Recommendations for Family Dramas

Anybody know some good family dramas? Not necessarily to watch with the whole family, but about families. I would really appreciate suggestions! Thanks!

In My Father's Den a powerful New Zealand family drama about a war photographer who returns to his native NZ after a long absence for the funeral of his estranged father, fragments of his past resurface and the tensions and secrets between the different members of the family are dragged up.

Also:

The War Zone (but be warned, this is very disturbing)
Little Women (if you want something fluffier)
Secrets and Lies (excellent Mike Leigh film about an adopted daughter seeking her birth parents)
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Godfather

My Farher's Glory
My Mother's Castle
National Velvet
The Yearling
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Heaven Can Wait (1943) - actually a comedy
Life With Father
I Remember Mama
You Can Count on Me
The Squid and the Whale
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Sons and Lovers
The Grapes of Wrath
The Catered Affair
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Long Day's Journey into Night

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And from the world of American series television (and from completely different ends of the tone spectrum) I'd suggest "Family" (1976-1980) and "Six Feet Under" (2001-2005).

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Excellent post Holden

Six Feet Under is just what I was thinking actually, for a mature family anyway

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"Sons and Lovers" ---I've watched several times, It's great I'm willing to recommend to you.

How about Kungfu Panda or Slumdog?

Whale Rider
Lost Boys ~ (vampire flick)
Let the right one in ~ (Foreign Vampire flick)
Babe
The Family Stone
Un air de Famille
Eve's Bayou
Meet me in St. Louis
To Kill a Mockingbird ~ (In polls, Atticus Finch always comes in near the top of great screen Dads)
Oliver!

I like "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1947(. It's about 3 soldiers returning from from WWII, and how they and their families deal with it. It's still relevant today, with all that's going on. Great movie.

Great movie. RIP PSH!

I got here too late to mention The Great Santini, To Kill a Mockingbird and Never Sang for My Father.

I'll add to the comprehensive suggestions of the prior posters:

Fiddler on the Roof

Moonstruck

Home for the Holidays

Meet the Fockers

Rrgarding Henry

Gone with the Wind

Harry and Tonto (cats are family too)

American Beauty.

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If you speak Spanish or can find a subtitled version, Cuéntame cómo pasó is very good:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302447/