Autumn Sonata is an amazing Ingrid Bergman performance highlighting her transition from the classic Hollywood style acting to a more modern, realistic take on acting, the transition of which was flawless. Strongly recommend for great family tension

Aftersun The Whale

A24 TKOs 😭

Could also add EEAAO

Oh, absolutely. Made me bawl. So, so good.

Ordinary People

Watched this one for the first time earlier this year. That film accomplished the unthinkable: making Mary Tyler Moore unlikeable. Pretty devastating.

Lady Bird

#Art Hoe: The Movie

I’m honestly sorry this is getting downvoted. I actually lol’d 🤣

The truth is often disliked :)

Big Fish

Beautiful Boy (if you want to cry a lot), When You Finish Saving the World (meh), Pariah (beautiful, should watch if you haven’t), and Honeyboy.

Ooof, Honeyboy was good, but v rough. The others are on my list. Thank you!

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Ice Storm The Royal Tenembaums

A Thousand and One (2023)

Been meaning to watch this one! Thanks for the reminder!

Magnolia

I have some home movies you could borrow?

😭😭😭

Lady Bird, Mommy, Into The Wild, Moonlight, The Whale, I, Tonya, House Of Hummingbird, The Virgin Suicides

Little bit of a deep cut, but On Golden Pond is more of a feel-good one

The Darjeeling Limited

Hereditary

It's a subplot in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance but it's rather central. It changes the context of the main plot. Artfully violent movie though.

Haven’t heard of this one—adding to the list. Thank you!

from this year: Treasure and Ghostlight 

Ooooh. Treasure was already on the list, but I hadn’t heard of Ghostlight—both look great. Thank you!

Treasure was a 2.5 for me. Ghostlight was 4.5- loved the shit out of it.

That’s what I’d expect from a Lena Dunham movie, tbh. Will still give it a go 🤣

Matchstick men

Precious (2009)

The guilt trip

The return (Andrey Zvyagintsev), I killed my mother, Mommy (both from Xavier Dolan)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Virgin Suicides I, Tonya Brave Amelie The Peasants Big Fish C.R.A.Z.Y Captain Fantastic The Quiet Girl The Others Parched Titanic The King's Speech Romeo+Juliet Hook Harold and Maude Matilda Shame Billy Elliott Pride ... Honestly, there's so many... strained parent/children relationship are *so often* the foundation, and motivation, for a main character Even tho it's not always the main topic, the influence on the story can be so heavy, it's hard to dismiss it Titanic is a perfect exemple: everybody will remember the iceberg and the love story, sure But really, if Rose's mother wasn't forcing an arranged marriage on her daughter, she never would have met Jack She only met him *because* she was so desperate about her future, she tried to kill herself And she fell *so hard* for him *because* she was feeling *so trapped*. She was a bird in a cage and he felt like freedom 🤷‍♀️ Romeo and Juliet wouldn't be dead if it wasn't for their parents Amelie wouldn't be so socially awkward, shy and anxious if she had a different childhood The guy in Shame is a total train wreck, again, because of his parent's abuse And it goes on and on

Still Walking

Honey Boy, Aftersun, Lady Bird, Mommy Dearest, and so many others

Tokyo Story Imitation of Life

Definitely 'Georgia Rule' which has a strained Grandparent/Parent/Child relationship Would also throw in 'White Oleander' too

The Edge of Seventeen

Xavier Dolan movies have always great mother-son relationship as a main focus

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Four good days

Saving Mr. Banks, I, Tonya, Turning Red, Eighth Grade, Rocketman, the glass castle, Dumplin’, Postcards from the edge, terms of endearment

Tokyo Story Still Walking The Only Son Ordinary People The Royal Tenenbaums

Every Wes Anderson film ever made

Psycho

20th Century Women

Everything everywhere all at once

Ordinary People strutting into the end zone for this question

There is a TV show **The Patient** that is dealing with this.