Best Dark Family

The Black Donnellys is a neo-noir crime drama exploring the dark legacy of a wealthy American family involved in organized crime. Set in the early 2000s, the limited-series examines intergenerational criminal behavior and familial secrets through the lens of the Donnelly clan’s activities. It's prim...

Long before Rikuo Nura was born, the legendary youkai Nurarihyon, leader of a "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons," fell in love with a human woman. Though the two would initially find happiness, a threat from the terrifying fox-demon Hagoromo Gitsune would get in the way of their relationship. In t...

The Good Daughter is a 2017 standalone crime thriller by Karin Slaughter. It follows sisters Charlotte and Samantha Quinn, whose childhood was defined by a violent attack on their family, and returns to their relationship when another act of violence brings buried memories into the present. The nove...

Curse of the Starving Class is a 1977 play by American dramatist Sam Shepard and the first work commonly grouped within his family trilogy. It portrays the Tate family, whose deteriorating California farm becomes the focus of competing plans, debts, schemes, and attempts at escape. Through dark humo...

Coraline is a 2009 stop-motion animated dark fantasy film directed and written for the screen by Henry Selick, based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 novella. It was the first feature produced by Laika and follows Coraline Jones, a girl who enters a parallel version of her home where seemingly ideal parents co...

This monologue occurs near the climax of "Buried Child," a 1978 play by Sam Shepard that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Spoken by the family patriarch Dodge, the speech reveals a dark secret that has haunted the family's Illinois farmhouse for decades. He confesses to the infanticide of a child b...

Kazuma Yagami is a user of "Fuujutsu," the ability to control the wind. He returns to his old home, the noble Kannagi household, after being banished four years ago for his inability to control fire and his subsequent defeat in a duel at the hands of his younger cousin, Ayano Kannagi. Returning afte...

The War at Home is a 1996 American drama directed by Emilio Estevez. It centers on a Vietnam veteran whose unresolved trauma and anger erupt during a tense Thanksgiving gathering with his family. The film uses the domestic setting to examine the effects of war on veterans and relatives, including co...