Before most of the family leave Igbo Landingto settle in the North, matriarch Nana ensures they remember their Gulah heriatge from Africa.
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023)
Gus dies so most of the family accept an invitation to return to his Greek home town & pass on his journal to his friends, with funny results.
AVATAR: The Way of Water (2022)
The Na’vi family has to flee to a distant land of water & learn new ways when the humans return to Pandora’s moon to rape it for minerals.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
In this dramedy a Chinese American woman, regarded as a failure, must jump between multiple universes to save the multiverse from destruction, her opponents often members of her own family plus an aggressive IRS agent.
Servant of the People (2015-2019) Part 2
When a history teacher suddenly is elected Ukrainian President, he finds fighting corruption harder than expected, even as members of his own family try to cash in.
Imperial Dreams (2014)
A just out of jail father, who dreams of becoming a writer, reconnects with his son but has to live in his car when he refuses his uncle’s demand to help in his drug business.
Uncle Frank (2020)
Southerner Frank, estranged from his father Frank over his homosexuality, returns with his niece & lover for the old man’s funeral.
Beyond the Wall (2018)
Interviews with Substance Abuse Counselor/Reentry Specialist Louie Diaz & several former prisoners in MA reveal the difficulties of prisoners reentering society.
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
The turbulent early life of a “hillbilly” boy whose drug-addicted mother almost caused him to miss his Yale law degree.
Borgen (2010)
The series tells the story of the ups & downs of Denmark’s first female PM & the cost of her power to herself and to each member of her family–husband, teenage daughter, and 8-year-old son.