Movies: Parents

A couple's life becomes complicated when people get involved with their troublesome son....

A sock puppet explores a family history told from the perspective of a mother and father....

A simplistically rendered girl screams and cries, and her environment changes to reflect her thoughts and mood....

A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them...

A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy....

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Exploring the director’s father’s chronic health problems, as a diabetic with kidney failure, and his mother’s role as his eternal caretaker, Chilly and Milly is a combination of 3D-modeled/composited characters, with cinéma vérité scenes from an aut...

Achyut Shankar, a plus two student, wants to be a cricketer, but his father has already chalked out a career in medicine for him. While fighting parental pressure from his strict parents, this young boy gets involved in an incident....

For two decades, Éva Janikovszky wrote her famous children's monologues, which have remained popular ever since. In some of her books, she always writes about the problems of her boy protagonist, which are related to a particular age. This is how the...

A mother's preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage daughter, who subsequently finds herself mixed up with horny teenage boys, scuzzy nightclub owners and...

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A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a climactic conversation in their lives -- as both young parents grasp at the last threads of their ideal family. On an afternoon off of work, the coupl...

A heartwarming comedy of parents using a computer for the first time to communicate with their son in America....

In moving interviews, four fathers describe their suffering and efforts to keep contact with their children. A mother justifies the refusal of contact from her point of view. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the film manages to remain entertaini...

A study of my parents in grey and white. An evening film. My mother lights the sabbath candles, cooks, crochets, sleeps, talks to father reading the paper – we are together. This is the first completed note....

Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls....

The year is two thousand and something. An elderly couple live alone in a flat in Sarajevo, with their own rituals: drinking coffee, playing cards, watching TV....

Taking place before, concurrently, and after the first film, Vinnie receives his drug shipment only to find out someone is suspicious of his activities. Trying to find a way to get the drugs out onto the streets, he enlists the help of his best frien...

An abstract exploration of memory and loss....

Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug use PSAs from National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (NCADI). The films were as...