One True Thing
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
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James White
2015★ 6.6
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
Ordinary Love
2019★ 6.8
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
The Book of Henry
2017★ 7.5
Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands.
The Son
2022★ 6.7
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014★ 6.7
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Manchester by the Sea
2016★ 7.6
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Starving in Suburbia
2014★ 6.5
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Not Easily Broken
2009★ 6.4
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
P.S. I Love You
2007★ 7.2
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Save the Last Dance
2001★ 6.5
After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.
Life in a Year
2020★ 8.2
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Blackbird
2019★ 6.8
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014★ 6.7
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Nine Lives
2005★ 6.1
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Hello Sister, Goodbye Life
2006★ 6.1
A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
The Shack
2017★ 7.5
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
The Glass Castle
2017★ 7.1
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
Purple Hearts
2022★ 8.0
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
TalhotBlond
2012★ 6.3
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Fathers and Daughters
2015★ 7.1
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.