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Indonesia
A Brother and 7 Siblings
Yandy Laurens · 2025
After the untimely death of his older sister and her husband, a struggling young architect suddenly becomes a "single parent" for his nieces and nephews. When the opportunity for a better life arises, he must choose between his love life, career, or his family.
Missing Home
Bene Dion Rajagukguk · 2022
A married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.
On Your Lap
Reza Rahadian · 2025
Sartika, a pregnant young woman, moves away from her city hoping to provide a better future for her child. She meets Maya, a coffee shop owner in Pantura. Maya takes care of Sartika and helps with her deliveries. After Sartika gives birth, Maya manipulates her into working for her as the "Kopi Pangku" waitress, a job that requires her to serve coffee on a man's lap, until one day she meets a fish distributor truck driver named Hadi and falls in love. Will she find happiness?
Comedy Buddy
Aco Tenriyagelli · 2026
Tawa, a rising stand-up comedian, builds her fame on jokes about her estranged father, Pak Keset, a veteran comic whose career collapses as hers takes off. When she reunites with him to find new material, their uneasy collaborations blurs the boundary between performance and personal reckoning, pulling long-buried scars back into the spotlight.
The Rainbow Troops
Riri Riza · 2008
A group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung.
Love for Share
Nia Dinata · 2006
Three women from three different social, economic, and ethnic groups discuss their lives in polygamous household.
Eliana, Eliana
Riri Riza · 2002
Five years after running away from an arranged marriage, Eliana is unexpectedly visited by her mother.
Na Willa
Ryan Adriandhy · 2026
Willa, a six-year-old girl, believes that her little world in an alley in Surabaya is the most perfect and magical place. However, when her best friend has an accident and, one by one, her playmates begin going to school, Willa's world slowly changes and starts to feel lonelier.
All We Need Is Time
Teddy Soeria Atmadja · 2025
One year after the accident of his elder sister, Ombak, a suicide survivor gets an anxiety attack because he is tortured by remorse and guilt-tripping from his mother.
Andragogy
Wregas Bhanuteja · 2023
A schoolteacher's reputation is at risk when a video of her speaking up against injustice goes viral on the internet and is misinterpreted.
Thailand
The Little Comedian
Mez Tharatorn · 2010
Tock, heir to a long line of comedians has a problem. He is not funny. Constantly upstage by his younger sister, he falls in love with a dermatologist who incidentally is the only one who finds him funny.
Homestay
Parkpoom Wongpoom · 2018
When a spirit inhabits the body of a teen named Min, he begins to settle into his life until he's forced to find out who caused Min's mysterious death.
Brother of the Year
Witthaya Thongyooyong · 2018
Jane lives with her brother Chut with her being the only one doing everything around the house. But Chut will need to learn to take care of himself when Jane becomes involved romantically with a Japanese coworker.
Happy Old Year
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit · 2019
While decluttering her home, a woman's hefty house renovation leads her back to the past when she uncovers her ex-boyfriend's belongings.
9 Temples to Heaven
Sompot Chidgasornpongse · 2026
A family of 9 takes their grandmother on a merit-making trip to 9 temples in 1 day, hoping to prolong her life. But the trip takes an unexpected turn.
The Paradise of Thorns
Naruebet Kuno · 2024
When his partner Sek dies, Thongkam loses his property to his late love's eager family and must fight to reclaim the home they built together.
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
Pat Boonnitipat · 2024
M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.
Japan
The Taste of Tea
Katsuhito Ishii · 2004
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
Small, Slow But Steady
Shô Miyake · 2022
A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Her Sketchbook
Masaya Ozaki · 2017
Mami rarely leaves home since she dropped out from middle school. She has been escaping reality by immersing herself in copying her favorite manga and illustrations in her room full of books and comics. Her father, Eisuke, worries a lot about her ever since he divorced with her mother, Mika.
All the Long Nights
Sho Miyake · 2024
Two work colleagues: he suffers from panic attacks, she has extreme PMS. Their company distributes toy planetariums. What may not sound like Ozu Yasujirō is actually precisely that: people are attentive and do each other good, without even realising.
Survival Family
Shinobu Yaguchi · 2017
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Our Sister's Soulmate
· 2020
27 year old Adachi Momoko lost both her parents in an accident when she was in third year high school. She then gave up going to college and has been working at a home centre for the past nine years while supporting her three younger brothers who are now 20, 17, and 14 year old respectively.
Motherhood
Ryuichi Hiroki · 2022
Sayaka, a high school student, kills herself but the reason behind her suicide is unknown. She appeared to have led a normal life with her family. Her mother Rumiko seemed to have raised Sayaka with love and care. In reality, that does not seem to be the case. When the mother and daughter recall the same incidents that took place in the past, they tell very different stories.
Hey Handsome!!
Masatoshi Yamaguchi · 2022
58-year-old Gentaro Ito lives with his wife Chizuru in a house in Tokyo. Each of their three daughters should have left home and lived well. However, their eldest daughter, 28-year-old Yuka, is single and doing well at work but has a propensity for affairs. Their 25-year-old second daughter, Rika, wedded a highly educated man and lives in Osaka but the couple are on the brink of divorce. Their youngest daughter, 22-year-old Mika, is also single, and the moment she gets to start living on her own, she half-cohabits with a man who does not seem like he will be a successful manga artist. Gentaro worries endlessly about his daughters who are poor judges of character. Completely ignoring their tastes, this stubborn, old-fashioned father suddenly brings a man whom he likes to the house in the middle of the night and introduces him to his daughters. In fact, this man is Yuka's ex-boyfriend. What will the family be like the next day!?
The Boy and the Beast
Mamoru Hosoda · 2015
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
Petals and Memories
Tetsu Maeda · 2025
With the promise made to their deceased father in his heart, the older brother, Toshiki, has continued to protect his younger sister, Fumiko. Now that Fumiko is getting married, the burden he carried should have finally been lifted, but a long-buried "secret" of Fumiko has resurfaced.
Harmonium
Koji Fukada · 2016
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
Close-Knit
Naoko Ogigami · 2017
After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Ryota Nakano · 2016
A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
My Story Is Long
· 2019
A young man has college and a failed business behind him. Unemployed and planning his next steps he is lodging with is mother, a small business owner. His sister and her family also move in with the two, albeit temporarily. She sees him as a loser and a lush and wants him out. She also whispers in their mother's ear to ask him to leave the house in order to find his own way and begin the rest of his life. She probably has noble intentions, but is she right and will she succeed?
Mirai
Mamoru Hosoda · 2018
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.
Hanging Garden
Toshiaki Toyoda · 2005
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
Bright Future
Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 2003
Buddies working at an oshibori factory bond over an uncontrollable rage neither can control, as well as a strange jellyfish they keep as a pet.
Eureka
Shinji Aoyama · 2001
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
Sway
Miwa Nishikawa · 2006
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
All Around Us
Ryosuke Hashiguchi · 2008
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.
Tokyo Sonata
Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 2008
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
Dear Etranger
Yukiko Mishima · 2017
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.
Under the Open Sky
Miwa Nishikawa · 2021
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.
Rental Family
HIKARI · 2025
An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.
True Mothers
Naomi Kawase · 2020
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.
The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons
· 2023
The four Yuzuki brothers—Hayato, Mikoto, Minato, and young Gakuto—lost their parents two years ago and now work to raise themselves. Together they live, learn, fight, and forgive as brothers should.
Tokyo Godfathers
Satoshi Kon · 2003
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Wolf Children
Mamoru Hosoda · 2012
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Mari Okada · 2018
Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.
The Beginning of the Sea
Miku Ubukata · 2024
A love story depicting the connection between parents and their children in various forms.
South Korea
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho · 2019
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Bori
Kim Jin-yu · 2020
Bori, an 11-year-old girl in a seaside village, is the only family member who can hear. As an elementary school student, Bori becomes more and more accustomed to talking with her friends while finding it hard to communicate with her family in sign language.
Family Ties
Kim Tae-yong · 2006
A story of three families living different but similar lives. They always fight and quarrel, but love is the common denominator for their relationship, making people think about what families are for.
Moving On
Yoon Dan-bi · 2020
During a summer vacation, Ok-ju and Dong-ju move into their grandpa's house. While Dong-ju adapts to his new home, Ok-ju feels awkward about this new environment. Once their soon-to-be-divorced aunt also moves in, and as Ok-ju spends time with her family, the house and her grandpa start to grow on her.
Concerning My Daughter
Lee Mi-rang · 2024
Green is a professor in a long-term relationship with her lesbian partner. Failing at preparing the deposit for the house and Green being laid off for helping her homosexual colleague, the only option they can choose is to move in with Green’s mother. As their awkward stay prolongs, the mother drives all her energy into her job as a caregiver.
Train to Busan
Yeon Sang-ho · 2016
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Poetry
Lee Chang-dong · 2010
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
The Throne
Lee Joon-ik · 2015
Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo of Joseon, is accused of treason. Thus, the king asks him to commit suicide, but his closest vassals prevent it, so the king orders the prince to get inside a wooden rice chest, where he suffers deprivation of food and water.
When Life Gives You Tangerines
Lim Sang-choon · 2025
In Jeju, a spirited girl and a steadfast boy's island story blossoms into a lifelong tale of setbacks and triumphs — proving love endures across time.
The World of Us
Yoon Ga-eun · 2016
A bullied girl becomes friends with a new kid during a break, but when classes start up again, their new friendship is nearly ruined when the bullying continues.
The Preparation
Cho Young-jun · 2017
In-gyu has intellectual disability. His mother, Ae-soon, takes care of him, nagging him all the time. One day, she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and prepares for her son's independence.
Dear My Friends
Noh Hee-kyung · 2016
Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.
My Mister
Park Hae-young · 2018
In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.
The Good Bad Mother
Sim Na-yeon · 2023
A tragic accident leaves an ambitious prosecutor with the mind of a child – forcing him and his mother to embark on a journey to heal their relationship.
Twinkling Watermelon
Jin Soo-wan · 2023
A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.
Welcome to Samdal-ri
Kwon Hye-ju · 2023
After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.
Love Scout
함준호 · 2025
Yoo Eun-ho, a single dad armed with perfection, becomes the secretary of Kang Ji-yun, the CEO of a popular headhunter company, who doesn't do anything except work.
Moving
Park In-je · 2023
Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.
Typhoon Family
Lee Na-jeong · 2025
Depicts the struggles of small and medium-sized businesses and their families who face the 1997 IMF crisis head-on.
Reply 1988
Shin Won-ho · 2015
Take a nostalgic trip back to the late 1980s through the lives of five families and their five teenage kids living in a small neighbourhood in Seoul.
My Liberation Notes
Park Hae-young · 2022
Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.
Hospital Playlist
Lee Woo-jung · 2020
Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist.
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung · 2021
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Move to Heaven
Yoon Ji-ryun · 2021
Finding life in all that’s left behind, a detail-oriented trauma cleaner and his estranged uncle deliver untold stories of the departed to loved ones.
Juvenile Justice
Hong Jong-chan · 2022
A tough judge balances her aversion to minor offenders with firm beliefs on justice and punishment as she tackles complex cases inside a juvenile court.
The Host
Bong Joon Ho · 2006
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
The Journey to Gyeong-ju
Kim Mi-jo · 2025
Upon hearing the release of the murderer, who killed the youngest daughter, Gyeong-ju, four women—her mother and three sisters—set out on a family trip to Gyeongju, driven by their thirst for revenge.
Treeless Mountain
So Yong Kim · 2009
A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.
Secret Sunshine
Lee Chang-dong · 2007
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
A Tale of Two Sisters
Kim Jee-woon · 2003
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.
The Way Home
Lee Jeong-hyang · 2002
This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Kang Je-kyu · 2004
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Mother
Bong Joon Ho · 2009
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
Last Child
Shin Dong-seok · 2018
Six months ago the son of the married couple drowned. The couple, together with the teenager that their son saved, begin a journey to cope with the loss.
Little Forest
Yim Soon-rye · 2018
A young woman leaves the city to return to her hometown in the countryside. Seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, she becomes self-sufficient in a bid to reconnect with nature.
The Bacchus Lady
E J-yong · 2016
So-young, an elderly prostitute working in Seoul, tries to take care of a young Korean-Filipino child she meets in a hospital and make ends meet. So-young's life takes a dark turn when several of her old clients try to reconnect with her.
Little Women
Kim Hee-won · 2022
Three sisters, who only have each other and never enough money, get entangled in a conspiracy involving the rich and powerful.
House of Hummingbird
Kim Bora · 2019
14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.
Under the Queen's Umbrella
Kim Hyung-sik · 2022
A spirited queen tries to rein in her rowdy sons in order to make one of them the next king of Joseon, while her competitors vie to snatch the throne.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Going My Home
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2012
Ryota, a timid salaryman who has difficulties fitting in at home and work has his average life changed after his estranged father falls ill. Along with his wife Sae and their only child Moe, he travels to his father's country town, where he begins to uncover his father's mysterious past spent searching for a mythical creature.
Distance
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2001
On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
Broker
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2022
Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.
After the Storm
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2016
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.
Still Walking
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2008
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Monster
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2023
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
Our Little Sister
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2015
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.
Like Father, Like Son
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2013
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2018
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.
Nobody Knows
Hirokazu Kore-eda · 2004
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Pedro Almodóvar
Pain and Glory
Pedro Almodóvar · 2019
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar · 2016
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar · 2021
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
All About My Mother
Pedro Almodóvar · 1999
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Volver
Pedro Almodóvar · 2006
Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.
Uncategorized
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Scheinert · 2022
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Captain Fantastic
Matt Ross · 2016
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Go Ahead
· 2020
Three friends from troubled families form a unique, lasting bond — but their pasts soon cast a cloud over their lives.
