Family disapproval movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant family disapproval movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, touching, feel good, romantic and sentimental films and TV shows about / with family disapproval, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, love, father son relationship, culture clash, couples, mother son relationship and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, India, Canada and other countries.
family disapproval
TOP 10 movies tagged as family disapproval: Meet the Fockers (2004), 2 States (2014), Say Anything... (1989), Down in the Valley (2005), Meet the Parents (2000), Devdas (2002), Cuckoo (2012), Flowing Waves (2000), Bambi II (2006), The Third Half (2012).
Best films
List of family disapproval movies
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, ridiculous, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
eccentric family, family relations, dysfunctional family, meet the parents, parents and children, jewish, father in law son in law relationship, wedding, farce, culture clash, parenthood, family bonds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, chicago illinois
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26K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
This is a story about a romantic journey of a culturally opposite couple - Krish Malhotra and Ananya Swaminathan. They meet at the IIM-Ahmedabad College and during the program they fall in love. Complications arise after the program comes to an end ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wedding, love, love affair, family feud, couples, meet the parents, society, family disapproval, family gatherings, young love, ethnic slur, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, punjab, asia, delhi, new delhi
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler and high school valedictorian Diane Court is threatened when Diane's overly possessive, disapproving father interferes with their relationship. With a prized scholarship to study abroad ...
Style:
feel good, light, sweet, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
high school, coming of age, teenager, love, youth, opposites attract, couples, love story, cheerleading, first love, family disapproval, graduation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, england, california, washington state, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, sexual content, family disapproval, delusion, cowboy, love and romance, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, suburbs, parents and children, father daughter relationship, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, south dakota, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good ...
Style:
humorous, funny, ridiculous, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, meet the parents, family gatherings, family disapproval, parents and children, marriage, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, love, sarcasm, parenthood, comedy of errors ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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44K
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love triangle, forbidden love, drunkenness, prostitute, hindu, alcoholic, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, tragic love, death of protagonist, courtesan, love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
india, london, kolkata, asia, england ...
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10K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
Plot:
slacker, meet the parents, hippie, family relations, family disapproval, culture clash, newlyweds, couples, disorder, couple relations, misfit, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After a difficult romance in a class-divided society, the love birds find out marriage is not what they thought it would be.
Style:
romantic, touching, sincere, serious
Plot:
social differences, coma, family disapproval, love, troubled marriage, infatuation, car accident, love affair, love and romance, hit and run, fall in love, wedding ...
Place:
india
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11K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Return to the forest and join Bambi as he reunites with his father, The Great Prince, who must now raise the young fawn on his own. But in the adventure of a lifetime, the proud parent discovers there is much he can learn from his spirited young son.
Style:
sincere, feel good, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
animals, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children, talking animals, self discovery, wilderness, forest, deer, friends, family relations, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sport, War
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, captivating, romantic, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
soccer, world war two, true love, holocaust, love affair, human spirit, family disapproval, forbidden love, ambition, championship, against humanity, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, former yugoslavia, macedonia, bulgaria
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Style:
witty, sexy, stylized, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
family relations, high society, culture clash, dysfunctional family, fish out of water, eccentric family, dishonesty, mother in law daughter in law relationship, manipulation, father in law daughter in law relationship, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 60s, 1930s, future
Place:
england, london, europe, france, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, funny, inspirational ...
Plot:
hospital, mistaken identity, medical school, impersonating, starting over, parents and children, ambition, hidden identity, family disapproval, dishonesty, pretense, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, arranged marriage, bittersweet, family disapproval, love and romance, unfulfilled love, family life, desert, looking for love, hopes, self discovery, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions ...
Style:
funny, humorous, sexy, feel good, absurd ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
in-laws, marriage, nothing goes right, family relations, family disapproval, eccentric family, parents and children, youth, disorder, comedy of errors, suburbs, family gatherings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, gay, culture clash, unwanted pregnancy, lgbt, virginity, religion, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, teenage life ...
Place:
los angeles, california, spain, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
TV reporter Shivajirao gets a chance to be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for a day, after being challenged by incumbent Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. After his successful one-day stint, he attempts to get back to his normal life, but it is not ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, political ...
Plot:
politics, election, attempted murder, love and romance, ambition, rise to the top, intrigue, fall in love, political activism, dishonesty, society, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
True love threatens to tear a family apart in this epic Mexican serial set in the 1800s. Rich and beautiful Matilde falls in love with Adolfo, but her mother, Augusta, disapproves of the relationship when she learns Adolfo is poor. Augusta forces ...
Style:
serious, stylized, emotional, realistic, contemplative
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, bankruptcy, power of love, forbidden love, love triangle, against the odds, social differences, family relations, couples, society, intrigue, inheritance ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, compassionate, intense ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
interracial relations, racism, culture clash, miscegenation, african american, doctor, liberal, interracial marriage, prejudice, widower, father daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, hawaii
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, humorous, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
overprotective parent, father son relationship, respect, adulthood, maturity, family relations, self fulfillment, self discovery, family disapproval, fall in love, parents and children, arranged marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
18 to Life is a Canadian television sitcom that debuted on January 4, 2010, on CBC Television. The series is shown in Quebec on Vrak.TV with the title Majeurs et mariés.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
newlywed, young adult, sexual exploration, family relations, newlyweds, neighbor, youth, couple relations, couples, parents and children, love and romance, young lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell ...
Style:
touching, feel good, thought provoking, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay, coming out, gay son, lifestyle, lgbtq, family secret, father son relationship, love affair, family life, family disapproval, parents and children, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, touching, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, swimming, obsessive quest, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, family disapproval, friendship, hopes, misfit, human spirit, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, england, english channel, london, iraq
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Wake Up Sid! is the story of a lazy Mumbai college student who does absolutely nothing, with a turn of events will Sid realize his potential in this world and become a success in the fast-paced life of Mumbai.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
spoiled brat, age difference, impossible love, social differences, fall in love, society, love and romance, family disapproval, unfulfillment, coming of age, love, friendship ...
Place:
india, asia, mumbai india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Muriel’s Wedding is P.J. Hogan’s film debut. A humorous emancipation story of an unemployed woman who evolves from a dreamer into a self sustaining successful woman. An amusing comedy that’s funny, silly, angry and serious.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, friendship, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, dignity, women, small town, coming of age, leaving home, parenthood, happy ending, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, bali
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Style:
feel good, romantic, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
wedding, culture clash, mother daughter relationship, greek, love, prejudice, dysfunctional family, love and romance, bride and groom, stereotypes, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, chicago illinois, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married -- and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle -- prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party. And Jim's dad is ...
Style:
sex comedy, funny, sexy, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, teenager, looking for sex, college, silly humor, dumb, stupidity, high school, party, sex, older woman younger man relationship, bachelor party ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, michigan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story:
When Rasmus gets of the train at the Central Station in Stockholm in September 1982 he leaves the little city of Koppom behind, to never go back. Young and beautiful he throws himself out in the gay Stockholm. Benjamin is a Jehova'’s ...
Style:
serious, touching, thought provoking, realistic, depressing ...
Plot:
aids, lgbt, gay, gay slur, hiv, fall in love, terminal illness, acceptance, family disapproval, belief, social differences, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
stockholm sweden, sweden, eastern europe
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41K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Style:
sweet, light, sentimental, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, unlikely couple, relationships, love story, artist, fall in love, love, women, older woman younger man sex, family relations, life philosophy ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, israel, brooklyn new york city, paris france ...
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35K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, preschoolers
Plot:
autism, asperger's syndrome, shyness, mental illness, fall in love, loneliness, disability, neighbor, love affair, depression, psychology, communication problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Turkish man, whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup, finally returns home. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family farm, he takes his 8 year-old and tries to repair relations.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
court, family relations, homecoming, tragic hero, father son relationship, society, rebelliousness, rebel, parents and children, family life, coming of age, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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