Movies with Dysfunctional-Family Mood

To escape her family's plan to marry her off, Lynn Shaw seeks help from Caleb, the CEO of Langdon Group, who happens to be passing by. Moved by her plight, Caleb rescues her and enrolls her in a private school under his company. Despite facing discrimination and bullying at school and being forced by her mother to work part-time, Lynn's path crosses with Caleb's once more. As they spend more time together, their relationship blossoms into a mutual affection.

After returning home, Lee Group CEO Esther is publicly humiliated by a woman claiming to be her son's wife. She soon discovers her son's affair and his plan to use her welcome-back party to legitimize his mistress. Esther stays silent and strikes back at the party, stripping her son of succession and naming her daughter-in-law Rachel as the new heir.

Banished from the heavens for meddling in divine gossip, the god of wealth reincarnated as Penny, a newlywed rural girl who was unwelcome by her in-laws and ultimately killed by her husband's childhood sweetheart. Now reborn, Penny decides to rewrite her fate. However, the Shane family discovers they can hear her thoughts! Initially skeptical and dismissive of Penny's warnings, they gradually realize the truth as her thoughts repeatedly prove accurate, turning their world upside down.

In her past life, she and her husband grew up as adoptive siblings, became spouses, and spent a lifetime together until old age. When both are reborn, she believes fate has given them a second chance only to discover that he has always had a woman he couldn't forget. This time, he abandons her without hesitation. Left behind, she is adopted into another family and chooses to walk a completely different path, starting a new life without him.

Dustin Curran felt like a spare son. He was sent to his grandfather in the countryside right after his birth, while his parents raised his adopted brother by their side. When he returned home after his grandfather passed away, he was immediately cast into the Clearwind Sect, where he improved his cultivation. One day, his parents suddenly showed up and demended him to wed Linda Collins, who was terminally ill. But Dustin is no longer the spare son they dismissed. They begged him to leave the sect, only to regret it.

On the day of her wedding to Lucas Kirk, Angelina Alvarez, daughter of a billionaire, faces shocking accusations about the paternity of her unborn child. Defying medical advice, the Kirk family pressures her into an amniocentesis. Thankfully, her father's medical team intervenes, ensuring the child's safety and leaving the Kirk family full of remorse. Empowered by her newfound independence, Angelina inherits her family's fortune and embarks on a journey to live life by her own rules.

On her son's wedding anniversary, mahjong-obsessed Grace leaves her granddaughter Coco alone in the kitchen. When Coco video-calls her mother, Rachel, she senses danger, but the call cuts off. Grace ignores repeated calls, and Rachel‘s husband Luke dismisses her concerns while out with his first love. By the time Rachel arrives, Coco has died from gas poisoning, exposing a tragedy born of neglect and blind obedience.

Marian Wilson, a resilient single mother, strives to raise her daughter Grace and stepdaughter Melly after her partner passed away. As she juggles cleaning jobs and scrap sales to make ends meet, Grace abandons her sister on purpose just because she's a well-behaved girl. Years later, desperate to marry into wealth, Grace chooses to hide her identity and claims to be an orphan. But secrets have a way of surfacing. Now she's going to beg her mom for forgiveness.

Blessed with rare fertility, Sylvia Sims was destined to marry Hugh, the adopted heir of Marquis Ethan McCarthy. Yet on their wedding day, Hugh demanded to take a concubine alongside her. Refusing to share her husband, Sylvia boldly called off the marriage—and instead wed the Marquis himself. Enraged, Hugh schemed to ruin them, only to be stripped of his title in disgrace. Meanwhile, Sylvia joyfully conceived the Marquis's own heir, securing a legacy of love and power.

Clara, true heiress of the affluent Sinclair family, was switched at birth by a nanny and grew up in hardship in the countryside. Just as she was found by the Sinclairs, the false heiress Yasmin, desperate to hide her true origins, kills her own parents and frames Clara for the murder, resulting in a three-year prison sentence. Upon her release, Clara finds her family absent, celebrating Yasmin's birthday instead. Determined to reclaim her rightful place, Clara vows to expose Yasmin's deceit and rebuild her life, skillfully turning the tables to reclaim her ultimate destiny.