10 films and series about the relationship of fathers and children

1. Shameless

Shameless

• United States, 2011–2021.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 11 seasons.
• IMDb: 8.5.

The Gallagher family is five children and useless parents. Children are forced to take their own upbringing and life into their own hands, but it turns out they are not always successful. The everyday life of the Gallaghers is full of absolutely incredible and unpredictable situations, and the relationship between the characters is only stronger, despite all the problems.

"Shameless" won the hearts of viewers around the world. The incredible chemistry between the actors makes you empathize with the characters. In their lives there is a place not only for drama, but also for black humor. The head of the family, Frank, shows that sometimes children behave more responsibly than their parents.

2. My mom's penguins

• Russia, 2021.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 1 season.
• IMDb: 7.5.

Gosha is a teenager from Moscow. He has many problems at school and family. He is the only natural son, three adopted children live with him. Gosha is trying to escape from reality, and the only place where he succeeds is the stage of the stand-up club.

The hero tries to joke from the stage about his family and the problems in it, and he has this doing great. He is very frank, parents are shocked. Gosha's constant performances from the stage become therapy and help to influence the relationship with his father and mother.

3. Jersey girl

jersey girl

• USA, 2004
• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.2.

Olli Trinke is a happy family man. He is married to a beautiful woman who is about to give birth. The hero's life changes at the moment when he becomes a widower with his daughter in his arms. A man decides to move in with his father so that he can help him.

Kevin Smith's melodrama starring Ben Affleck develops a very touching storyline. The main character did not want to accept his daughter - for a long time she remained for him just a child without a name. But gradually he becomes a good father.

4. The Place Beyond the Pines

The Place Beyond the Pines

• USA, 2012.
• Thriller, drama, crime.
• Duration: 140 minutes.
• IMDb: 7.3.

Stuntman Luke makes a living tricks - He is constantly on the road and does not stay in one place for a long time. One day, returning to the city where he had once been, the hero learns about his son. Luke decides to leave his career and devote himself to his family and child.

heavy drama with Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper in the lead roles turned out great. Relations between the characters are very tense, they all fail to build an ideal family, but they are desperately trying to do it.

5. Lady Bird

Lady Bird

• USA, 2017.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 94 minutes.
• IMDb: 7.4.

Teen Christina goes to a Catholic school, but that doesn't stop her from being rebellious. The girl constantly quarrels with her mother, does not want to be like everyone else and in every possible way tries to stand out from the crowd. The heroine has many problems, but they are all solvable for her. One of them is to leave her small town for New York, but her mother is categorically against it.

The relationship between the main character and her mother is complicated. It seems to the girl that no one understands her and the whole world is against her. Director Greta Gerwig did a great job of showing teenage rebellion and its consequences.

6. Mommy

Mommy

• Canada, 2014
• Drama.
• Duration: 138 minutes.
• IMDb: 8.0.

Diana is a widow who sent her rebel son Steve to a boarding school. One day she decides to take him home and start a new life. But the idyll does not last long, scandals begin again in the family.

Mommy is not Xavier Dolan's first work on the relationship between parents and children, but probably the most poignant. Here, the connection between mother and son is very fragile, almost destroyed, there is nothing left of the family, but the heroes are trying with all their might to restore it.

7. Ginny and Georgia

Ginny & Georgia

• United States, 2021–2023.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 2 seasons.
• IMDb: 7.5.

Georgia is the mother of teenager Ginny. A woman worries about her daughter and decides to move to another city to start a new life. However, the past of the heroine does not leave her alone, and at this time you need to deal with the problems of your own child.

The series "Ginny and Georgia" shows the relationship between children and parents. Only here the mother and daughter are forced to change places: it is the teenager who appears before the viewer as a more mature person, forced to to mature.

8. Father

The Father

• UK, France, USA, 2020.
• Drama.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 8.2.

Anthony is an elderly man who lives in his own flat in London. His daughter Ann is about to move to Paris and does not believe that Anthony can be left alone. She wants to find him a nurse, but Anthony categorically refuses.

The painting "Father" shows everything well hardships of life old people. This is loneliness, and illness, and the fear of death. Anthony and Ann's relationship is difficult - the daughter understands that her father is sick. The creators turned out a great, but very heavy drama.

9. All fears Bo

Beau Is Afraid

• USA, UK, Finland, Canada, 2023.
• Comedy, drama, horror.
• Duration: 179 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.8.

Bo is a man suffering from anxiety. And he is afraid of everything in general, and in order to make it easier for him, he tries to reduce contacts with the outside world to a minimum. Bo is on a journey to visit his mother as the anniversary of his father's death draws near. He is very afraid of offending his mother - and this has been with Bo since childhood.

The relationship between Bo and his mother is very complicated, because she constantly told him that the outside world is dangerous. The hero knows that he is afraid of his mother more than anything in the world, but he cannot tell her this. At the director's Ari Astera It's a great story about the relationship between mother and child.

10. How Vitka Chesnok took Lyokha Shtyr to the nursing home

• Russia, 2017.
• Drama, comedy, crime.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb score: 7.1

Vitya is a young guy with a difficult past, a bad husband and father. He wants to leave his family for a life with his mistress, and he has no means for this. Vitya meets his father Lyokha, a criminal and a disabled person, and decides to send him to a home for the disabled in order to qualify for housing.

The protagonist Vitka is a hardened guy from an orphanage who has been doing wrong all his life. The long road to the boarding house is tragic for both him and his father.