Movies and TvShows featuring "controlling-parent" theme.

Girl in the Basement is a psychological thriller based on a true story. It follows the horrifying ordeal of a teenage girl who is held captive in her father's basement. She struggles to survive, facing abuse and manipulation from her controlling father. As the story unfolds, we witness her fight for freedom and the devastating impact it has on her life.

Mai Chenghuan, a post-95 girl born into an ordinary family in Shanghai, agrees to marry her boyfriend, Xin Jialiang, under her mother’s urging. However, the economic gap between them creates an imbalance in their relationship, ultimately leading to its end. Mai Chenghuan then gains her grandmother's approval and is entrusted with the heavy responsibility of managing a hotel. Through cooperation, Mai Chenghuan and the professional hotel manager Yao Zhiming become working partners and go hand in hand. Mai Chenghuan transitions from being under her family's control to achieving self-fulfillment, forging her own path.

Qiao Fei, an ambitious French postgraduate student, dreams of becoming a professional interpreter. Under the mentorship of Cheng Jiayang, a brilliant interpreter and a foreign minister's son, she develops her skills and growing affection for him. However, their relationship faces obstacles based on family expectations. With the support of a friend, Jiayang must decide whether to follow his heart or meet his family's demands.

Set in Jiudaowan, this story follows a group of young people over 40 years of reform and opening up. Through life's struggles, the twists and turns of love, and the challenges of their careers, these true friends face it all together, growing and maturing into adulthood.

The bridegroom who concealed his identity and the fake bride who replaced her elder sister. After a variety of experiences on the emotional road of marriage first and then love, the two got caught in the emotional game of cat and mouse. Will they choose to stay together for a lifetime?

The McCarthys follows a Boston family, the McCarthys, who are loud, loving, and quirky. The show centers around Ronny, the openly gay son who wants to move away from his sports-crazed family. However, he ends up being asked by his father to be the assistant basketball coach at his high school. Ronny's twin brother Sean is the head coach, their sister Jackie is a tomboy and former basketball star, and their overly competitive older brother Gerard is also part of the mix. Their mother Marjorie is a strong-willed woman who does her best to keep everyone together while dealing with her husband Arthur's controlling ways. The McCarthys is a hilarious sitcom with plenty of family dynamics, sibling rivalry, and heartwarming moments.

After getting engaged, Charlotte meets her fiancé's mother, who will stop at nothing to sabotage their relationship. Through a series of comedic events, Charlotte must navigate her way through her future mother-in-law's schemes and save her relationship.

A winter-summer romance between an 20-year-old girl, He Ran, and a middle-aged man, Xiao Han. They both took a chance on each other; love and passion followed. Where would their story go in a sea of paint and flowers?

The Abe family consists of French Toma, his Japanese wife Mikiko and their beautiful daughter Yuko. They appear like the perfect family. However, things start to change when Mikiko manages to get her daughter in show business.

The setting of the drama takes place 10 years after the F4 graduated from Eitoku Academy. Edogawa Oto is the daughter of a former company president. Her life completely changed after their family business went bankrupt. Her fiance is Hase Tenma, the popular student council president of the rival school. With declining enrollment due to a recession and the rise of a rival school, Eitoku Academy is now ruled by the Correct5 whose leader is Kakuragi Haruto. The group seeks out, then runs out, any students whose families haven’t made appropriate donations to the school. When Haruto and Oto discover each other’s secrets — that Haruto buys self-help items to get stronger, and that Oto is poor and works at a convenience store – they promise to keep each other’s secret.

New female teacher became a target of a trouble making gifted student's bullying. But their confrontations soon developed a romantic undertone and they began to have a secret affair that played fast and loose with their feelings.

Two ignorant science students tried to prove the existence of love with scientific methods, but sparks of love appeared during the experiment. They fought and fought all the way, harvested love, and healed each other. No matter how high the IQ of a scientific research talent is, how shaky their love relationship is!

In The Jazz Singer, a young Jewish man named Jakie Rabinowitz wants to break free from his family's restrictive traditions and follow his passion for jazz singing. Despite his father's disapproval, Jakie leaves home and embarks on a journey to become a successful performer. Along the way, he faces numerous challenges and conflicts, including struggles with his identity, conflicts with his domineering mother, and the pressure to conform to societal norms. Ultimately, Jakie must confront his own fears and make difficult choices that test his loyalty to both his family and his dreams.

Mommie Dearest is a biographical drama film that explores the tumultuous relationship between actress Joan Crawford and her adopted daughter Christina. The story delves into the abusive and controlling behavior displayed by Joan Crawford as she strives for perfection and fame in Hollywood. The movie showcases the psychological horrors endured by Christina, highlighting themes of child abuse, adoption, and mother-daughter estrangement.

Operation Negligee is a comedy film released in 1968. The movie revolves around the life of a group of friends who come up with a plan to save their failing business by creating a line of designer negligees. As they dive into the world of fashion and face hilarious hurdles along the way, their friendship is put to the test. With witty dialogues and memorable characters, Operation Negligee offers a fun-filled and entertaining experience.

Set in the 1960s, junior high schooler Dean strikes up a friendship with the vibrant yet reckless Roy, in an effort to escape his mother’s controlling grasp. But when the boys’ friendship threatens Dean’s budding romance with Beth and his own well-being, Dean must find his own voice, or risk following Roy down an increasingly dangerous path.

an adaptation of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca. After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba imposes eight years mourning period upon her household as the tradition runs in her family. In a household of 5 girls their mother and their grandma the tension and the deprivation arise as the mourning period isolate them from the rest of the village and deprive them of any male contact.