Eccentric family movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant eccentric family movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, feel good, dark comedy, funny, realistic and not serious films and TV shows about / with eccentric family, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, disorder, teenage girl and satire plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
eccentric family
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eccentric family movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as eccentric family: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Mockingbird Lane (2012), Daria (1997), Blandings (2013), Dark Shadows (2012), Addams Family Values (1993), Knives Out (2019), My Little Princess (2011), Dogtooth (2009), Mental (2012).

List of eccentric family movies

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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of ...
Style: dark comedy, funny, humorous, talky, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentricity, eccentric family, writers, forbidden love, parents and children, deadpan, incest, uptight character, reconciliation, love, satire ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Mockingbird Lane (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story: Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vamp. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and Lily and Herman's only child, Eddie, has his werewolf ...
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, captivating, gothic ...
Plot: werewolf, eccentric family, vampire, imaginary, parents and children, supernatural, family relations, freak, suburbs, old mansion, dragon, mind control ...
Place: usa
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 8.1
 27K
Daria (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Daria Morgendorffer lives with her stressed-out, career-fixated parents, Helen and Jake, and her relentlessly cute and popular little sister, Quinn. Daria and her fellow outcast and best friend, Jane Lane, attend Lawndale High School where they are ...
Style: clever, adult cartoon, witty, cynical, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: sarcasm, loner, social misfits, high school life, everyday life, antisocial behavior, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, school, lifestyle, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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 7.1
 1K
Blandings (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Mark Williams. The ...
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: eccentric family, english countryside, lord, master and servant, butler, family relations, estate, castle, power relations, pig, aristocrat, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe
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 6.2
 279K
Dark Shadows (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, parody, humorous, gothic horror ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, date night
Plot: vampire, witch, eccentric family, immortality, dark humor, witchcraft, magic, supernatural, curse, werewolf, ghost, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: new england, usa, liverpool, england, maine
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Addams Family Values (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to ...
Style: gothic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: goth, eccentric family, halloween, farce, nanny, dysfunctional family, camp, thanksgiving, husband wife relationship, summer camp, youth, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: hawaii
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 7.9
 766K
Knives Out (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his ...
Style: atmospheric, exciting, captivating, detective, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens, boys' night ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, murder, death, murder investigation, mansion, mystery killer, eccentric family, large family, plot twist, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, massachusetts
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My Little Princess (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her ...
Style: serious, sad, captivating, sincere, spooky ...
Plot: traumatic childhood, mother daughter relationship, pedophilia, innocence lost, mother daughter conflict, art, eccentric family, nymphet, female photographer, psychology, bad mother, macabre ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.2
 109K
Dogtooth (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style: disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, cat, child abuse, brother sister incest, eccentric family, overprotective father, confined, sexual awakening, perversion, greek ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: greece, europe
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 6.1
 5K
Mental (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Style: humorous, black comedy, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eccentric family, dysfunctional family, mental illness, hitchhiker, nanny, satire, suburbs, family life, youth, siblings relations, strong female presence, dark humor ...
Time: y2k, year 2012, 21st century
Place: australia
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Death at a Funeral (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New ...
Style: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: eccentric family, death, dysfunctional family, family relations, black, family gatherings, death in the family, male nudity, silly humor, dishonesty, gay father, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Addams Family (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Uncle Fester has been missing for 25 years. An evil doctor finds out and introduces a fake Fester in an attempt to get the Addams Family's money. The youngest daughter has some doubts about the new uncle Fester, but the fake uncle adapts very ...
Style: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: goth, dark humor, halloween, supernatural, eccentric family, childhood, supernatural ability, witch, fantasy world, family relations, husband wife relationship, mansion ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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The Addams Family (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they ...
Style: gothic, sitcom, dark fantasy, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, preschool, horror for children
Plot: eccentric family, dark humor, satire, supernatural, goth, living with parents, society, supernatural ability, family life, couple relations, culture clash, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time: 20th century, future, 60s
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 7.4
 11K
Grey Gardens (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens." As their wealth ...
Style: touching, realistic, compassionate, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: eccentric family, eccentricity, dysfunctional family, depression, betrayal, eviction, family life, family relations, parents and children, oldtimer, elderly, women ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place: new york, usa
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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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The New Addams Family (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The New Addams Family is an American-Canadian sitcom that aired from October 1998 to August 1999 and aired on YTV in Canada and Fox Family in the United States. It was produced by Shavick Entertainment and Saban Entertainment as a new version of the ...
Style: gothic, humorous, not serious, dark, spooky ...
Audience: kids, teens, horror for children
Plot: eccentric family, supernatural, family relations, dark humor, dysfunctional family, parents and children, supernatural ability, youth, addams family, butler, vampire, holiday ...
Time: 90s
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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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 8.5
 478K
Modern Family (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5378 min.
TV show
Story: The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, mockumentary, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, everyday life, family relations, generation gap, family life, adolescence, gay adoption, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, blended family, gay couple ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, southern california, usa, los angeles
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 7.0
 34K
8 Women (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
Style: black comedy, satirical, dark comedy, talky, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: women, multiple suspects, dysfunctional family, christmas, murder, eccentric family, estate, lesbian, suicide, family relations, maid, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, year 2002, 20th century, 50s
Place: france, europe
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A girl, sent by her parents to live with her two eccentric aunts, finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot: witch, teenage girl, high school, wizards and magicians, magic, eccentric family, witchcraft, supernatural ability, aunt niece relationship, teenager, teenage life, social relations ...
Time: 90s
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 7.0
 173K
Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
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 6.3
 16K
Greedy (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, surprise ending, feel good ...
Plot: wealth, greed, millionaire, uncle nephew relationship, bowling, eccentric family, family relations, last will and testament, family gatherings, vandalism, grandfather, parents and children ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: washington d.c.
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The Addams Family (2019)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA, UK, Vietnam
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Plot unknown
Style: gothic, humorous, funny, 3d animation, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: halloween, goth, eccentric family, dark humor, mansion, old dark house, family relations, eccentricity, strange person, father son relationship, butler, addams family ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: new jersey
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Vampire Sisters (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Keeping secrets can be difficult, especially when you’re a twelve-year-old half-vampire moving from Transylvania to a new life in Germany. Going to school, making new friends and fitting in — it’s all tough when you can’t just be yourself. ...
Style: semi serious, light, entertaining, gothic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, youth, friendship, friends, first love, female vampire, child vampire, superhuman powers, sister sister relationship, imaginary, eccentric family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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The Big Wedding (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, funny, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, family gatherings, couples, marriage, family relations, parents and children, family reunited, family feud, in-laws, eccentric family, couple relations, adoption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Haunted Hathaways (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: "The Haunted Hathaways" follows the adventures of a not-so-typical blended family. When Michelle Hathaway relocates to New Orleans, LA., to open a bakery with her daughters Taylor and Frankie, they quickly learn that life in the “Big ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, feel good, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: ghost, supernatural, family life, eccentric family, youth, parents and children, haunted house, haunted, spirit, lifestyle, paranormal activity, kids and family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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Wedding Crashers (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random ...
Style: funny, sex comedy, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: wedding, seduction, fiance fiancee relationship, wedding party, love and romance, looking for sex, marriage, love story, stereotypes, twists and turns, party, friends ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa, salt lake city utah, denver colorado, vermont ...
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience: date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, meet the parents, eccentric family, parents and children, father in law son in law relationship, wedding, farce, culture clash, family bonds, parenthood, ex law enforcer ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, chicago
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 8.5
 144K
Schitt's Creek (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, ironic, light ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot: small town, motel, life turned upside down, lgbtq, riches to rags, family relations, class differences, eccentric family, parents and children, cafe, friendship, gay relationship ...
Time: 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie comic book series of the same name. The show premiered on September 27, 1996 on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its "T.G.I.F." line-up. The show stars Melissa Joan ...
Style: feel good, not serious, sitcom, humorous, supernatural thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: witch, high school, supernatural, magic, female protagonist, witchcraft, teenage girl, cat, hereditary gift of witchcraft, supernatural ability, wizards and magicians, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
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