Dysfunctional Families
To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy families are all alike: they’re really boring to watch on-screen. Thus, cinema is besotted with deliciously unhappy ones.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1246 |
|
The Grifters | Stephen Frears | United States, | 1990 |
| 501 |
|
Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Germany, | 1984 |
| 1238 |
|
Gummo | Harmony Korine | United States, | 1997 |
| 1235 |
|
Happiness | Todd Solondz | United States, | 1998 |
| 1232 |
|
Mother | Albert Brooks | United States, | 1996 |
| 1231 |
|
Real Life | Albert Brooks | United States, | 1979 |
|
Raven’s End | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, | 1963 | |
| 1013 |
|
Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, | 1968 |
| 236 |
|
Mamma Roma | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, | 1962 |
| 1176 |
|
Chilly Scenes of Winter | Joan Micklin Silver | United States, | 1979 |
| 860 |
|
Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | United States, | 1945 |
| 1171 |
|
Romeo and Juliet | Franco Zeffirelli | Italy, | 1968 |
|
Night Games | Mai Zetterling | Sweden, | 1966 | |
|
Benny’s Video | Michael Haneke | Austria, | 1992 | |
|
The Seventh Continent | Michael Haneke | Austria, | 1989 | |
| 1158 |
|
The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | United States, | 2021 |
| 1154 |
|
Eve’s Bayou | Kasi Lemmons | United States, | 1997 |
| 1156 |
|
La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala, | 2019 |
| 1153 |
|
Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | United States, | 1944 |
| 1150 |
|
Exotica | Atom Egoyan | Canada, | 1994 |
| 1145 |
|
Chess of the Wind | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Iran, | 1976 |
| 1138 |
|
Daddy Longlegs | Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie | United States, | 2009 |
| 920 |
|
The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | United States, | 1999 |
| 1131 |
|
Pink Flamingos | John Waters | United States, | 1972 |
| 96 |
|
Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1956 |
| 1108 |
|
The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark, | 1998 |
| 1098 |
|
The Damned | Luchino Visconti | Italy, | 1969 |
| 1070 |
|
Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom, | 1996 |
| 363 |
|
Mouchette | Robert Bresson | France, | 1967 |
| 1056 |
|
Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | United States, | 1987 |
| 1038 |
|
Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | United States, | 2019 |
| 1032 |
|
An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | United States, | 1978 |
| 1029 |
|
Husbands | John Cassavetes | United States, | 1970 |
| 1031 |
|
Wildlife | Paul Dano | United States, | 2018 |
| 1026 |
|
Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | United States, | 2005 |
| 1014 |
|
Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | United States, | 2018 |
| 963 |
|
To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | United States, | 1990 |
| 743 |
|
La Ciénaga | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina, | 2001 |
| 259 |
|
Fat Girl | Catherine Breillat | France, | 2001 |
| 350 |
|
Seduced and Abandoned | Pietro Germi | Italy, | 1964 |
| 492 |
|
A Christmas Tale | Arnaud Desplechin | France, | 2008 |
| 505 |
|
Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | United States, | 1937 |
| 952 |
|
The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | United States, | 1942 |
| 520 |
|
Everlasting Moments | Jan Troell | Sweden, | 2008 |
| 337 |
|
À nos amours | Maurice Pialat | France, | 1983 |
| 198 |
|
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1974 |
| 403 |
|
Cría cuervos . . . | Carlos Saura | Spain, | 1976 |
| 253 |
|
A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | United States, | 1974 |
| 95 |
|
All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1955 |
| 356 |
|
Sweetie | Jane Campion | New Zealand, | 1989 |
| 553 |
|
Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, | 2009 |
| 426 |
|
The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | United States, | 1997 |
| 101 |
|
Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, | 1972 |
| 5 |
|
The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | France, | 1959 |
| 157 |
|
The Royal Tenenbaums | Wes Anderson | United States, | 2001 |
| 659 |
|
Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom, | 1990 |
| 60 |
|
Autumn Sonata | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, | 1978 |
| 690 |
|
The Housemaid | Kim Ki-young | South Korea, | 1960 |
| 533 |
|
Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | United States, | 1995 |
| 123 |
|
Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer | United States, | 1976 |
| 507 |
|
Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | United States, | 1956 |
| 942 |
|
The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | United States, | 2011 |
| 252 |
|
Faces | John Cassavetes | United States, | 1968 |
| 229 |
|
Scenes from a Marriage | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, | 1973 |
| 333 |
|
Fists in the Pocket | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, | 1965 |
| 554 |
|
Still Walking | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan, | 2008 |
| 323 |
|
The Children Are Watching Us | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, | 1944 |
| 546 |
|
Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | United States, | 1970 |
| 398 |
|
Les enfants terribles | Jean-Pierre Melville | France, | 1950 |
| 874 |
|
Insiang | Lino Brocka | Philippines, | 1976 |
| 898 |
|
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | United States, | 1992 |
| 527 |
|
The Secret of the Grain | Abdellatif Kechiche | France, | 2007 |
|
Poto and Cabengo | Jean-Pierre Gorin | United States, | 1980 | |
|
The Inheritance | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan, | 1962 | |
|
Chains | Raffaello Matarazzo | Italy, | 1949 | |
|
A Married Couple | Allan King | Canada, | 1969 |