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- Life Is Beautiful (1997) Directed by Roberto Benigni. Starring Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini. Comedy, Drama, Romance (1h 56m) 8.6 on IMDb — 80% on RT.
- Bicycle Thieves (1948) Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Starring Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell. Drama (1h 29m) 8.3 on IMDb — 99% on RT. In Bicycle Thieves, Antonio Ricci (played by Lamberto Maggiorani) is desperate to get his bike back after it's been stolen.
- Big Fish (2003) Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup. Adventure, Drama, Fantasy (2h 5m) 8.0 on IMDb — 75% on RT. Many families fall apart and become estranged over heated arguments that aren't always worth it.
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Directed by Robert Benton. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander. Drama (1h 45m) 7.8 on IMDb — 89% on RT. Divorce was a little less common back in the 1970s, but the impact of Kramer vs. Kramer is still the same.
The Shining. 1980 2h 26m R. 8.4 (1.1M) Rate. 68 Metascore. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
- “The Kid”
- “Bicycle Thieves”
- “East of Eden”
- “The Godfather”
- “Back to The Future”
- “Field of Dreams”
- “The Lion King”
- “Billy Elliot”
- “Catch Me If You Can”
- “Big Fish”
Family isn’t always who you are biologically related to. Among the first films to explore this truth is Charlie Chaplin’s early classic “The Kid,” his first full-length directorial effort. Jackie Coogan, maybe the earliest Hollywood child star, plays the kid of the title, who is abandoned as a baby by his devastated mother and ends up in the care o...
Vittorio De Sica’s revolutionary neorealist drama redefined film by emphasizing raw authenticity over crafted drama. Its sobering look at life among the poor in Rome post-World War II is engrossing, and it would fall apart if the central dynamic between Lamberto Maggiorani’s destitute Antonio and his son, the sweet-hearted Bruno (Enzo Staiola) ever...
James Dean’s first lead role is perhaps a smidgen less iconic than his tortured bad boy in “Rebel Without a Cause,” but he mines similar gold playing the forgotten black sheep child whose failures to live up to his father’s expectations give him a major chip on the shoulder. Elia Kazan’s swoony melodrama takes John Steinbeck’s epic family drama and...
“The Godfather” is such an outsized classic touchstone of cinema that it’s easy to forget how simple the film really is. At its core, Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic film is a story of a father and the son who ends up embodying his mistakes; it just so happens to be that “embodying his mistakes” means “becoming a ruthless mafia head,” in this case. A...
Many probably wonder what it would be like to meet your parents as a peer. “Back to the Future” dramatizes that wistful thought as a stone-cold classic sci-fi comedy, pushing the rebellious Marty Mcfly (Michael J. Fox) back from his time period of 1985 to the ’50s, when his parents were in high school and about to fall in love. His presence disrupt...
Theguy cry film, “Field of Dreams” is about as corny as the field that Kevin Costner mows down to build a baseball diamond in. Still, if you aren’t sobbing when Costner’s tortured son Ray reunites with the ghost of his father (Dwier Brown), you’re a little bit dead inside. Dramatizing Ray’s struggles to process his estranged relationship through a ...
Shakespeare in the Savanna, “The Lion King” distills all of the complex emotional tragedy and despair in the Bard’s magnum opus “Hamlet” to zoom into the lead character’s central arc of avenging and living up to the legacy of his father. Oh, and Hamlet and the king are both talking lions. Disney’s gigantic ’90s hit is obviously a much more family-f...
Few family conflicts are as relatable as a dad just not gettinghis kid’s new hobby. Crowd-pleaser “Billy Elliot” succeeds because it grounds that relatable conflict in a more specific tale of toxic masculinity and the Northern English working class, with a healthy addition of ballet for good measure. Jamie Bell’s titular 11-year-old gets signed up ...
Before he dramatized his parents’ divorce in 2022’s “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s films were often defined by the absenceof father figures: See the single mother raising the kids of “E.T.” or the frosty relationship between the title character and his dad in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.” Of all the daddy issue stories Spielberg has ma...
Tim Burton’s last great film, “Big Fish” is a movie all about the gulf between father and son. The film’s central character, Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor as a young man, Albert Finney as an adult) is a chronic liar whose tall tales alienate his more responsible son William (Billy Crudup). When William is forced to take care of his dad as he dies of ...
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- The Kid (1921) The great silent comedy star-writer-director Charlie Chaplin eventually became father to ten children but, ironically, hardly knew his own.
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1927) Virtually always mentioned in the same breath as Chaplin in discussions of silent film comedy is Buster Keaton. Like Chaplin, Keaton was born into a performing world in which his familywas none too prosperous.
- The Champ (1931) The term “weepie” usually denotes lachrymose films which tell sad, emotionally overheated stories usually aimed at female viewers, But there are films of that sort aimed at some other segments of the viewing audience.
- I Was Born, But…. (1932) For someone who never had a wife and children of his own, Yasujiro Ozu, one of the great world great directors, certainly had an unusually keen understanding of family relationships and virtually all of his films concern those relationships in one way or another.
1 day ago · 1. Life Is Beautiful (1997) Rotten Tomatoes® 80%. 2. Bicycle Thieves (1948) Rotten Tomatoes® 99%. 3. Big Fish (2003) Rotten Tomatoes® 75%.
Sep 24, 2024 · The film underscores the importance of self-reflection, forgiveness, and healing in overcoming the darker aspects of family dynamics. Over 700 filmgoers have voted on the 70+ films on Best Father-Son Movies Ever Made. Current Top 3: The Lion King, Field of Dreams, Finding Nemo.
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Jun 15, 2023 · 10 Greatest Father and Son Movies Ever Made. By Grace Amadi. Published Jun 15, 2023. Link copied to clipboard. Throughout the history of cinema, the representation of father-and-son...
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