundays at 9 P.M. Eastern/8 P.M. Central, on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012. ...
Style: witty, humorous, sexy, soap opera, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: housewife, female friendship, neighbor, suburban life, family life, social relations, investigation, lifestyle, friends, couple relations, family relations, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, children, confined, survival, siblings relations, family life, estate, old mansion, child abuse, life is a bitch, danger, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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 6.9
 67K
Overboard (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: memory loss, rich woman poor man, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, parents and children, carpenter, pretend relationship, love, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: oregon
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Switched at Birth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case ...
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, relatives, social relations, teenage girl, teenage life, school, switched at birth, youth, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, kansas city
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The Other Woman (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family life, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, death in the family, dishonesty, dealing with death, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, woman, making love, women ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
Style: funny, light, romantic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: workplace, family life, relationship vs career, workaholic, gender, pregnancy, parents and children, workplace situations, ambition, in-laws, best friend, couples ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.4
 10K
Endless Love (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Two separate worlds lie on two sides of the road in a seaside town. Both too close and way too far from each other. What happens when two young people from these worlds fall in love? Kemal is one of the three children of a moderate family that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: true love, forbidden love, tragic love, blackmailer, family life, life, beefcake, love and romance, life is a bitch, violent husband, brutality, life philosophy ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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 8.3
 188K
Californication (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
Style: sexy, witty, humorous, cynical, erotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, lifestyle, writers, writer's life, lust, dark humor, sexual relations, family life, couples, addiction, female nudity, nudity ...
Time: y2k, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, new york
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Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: youth, siblings relations, prodigy, eccentric family, social satire, teenage life, suburban life, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, suburbs, teenager, family life ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, nova scotia
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Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1991, 1850s
Place: normandy, france, europe, switzerland
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 6.0
 273K
Grown Ups (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy, teen ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens
Plot: vacation, friendship, kids and family, friends, old friends reunited, family life, foul language, childhood, buddy, reunited friends, silly humor, breast feeding ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, year 1978, 70s ...
Place: boston, usa
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: family life, sibling rivalry, family relations, high school life, teenage life, social misfits, siblings relations, parents and children, friends, child, middle school, diary ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
 131
Ancestral Land (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story: An epic family saga set in the Russian Urals before, during and after the Second World War. The story is centered on the Morozov family - Aleksey, Stepan, Aliona and Varvara - two brothers and two sisters, with a multitude of complex relationships ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: life is a bitch, family life, world war two, war, brother sister relationship, wartime, dysfunctional family, wartime life, family problems, relationship problems, reconciliation, family relations
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 7.3
 10K
Mr. Pickles (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: The Goodman family lives with their lovable pet dog, Mr. Pickles, a deviant border collie with a secret satanic streak.
Style: adult animation, bloody, not serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: satanic ritual, vicious, dark humor, cartoon dog, family life, pets, small town life, satire, small town, perversion, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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You Should Have Left (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear ...
Style: suspense, mystical, splatter, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murderer, drowning, house, family life, time loop, jealous husband, nightmare, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, missing child, husband wife conflict, countryside ...
Time: 2020s
Place: wales, london, mexico, new york
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 6.4
 10K
Liv and Maddie (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The exploits of identical twins Liv, a former television star back home in Wisconsin and in the process of adding movie star to her credits, as well as beginning to focus on her music career, and Maddie, an outstanding student and basketball ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, sentimental, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, teenage girl, popularity, parents and children, siblings relations, teenager, youth, favoritism among siblings, high school life, twins, high school, twin sister ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
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My Best Friend (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lorenzo is a teenager who lives in Patagonia. One day his family receives in his house to Caíto, the son of some friends who are going through a serious family situation and can not take care of him. He is a complicated kid and has difficulty ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, cute, lgbt cinema, crying ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teenager, teenage protagonist, teen angst, coming of age, gay interest, family life, acceptance, friendship between boys, teenager, teenage love ...
Place: argentina
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