Family saga movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant family saga movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out family saga, realistic, serious, touching, captivating and epic films and TV shows about / with family relations, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, society, love, parents and children, marriage, father son relationship, love and romance and death plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in USA, UK, Finland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as family saga: The Forsyte Saga (2002), The House of the Spirits (1993), The Restaurant (2017), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Hotel Adlon (2013), Black Raven (2001), The Manns (2001), The Thorn Birds (1983), Manure and Gillyflowers (1978).

List of family saga movies

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The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story: In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style: period piece, family saga, realistic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: high society, love affair, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, power relations, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 1880s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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The House of the Spirits (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Denmark, Portugal
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, family saga, melancholic ...
Plot: civil war, magic realism, farm, justice, dysfunctional family, politics, coup d'etat, rape, family relations, dictatorship, generation gap, parents and children ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 1930s, 1920s, 70s ...
Place: latin america, chile
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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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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, spiritual ...
Plot: peasant, farm, countryside, village, family relations, clergy, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, hide and seek, parent child relationship, family problems ...
Time: 1900s, year 1978, 19th century, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots is a new television drama from the prolific writer, director and producer Tyler Perry. The show follows the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in ...
Style: soap opera, serious, touching, emotional, family saga ...
Plot: rich and poor, master and servant, social differences, african american protagonist, family life, society, boss and employee, family relations, power relations, black, class differences, family problems ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
Style: family saga, costume drama, stylized, historical drama, spiritual ...
Plot: love affair, rich and poor, love and romance, law, love, spirituality, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, unfulfilled love, parents and children, intrigue, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
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 7.4
 1K
Hotel Adlon (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: A three-part German mini-series about the luxury hotel in Berlin.
Style: family saga, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: hotel, german history, hotel owner, world war two, world war one, luxury hotel, family business, family drama, friendship, youth, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, 1950s, 1940s, 1910s ...
Place: berlin germany, switzerland
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 6.4
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Black Raven (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Two women who bear the same name and born of the same father, but do not know each other and do not suspect their kinship. However, their meeting is predetermined...
Style: family saga, depressing, melancholic, touching, captivating ...
Plot: witchcraft, women, love triangle, deception, family relations, social relations, family drama, adultery, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, family problems ...
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 8.2
 710
The Manns (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
Style: family saga, captivating, realistic, serious, saga ...
Plot: world war two, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, state affairs, political unrest, parents and children, artists and showbiz, writer's life, family relations, siblings relations, family life, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 50s, 90s, 70s ...
Place: germany, switzerland
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The Thorn Birds (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 460 min.
TV show
Story: This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father ...
Style: sentimental, touching, family saga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, tragic love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, priest, family life, friendship, society ...
Time: 50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: australia
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Manure and Gillyflowers (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A story about the life of Maximiliane Irene von Quindt based on a classic novel by Christine Bruckner .
Style: family saga
Plot: world war two, nobility, skinny dipping, female nudity, world war one, grandfather granddaughter relationship, strong female lead, strong female character, german history, fictional biography, female full frontal nudity
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 7.4
 63K
Downton Abbey (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the ...
Style: family saga, sincere, captivating, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: estate, aristocracy, servant, intrigue, butler, country estate, domestic servant, class differences, british royal family, closeted homosexual, country house, aristocrat ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, london
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Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The residents of Downton Abbey go on a new adventure that takes them to a Spanish villa.
Style: sincere, family saga, period piece, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: aristocracy, king, abbey, country house, high society, mother daughter relationship, royalty, earl, inheritance, queen, staff, domestic servant ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england, britain, french riviera, london, south of france ...
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 5.5
 1K
Eternity (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
Style: sincere, touching, melancholic, sentimental, family saga
Plot: eternity, birth, family relations, family history, love, life & death, family values, loss of child, loss of spouse, storytelling, widow, beauty ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century
Place: paris france
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 8.3
 36K
Poldark (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style: captivating, family saga, realistic, saga, costume drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: countryside, love affair, poverty, estate, society, rich and poor, love and romance, couple relations, master and servant, social differences, family relations, village life ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era, 1800s ...
Place: england, cornwall, britain
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The Best of Youth (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 374 min.
Story: Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic 'La Meglio Gioventu' follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: idealism, society, couples, cafe, sister in law sister in law relationship, friendship, mental illness, storytelling, musician, protest, politics, police brutality ...
Time: 60s, 80s, year 2003, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: italy, lebanon, europe, turin italy, denmark ...
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On the Black Hill (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, touching, family saga
Plot: twins, landscape, land dispute, farm, couples, family relations, politics, love and romance, siblings relations, love, reading a newspaper aloud, rural setting ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: wales, england
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The French Dream (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 186 min.
TV show
Story: They had a dream is above all an imaginary story based on solid facts. It is both a social and a fictional saga, exploring the interconnected lives of two Guadeloupian families to reveal hidden or obscure aspects of French society. In the Sixties, ...
Style: family saga, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: racial issues, love, black white relations, historical event, interracial relations, family relations
Time: 90s, 2000s, 80s, 60s, 70s
Place: france
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August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
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 7.5
 16K
Sunshine (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK, USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style: costume drama, erotic, family saga, sad, saga ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, fascism, sex scene, nazi, anti semitism, society, political unrest, siblings relations, family life, politics, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, eastern europe, israel, serbia, sarajevo ...
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Under the North Star (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 193 min.
Story: Perustuu Väinö Linnan samannimiseen romaanitrilogiaan, joka on yksi suomalaisen kirjallisuuden tärkeimmistä teoksista.
Style: family saga, epic, serious, captivating
Plot: revolution, class differences, rebel, trial, working class, class conflict, family history, socialism, war crime, socialist, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, turn of the century, 1890s
Place: finland
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 5.5
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The Matriarch (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendents of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo , Repe and equally silly son-in-law ...
Style: family saga, road movie, captivating, touching
Plot: strong female lead, strong female character, family relations, matriarchy, criminal gang, family honor, past, generation, ancestry, male female relationship, honor, eviction ...
Place: eastern europe
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 6.1
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I, Mattoni (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story: Biographical series about Heinrich Mattoni, capitalist of the early period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, founder of the world-famous mineral water bottling company, a man of a dynamic and controversial fate.
Style: family saga, disturbing, semi autobiographical, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: self made man, husband wife relationship, flashback, ambitious man, mogul, male female relationship, businessman, family business, historical figure, lifestyle, historical character, business tycoon ...
Place: central europe, czech republic
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style: talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot: lawyer, culture clash, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, cancan dance, family relations, dysfunctional family, sorority, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: usa, missouri, kansas city, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
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 7.9
 2K
Siberiade (1979)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 275 min.
Story: The evolution of a nation during six decades of turbulent history is dramatized via two families from opposing classes.
Style: family saga, serious, realistic, captivating, epic
Plot: parents and children, tragic love, culture clash, homecoming, wartime life, swamp, taiga, village life, political unrest, family life, revolution, forbidden love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 60s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: siberia, soviet union, ussr, russia
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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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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, albuquerque new mexico ...
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Colorado Avenue (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the early 1900s, emigrant Hanna returns from Colorado to Finland. In America she was known as Dollar-Hanna, but in Finland she has to endure the Civil War and live through the prohibition. Hanna's independent spirit will guide her.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious, family saga ...
Plot: family relations, single parent, love and romance, society, hopes, getting home, mother daughter relationship, generation gap, old love, independent woman, civil war, death of husband ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century
Place: eastern europe, finland, colorado
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Under the North Star II (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Style: suspense, psychological, touching, family saga, epic
Plot: family relations, world war two, communism, soldier, village life, family history, village, communist, post war, working class, grudge, lower class ...
Time: 1900s, 1940s, 1920s, 1930s
Place: finland
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Return of the Mafia (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 10 years after "Marrying the Mafia 1". The three J's established an architecture company and have become well-known business. They hold pens instead of fists in their hands but things still happen around them and now even bother their ...
Style: suspenseful, family saga, tense, suspense, humorous ...
Plot: gangster, parents and children, family values, organized crime, family relations, family business, murder, crime boss, betrayal, criminal heroes, violence, crime family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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