Movies like The Misfortunates

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.

When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge... and along comes Rita.

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.