Survining a family in crisis

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows survining a family in crisis

poster A Child of the Ghetto

A Child of the Ghetto

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees …

poster Extra Innings

Extra Innings

In 1960s Brooklyn, young David Sabah dreams of a baseball career but faces fierce opposition from his traditional Syrian Jewish family who expect him to join the family business and marry within their com…

poster The Servant Girl's Legacy

The Servant Girl's Legacy

A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another tel…

poster Hunting Souls

Hunting Souls

Hunting Souls is the story of an American couple who are dealing with the hardships of caring for their sick child. They discover that they are being hunted by a demon.

poster The Suburbanite

The Suburbanite

A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.

poster The Killing Secret

The Killing Secret

86mn - Mystery, Thriller, Short

A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact she has bonded with the victim's mother?

poster Children of Eve

Children of Eve

73mn - Drama, Crime

An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-…

poster Leaves of the Tree

Leaves of the Tree

96mn - Drama, Family, Mystery

A terminally ill patent lawyer searches for a mystical tree whose leaves are rumored to possess miraculous healing powers, but his quest becomes entangled in an ancient struggle between faith and corporat…

Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

poster For Their Own Good

For Their Own Good

118mn - Drama, Short

When a factory worker faces an impossible ultimatum—submit to sterilization or lose her job—she rallies her fellow workers to fight back against their employer's shocking demands, challenging a system tha…

poster Gallant Lady

Gallant Lady

An unwed mother forced to give up her child for adoption orchestrates a chance reunion years later, befriending her now-grown son and his adoptive father while hiding her true identity.

poster Don't Say Its Name

Don't Say Its Name

84mn - Horror, Thriller

After environmental activist Kharis Redwater is called back to the living world by her mother Mary Lynn after a questionable “accident” that cost Kharis her life, an ancient spirit is reborn outside of a …

poster His Mother's Thanksgiving

His Mother's Thanksgiving

15mn - Drama, Family

This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fort…

poster The Woman in the Suitcase

The Woman in the Suitcase

Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.

poster A Deadly Silence

A Deadly Silence

91mn - Drama, Thriller

The father of three children was killed when he left his house. This provokes a lot of sentimental emotions in the neighbourhood because the people know nothing about his dark past.

poster Brothers Under the Chin

Brothers Under the Chin

Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." The other as captain of a sailing vessel needs an extra…

poster The Survival Games

The Survival Games

Four friends on a camping trip discover a mysterious tracking device that transforms their peaceful weekend into a deadly game of survival when ruthless gangsters hunt them through the wilderness. With no…

poster The Disappearance of Onésime

The Disappearance of Onésime

When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons.

Spirit

88mn - Drama, Horror, Thriller

Still reeling from guilt over her mother's tragic death, a teenage girl moves with her father to a mysterious house in New Orleans where supernatural occurrences convince her that her mother's spirit is t…

poster Snowballing

Snowballing

96mn - Action, Comedy

A group of high school students on a ski vacation discover their resort's corrupt owner has been overcharging guests for years with the local sheriff's help. With only seven days to expose the scam, the t…

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