Family Drama
Family drama is a form of Drama film that primarily focuses on the personal relationships and dynamics between family members. Family dramas contrast with other forms of drama like Legal Drama and Political Drama in that their conflicts are often a result of personal, family events, like marriages, the death of loved ones or dysfunctional family members, rather than a more grand, general background as in the aforementioned forms of drama. The genre nevertheless crosses over with these genres, as in the case where a family drama features a strong political motive. The genre commonly incorporates elements of Melodrama, a result of the heightened emotion and tragic scenes that may arise in family dramas. Though narratives are usually centered small families and their everyday, or normal, small-scale struggles, family dramas featuring extensive Crime-related plots and big, "tribal" families have been made as well.
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- CreatorBill DubuqueMark WilliamsStarsJason BatemanLaura LinneySofia HublitzA financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.
- CreatorPaul AbbottJohn WellsStarsEmmy RossumWilliam H. MacyEthan CutkoskyA scrappy, feisty, fiercely loyal Chicago family makes no apologies.
- CreatorJesse ArmstrongStarsNicholas BraunBrian CoxKieran CulkinThe Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.
- CreatorPeter MorganStarsClaire FoyOlivia ColmanImelda StauntonFollows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.
- CreatorJulian FellowesStarsHugh BonnevillePhyllis LoganElizabeth McGovernA chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- CreatorJohn LinsonTaylor SheridanStarsKevin CostnerLuke GrimesKelly ReillyA ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.
- CreatorDan FogelmanStarsMilo VentimigliaMandy MooreSterling K. BrownA heartwarming and emotional story about a unique set of triplets, their struggles, and their wonderful parents.
- CreatorAlan BallStarsPeter KrauseMichael C. HallFrances ConroyA chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.
- CreatorJenji KohanStarsMary-Louise ParkerHunter ParrishAlexander GouldWhen a suburban mother turns to dealing marijuana in order to maintain her privileged lifestyle after her husband dies, she finds out just how addicted her entire neighborhood already is.
- CreatorTaylor SheridanStarsTim McGrawSam ElliottFaith HillThe post-Civil war generation of the Dutton family travels to Texas, and joins a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon, before settling in Montana to establish what would eventually become the Yellowstone Ranch.
- CreatorIrwin AllenMatt SazamaBurk SharplessStarsToby StephensMolly ParkerMaxwell JenkinsAfter crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fight against all odds to survive and escape, but they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
- CreatorKrishna D.K.Raj NidimoruStarsManoj BajpayeeSamantha Ruth PrabhuPriyamaniA working man from the National Investigation Agency tries to protect the nation from terrorism, but he also needs to keep his family safe from his secret job.
- CreatorRobert RodatStarsNoah WyleDrew RoyMaxim KnightSurvivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
- CreatorAnn BidermanStarsLiev SchreiberEddie MarsanDash MihokRay Donovan, a professional "fixer" for the rich and famous in Los Angeles, can make anyone's problems disappear except those created by his own family.
- CreatorKelly MarcelCraig SilversteinStarsJason O'MaraShelley ConnChristine AdamsCenters on the Shannons, an ordinary family from 2149 when the planet is dying, who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization.
- CreatorSarah LampertStarsBrianne HoweyAntonia GentryFelix MallardGinny Miller, an angsty fifteen-year-old, often feels more mature than her thirty-year-old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller.
- CreatorGlenn KesslerTodd A. KesslerDaniel ZelmanStarsKyle ChandlerBen MendelsohnLinda CardelliniA family is forced to face their past secrets and scars when the black sheep returns home.
- CreatorNeil JordanStarsJeremy IronsFrançois ArnaudHolliday GraingerIn the fifteenth century, Pope Alexander VI tries to control all power in Italy with the help of his several sons, through murder, intrigue, war, and marriage alliances.
- CreatorDanny McBrideStarsJohn GoodmanDanny McBrideAdam DevineFollows a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work.
- CreatorTaylor SheridanStarsHarrison FordHelen MirrenBrandon SklenarThe Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.
- CreatorJonathan LiscoStarsShawn HatosyBen RobsonJake WearyCenters on a Southern California family, whose excessive lifestyle is fueled by their criminal activities.
- CreatorHugh DillonTaylor SheridanStarsJeremy RennerHugh DillonTobi BamtefaThe McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.
- CreatorJim PattersonDon ReoStarsAshton KutcherSam ElliottGrady Lee RichmondThe son of a Colorado rancher returns home from a semi-pro football career to run the family business.
- CreatorLee DanielsDanny StrongStarsTerrence HowardTaraji P. HensonJussie SmollettA hip-hop mogul must choose a successor among his three sons who are battling for control over his multi-million dollar company, while his ex-wife schemes to reclaim what is hers.
- CreatorRyan J. CondalCarlton CuseStarsJosh HollowaySarah Wayne CalliesPeter JacobsonIn the wake of a mysterious alien invasion, a family fights to stay together in a new world order.
- CreatorTodd HelbingGreg BerlantiStarsTyler HoechlinElizabeth TullochAlex GarfinThe world's most famous superhero and comic books' most famous journalist face the pressures and complexities that come with balancing work, justice, and parenthood in today's society.
- CreatorJason KatimsStarsPeter KrauseLauren GrahamDax ShepardThe lives and tragedies of the Braverman family tree.
- CreatorBrian WatkinsStarsJosh BrolinTamara PodemskiImogen PootsA rancher fighting for his land and family discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming's wilderness.
- CreatorGlenn Gordon CaronStarsPatricia ArquetteMiguel SandovalJake WeberSuburban mom Allison DuBois attempts to balance family life with solving mysteries using her special gift. The dead send her visions of their deaths or other crimes while she sleeps.
- CreatorBradley BredewegPeter PaigeStarsTeri PoloSherri SaumHayden ByerlyTeenager Callie Jacob is placed in a foster home with a lesbian couple and their blend of biological, adoptive, and foster children.
- CreatorBrenda HamptonStarsStephen CollinsCatherine HicksJessica BielEric Camden, a minister, and his wife Annie deal with the drama of having seven children, ranging from toddlers to adults with families of their own.
- CreatorLizzy WeissStarsKatie LeclercVanessa MaranoConstance MarieTwo teenage girls' lives are turned upside down when they find out they were switched at birth.
- CreatorBlanche HanalisStarsMelissa GilbertMichael LandonKaren GrassleThe life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.
- CreatorJon Robin BaitzStarsDave AnnableCalista FlockhartRachel GriffithsThe story of the drama surrounding a family's adult siblings.
- CreatorSallie PatrickStephanie SavageJosh SchwartzStarsElizabeth GilliesRafael de la FuenteRobert Christopher RileyFollows two of America's wealthiest families as they feud for control over their fortune and their children.
- CreatorHoward GordonGideon RaffCraig WrightStarsAdam RaynerJennifer FinniganAshraf BarhomAn unassuming American family is drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.
- CreatorJoey SolowayStarsJeffrey TamborAmy LandeckerGaby HoffmannAn L.A. family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
- CreatorMark V. OlsenWill SchefferStarsBill PaxtonJeanne TripplehornChloë SevignyA Utah polygamist who owns home improvement stores in the Salt Lake City area juggles relationships with three wives while trying to keep his complex family life from becoming a public scandal.
- StarsMark RuffaloJohn ProcaccinoRob HuebelFollowing the parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in a story of betrayal, sacrifice, and forgiveness.
- CreatorLeslie BohemStarsDakota FanningMatt FrewerEmily BerglThree families experience alien abductions over a period of five decades.
- StarsGülse BirselLevent ÜzümcüSenay GürlerThe life and times of the rather traditional Sutcuoglu family and their comedic struggles to adapt the high-profile contemporary life of Nisantasi.
- CreatorDave HolsteinStarsJim CarreyFrank LangellaJudy GreerJeff, a famous children's television icon, struggles to retain his sanity as his family falls apart.
- CreatorMurray ShostakStarsAmber MarshallShaun JohnstonMichelle MorganA multi-generational saga set in Alberta, Canada and centered on a family getting through life together in both happy and trying times.
- StarsLeVar BurtonRobert ReedJohn AmosA dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
- CreatorJon Harmon FeldmanStarsEliza DushkuShawn ReavesZach GalifianakisA university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
- CreatorGreg BerlantiJon Harmon FeldmanStarsMichael ChiklisJulie BenzKay PanabakerThe Powells are a typical American family living in Pacific Bay, California, whose members gain special powers after their plane crashes in the Amazon.
- CreatorDJ NashStarsDavid GiuntoliRomany MalcoAllison MillerA group of friends becomes motivated to live fuller lives after the unexpected death of a close friend.
- CreatorDavid JacobsStarsLarry HagmanKen KerchevalPatrick DuffyJ.R. Ewing, a Texas oil baron, uses manipulation and blackmail to achieve his ambitions, both business and personal. He often comes into conflict with his brother Bobby, his arch-enemy Cliff Barnes and his long-suffering wife Sue Ellen.
- CreatorTom BissellNeil CrossStarsJustin TherouxMelissa GeorgeLogan PolishFollows the dangerous journey of a radical idealist and brilliant inventor, Allie Fox, who uproots his family for Mexico when they suddenly find themselves on the run from the US government.
- CreatorGreg BerlantiStarsTreat WilliamsGregory SmithEmily VanCampA widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan moves his two children to the small mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.
- StarsSatish KaushikAshutosh RanaPaoli DamA deadly fire accident at the Roy Group of Industries brings Bhisham Roy under the scanner, inciting a power grab where it's blood versus blood.
- CreatorDavid AppelbaumStarsEoin MackenChiké OkonkwoZyra GoreckiA massive sinkhole mysteriously opens up in Los Angeles, separating part of a family in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a desperate group of strangers.
- CreatorApril BlairStarsDaniel EzraSamantha LoganMichael Evans BehlingWhen a star high school football player from South Central is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School, two separate worlds collide.
- StarsKeeley HawesJosh O'ConnorMilo ParkerLouisa Durrell raises her four children single-handedly after her husband's death. Following a financial crisis, the family moves to the Greek island of Corfu and tries to adapt to life there.
- CreatorAndy BorowitzSusan BorowitzT.J. BradyStarsJabari BanksCassandra FreemanJimmy AkingbolaThe journey of a street-smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of West Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA's wealthiest suburbs.
- CreatorKaran AnshumanStarsVenkatesh DaggubatiRana DaggubatiSurveen ChawlaIn the complicated world of celebrities, Rana Naidu is the go-to problem-solver. When his father is released from prison, Rana grapples with family secrets and personal conflict and realizes that the only problem he can't fix is his own.
- StarsSerban PavluMaria ObretinAndreea VasileUmbre follows Relu, an enforcer for a small-time mob boss, as he struggles to keep his family in the dark about his job. The secrets Relu keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface.
- CreatorChristopher KeyserAmy LippmanStarsMatthew FoxScott WolfNeve CampbellFive siblings raise each other following their parents' untimely deaths.
- StarsAdriana OzoresAmaia SalamancaYon GonzálezA family-owned hotel in the fictional coastal Spanish town of Cantaloa in 1905: love, blackmail, jealousies, crime, comedy, and plots and counter-plots all involving the hotel's owners, guests, detectives, and residential employees.
- CreatorEd BurnsDavid SimonStarsWinona RyderAnthony BoyleZoe KazanCharacters live in an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt was defeated in the U.S. presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh.
- StarsLee Min-hoChoi Joon-YoungSoji AraiBased on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.
- CreatorCynthia CidreDavid JacobsStarsJosh HendersonJesse MetcalfeJordana BrewsterThe next generation of the Ewing family, cousins John Ross Ewing and Christopher Ewing, clash over the family's oil business and vast fortune.
- CreatorDavid DortortFred HamiltonStarsLorne GreeneMichael LandonDan BlockerThe Wild West adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community.
- StarsRichard ChamberlainRachel WardChristopher PlummerIn the arid 1920s Australian Outback, a Catholic priest and the beautiful niece of a vast sheep station owner stand powerless before God's will, tormented by desire. How far are they willing to go in the name of love?
- CreatorDan FuttermanStarsJeff DanielsMaura TierneyDavid AlvarezA compelling family drama that explores the tattered American dream through the eyes of complicated and compromised Chief of Police Del Harris in a Rust Belt town in southwest Pennsylvania.
- CreatorJohn TinkerNancey SilversStarsMeghan OryBarbara NivenLaci J MaileyA young woman returns to her hometown to help save her sister's failing inn, where she contends with memories and faces from her past.
- CreatorEarl Hamner Jr.StarsJon WalmsleyMary Beth McDonoughEric ScottThe life and trials of a 1930s and 1940s Virginia mountain family through financial depression and World War II.
- CreatorIrwin AllenStarsGuy WilliamsJune LockhartMark GoddardA space colony family struggles to survive when a spy/accidental stowaway throws their ship hopelessly off course.
- CreatorRoope LehtinenMikko PölläGábor KriglerStarsSzabolcs ThuróczyEszter ÓnodiRenátó OlaszA corrupt businessman and family man attempts to navigate his way through increasing domestic, legal, and financial problems.
- StarsJonathan Rhys MeyersMalachi KirbyForest WhitakerAn adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots." Chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America.
- CreatorEsther ShapiroRichard Alan ShapiroStarsJohn ForsytheLinda EvansJoan CollinsThe trials and tribulations of two feuding families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, both oil rich families in Denver, Colorado.
- CreatorWilliam J. BellLee Phillip BellStarsKatherine Kelly LangRonn MossJohn McCookThe saga of high fashion glamour, honor, romance, passion, and most importantly, family.
- CreatorOri ElonYehonatan IndurskyStarsDoval'e GlickmanMichael AloniNeta RiskinA Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckons with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life.
- CreatorSimon BeaufoyStarsHarris DickinsonDonald SutherlandHilary SwankIn 1973 Rome, John Paul Getty III, the heir and younger member of an oil tycoons' clan, is kidnapped by the Italian Mafia in order to get a ransom.
- CreatorTerri MinskyEmily SilverStarsKathryn PrescottCynthia WatrosAnna Jacoby-HeronA teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.
- CreatorAmy BrennemanBill D'EliaBarbara HallStarsAmy BrennemanTyne DalyKarle WarrenA family drama focused on three generations of women living together in Hartford, Connecticut.
- CreatorLee Phillip BellWilliam J. BellStarsEric BraedenDoug DavidsonPeter BergmanSet in Genoa City, this is the long-running soap that tells the story of the struggle behind the business, and sex-savvy Abbott and Newman clans.
- CreatorHeidi ThomasStarsKeeley HawesEd StoppardAdrian ScarboroughA new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936.
- CreatorMohsen TanabandehStarsAtefeh KhobaniMohsen TanabandehRima RaminfarThe story of life of Naghi Ma'mouli, his wife Homa Sa'adat, their children Sara and Nika, his Alzheimer's father Panjali, his cousin Arastou, his sister Fahimeh, his sister's husband Behboud, his nieces Behtash and Behboud and his friend Rahmat. Their face different problems in each seasons.
- StarsTürkan SoraySener SenNedim SabanOne day, a mother of two children, Hanim starts to work in "Antep Sofrasi"; a Turkish kebab restaurant which a father of three girls Ali Haydar owns. While he is thickheaded, a bit angry, but kind, honest and generous; she is quick tempered but so sentimental and fragile also. They fell in love; to live their "Second Chance"s in life.
- CreatorWill SharpeStarsSophia Di MartinoOlivia ColmanJulian BarrattDark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.
- StarsÖner ErkanSongül ÖdenHaluk BilginerIn the haze of a midlife crisis, an architect begins living a double life as a punk while members of his family lead their own crisis-ridden lives.
- StarsDamian LewisRupert GravesGina McKeeChronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
- CreatorCraig WrightStarsMerle DandridgeKim HawthorneDesiree RossThe unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, dark secrets, and lies.
- CreatorAaron GuzikowskiStarsMartin HendersonJason MomoaJulianne NicholsonA local policeman tries to cope with the problems within his family while the growing tension in community leads to bloodshed.
- CreatorAitor GabilondoStarsJose CoronadoÁlex GonzálezClaudia TraisacNemo Bandeira, a dealer with a clean businessman facade, is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and tries to keep it from his family while he starts to think about who might be his successor.
- StarsAyça BingölYildiz Çagri AtiksoyAras Bulut IynemliSet in the 1960, the series follows the dramatic changes to the lives of the Akarsu family after the patriarch's extra marital affair.
- CreatorAva DuVernayStarsRutina WesleyKofi SiriboeOmar J. DorseyFollows the life of three siblings, one of whom moves from Los Angeles to Louisiana to claim a shared inheritance from their recently departed father: an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
- CreatorManolo CaroStarsCecilia SuárezErnesto AlterioAlejandro SpeitzerThe story begins with a young boy being asked by his parents to return to Spain to meet his fiance. He returns accompanied by Lazaro, a mysterious ballet dancer.
- CreatorUlf KvenslerMalin NevanderJohan RosenlindStarsHedda StiernstedtCharlie GustafssonAnna BjelkerudStockholm, the day of peace in Europe 1945. A spontaneous kiss between two strangers, during the celebration at Kungsgatan, will have major consequences.
- StarsJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhRosemary HarrisThe saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
- CreatorDan CurtisStarsJonathan FridGrayson HallAlexandra IslesThe rich Collins family of Collinsport, Maine is tormented by strange occurrences.
- CreatorJenna BansStarsJoan AllenRupert GravesAlison PillA community is rattled when a politician's son, who was presumed murdered years ago, returns home.
- CreatorTommy LynchStarsGabrielle ChristianMandy MusgraveMatt CohenA family moves from Ohio to Los Angeles, where they realize they are unprepared for the city's fast pace and the overcrowded public school that the three teenagers will attend.
- StarsJørgen BuckhøjBuster LarsenGhita NørbyA man comes to Korsbæk, Denmark, in 1929, opens a women's clothing store in competition with an established one - bringing him up against the conservative establishment including the bank manager. We follow the families until after WWII.
- CreatorAlan BallStarsTim RobbinsHolly HunterDaniel ZovattoA dark dramedy about a progressive Portlandian family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Liberia, Vietnam and Colombia, and one biological daughter, who find their sanity tested and values challenged in 2018 America.
- CreatorJames E. ReillyStarsLindsay HartleyMcKenzie WestmoreGalen GeringIn the world of power and money, the wealthy and powerful Crane family rule the town of Harmony from their mansion on Raven Hill.
- StarsIgal NaorShohreh AghdashlooMakram KhouryA mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisors.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsKathy BakerTom SkerrittLauren HollyAn aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
- StarsEmin OlcayEngin YükselNuray UsluA couple with no kids, four city girls and three country boys, all under the same roof: arguing, fighting and sometimes understanding they are not that much different.