Family gatherings movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant family gatherings movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching and feel good films and TV shows about / with family gatherings, family relations, parents and children, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, siblings relations, mother son relationship, couple relations and mother daughter relationship plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
family gatherings
TOP 10 movies tagged as family gatherings: This Is Where I Leave You (2014), The Big Wedding (2013), The Inheritance (2011), This Christmas (2007), Holiday Engagement (2011), Death at a Funeral (2007), The Wedding Date (2005), The Dinner (2014), Skylab (2011), Another Happy Day (2011).
Best films
List of family gatherings movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style:
touching, humorous, emotional, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family gatherings, infidelity, homecoming, death of father, children, jewish, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish, eccentric family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 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:
feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
wedding, adoption, marriage, family gatherings, family relations, parents and children, family reunited, family feud, in-laws, couple relations, couples, eccentric family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five ambitious cousins set out on a family reunion during the dead of winter. The purpose of the retreat is to secure their inheritance, a fortune that dates back many generations. Upon their arrival, Uncle Melvin (Keith David) welcomes them with ...
Style:
serious, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
family gatherings, haunted by the past, family relations, escapades, supernatural, survival, estate, curses spells and rituals, graphic violence, murder, mythical creature, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are ...
Style:
light, sweet, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, divorce, redemption, human nature, estrangement, family life, parents and children, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, los angeles, san francisco, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
christmas, family gatherings, estranged father, family relations, homecoming, sibling relationship, holiday, parents and children, brother sister relationship, siblings, family reunited, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ireland, long island
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, most specifically her judgmental mother, Meredith Burns, thus far without success. Part of that approval for Hillary is to marry the right man. That's ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
pretend relationship, christmas, love and romance, wedding, family gatherings, fall in love, couples, disorder, unlikely couple, parents and children, cons and scams, thanksgiving ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style:
humorous, tragicomedy, funny, light, absurd ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, funeral, farce, dark humor, death, secret, british, sarcasm, secrets, adultery, foul language, multiple storylines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, looking for love, happy ending, marriage, unlikely couple, opposites attract, couples, family gatherings, love ...
Place:
europe, london, united kingdom, england, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, talky, tense ...
Plot:
family gatherings, life turned upside down, parents and children, family life, couples, family problems, under the surface, human nature, siblings relations, family in crisis, couple relations, disorder ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that the Skylab space station from NASA will fall on their heads this summer. The meeting turns into a ...
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
nudist, nudist camp, family relations, family gatherings, innocence lost, humour, nude beach, coming of age, youth, parents and children, family life, disco ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, estate, family gatherings, eccentric family, nothing goes right, disorder, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, ex husband ex wife relationship, mental illness, group sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the ...
Style:
cynical, talky, captivating, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Plot:
under the surface, dinner party, friendship, joke, best friends, pregnancy, disorder, friends, family problems, family gatherings, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
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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, absurd, talky, melancholic, not serious ...
Plot:
death, dysfunctional family, family relations, eccentric family, family gatherings, death in the family, male nudity, dishonesty, silly humor, gay father, murder, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, bilingual
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, family tradition, family gatherings, family relations, meet the parents, family feud, couple relations, culture clash, parents and children, class differences, african american, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, massachusetts, new england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, psychological
Plot:
father son relationship, homecoming, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, jealousy, family gatherings, family problems, murder, destiny, parents and children ...
Place:
usa, arkansas, alabama, southern usa, nashville tennessee ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, sexy, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, midlife crisis, opera, gay teenager, human nature, unfulfilled love, doctors and patients, ocean, family problems, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, venice
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
family gatherings, family problems, family relations, couples, pregnancy, ego clash, friendship, disorder, parents and children, humour, kids and family, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, divorce, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, human nature, love and romance, family relations, couples, siblings relations, countryside, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, rome italy, europe, brittany
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two years after the death of his beloved wife, Pat O'Brien (Tommy O’Neil) summons his children back to their homestead in the west of Ireland. Fionn (Liam McMahon) travels from New York, Gareth (Emmett Hughes) from London, and daughter Una ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, sincere
Plot:
family relations, family secret, family gatherings, scandal, love triangle, death of mother, family reunited, rejection, father son relationship, secret, dysfunctional family, family home ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, new york, london
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Christmas is approaching, and Paul's adopted sister Alana is coming home for the holidays. This won't be just a regular family celebration, as she's recently engaged and the weekend will be spent planning her June wedding with her ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, family gatherings, lgbtq, gender, couples, homecoming, cons and scams, christmas, happy ending, geography, gay wedding ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street.But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, not serious, realistic
Plot:
female protagonist, single parent, family gatherings, death in the family, family relations, family life, eccentric family, siblings relations, parents and children, small town life, male female relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, georgia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
depression, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, mental illness, family relations, divorce, character study, psychology, life philosophy, parenthood, family gatherings, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
family gatherings, looking for love, parents and children, lifestyle, midlife crisis, couples, family relations, love and romance, youth, unfulfillment, single parent, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot:
funeral, family gatherings, life turned upside down, family problems, family life, death in the family, family relations, disorder, parents and children, muslim, actress, illegitimate child ...
Place:
morocco
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
eccentric family, family gatherings, nothing goes right, family relations, disorder, couples, fish out of water, couple relations, african american, artist, small town, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, black man, black cast, gangsters, large family, strong female presence, suburbs ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
Style:
atmospheric, lyrical, enigmatic, stylized, sentimental ...
Plot:
art, summer, irreverent, life philosophy, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, uncover truth, artist, family relations, loneliness, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, california, europe, china
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
lesbian, thanksgiving, dysfunctional family, food, culture clash, divorce, family bonds, pregnancy, family problems, family life, family gatherings, americana ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, ireland, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, holiday, dysfunctional family, family relations, couple relations, in-laws, family bonds, marriage, brothers, love, nothing goes right, comedy of errors ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Using a professional grade video camera, a dysfunctional family records their Christmas Day in 1985, which descends into total chaos.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, light, cynical ...
Plot:
christmas, family relations, satire, suburbs, family gatherings, uninvited guest, parents and children, couples, erotica, party, dysfunctional family, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
canada
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