The Madness of Modern Families

Animal Super Parents

Documentary revealing the weird and wonderful stories of some of the natural world's most incredible parents.

2014

Jon Richardson Grows Up

Comedian Jon Richardson and his friend Matt Forde face up to the adult realities of mortgages, marriage and parenthood.

Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood with My Father

6.7

2024

Jack Whitehall: Fatherhood with My Father

Jack Whitehall and his father embark on a globe-trotting trip to find answers to the big questions facing the comedian after becoming a dad.

6.3

1987

thirtysomething

Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.

6.8

Breeders

Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.

6.5

2001

According to Jim

Jim is the typical all-American guy — a macho "everyman" — with a soft spot for his beautiful wife and children. Jim's boyish bravado and humorous antics keep a certain level of turmoil in their home, but there's never a doubt that this "opposites attract" couple are in their marriage for keeps!

6.9

2005

The War at Home

When Dave and Vicky were growing up, their parents had it easy. Back then, there were no “time-outs,” no one had any “boundaries,” and “parenting” wasn’t even a word. Parents had no idea what their kids were really up to and ignorance truly was bliss. Now Dave and Vicky have teenagers of their own, and anything their kids might even think about doing, Dave and Vicky have already done… at least twice.

2021

#bemyfamily

A new-age home drama that depicts a group of new single fathers and mothers, each with their own worries and secrets, raising their children together under one roof and becoming a "family".

7.0

Supernanny

Supernanny Jo Frost advises and guides parents through the trials and tribulations of parenting.

7.8

Kakushigoto

Single father Kakushi Goto has a secret. He’s a top-selling artist of popular erotic manga, but his impressionable young daughter, Hime, can never find out! Now he’s having to bend over backwards just to keep her inquisitive little mind from discovering what he does for a living.

6.7

2025

Playing Nice

Set against a sweeping Cornish landscape, two couples discover that their toddlers were switched at birth in a hospital mix-up, and face a horrifying dilemma: do they keep the sons they have raised and loved, or reclaim their biological child?

2022

Garde partagée

This sketch series explores with humour the touching daily lives of part-time parents and their realities and desires as they share custody of their kids.

8.4

2024

Unknown

Wei Qian, thrust into adulthood after losing his parents, faces turmoil when his adopted brother Xiao Yuan confesses feelings, challenging family bonds and emotions.

2010

Dad Camp

Dad Camp is a docureality show that attempts to transform six irresponsible soon-to-be dads into respectable fathers. Young, unprepared fathers-to-be are asked to embrace their looming responsibility as a parent before it's too late. With their pregnant girlfriends by their sides, the guys move into the same house to face a variety of tough, progressive lessons in parenting, honesty and maturity developed by clinical psychologist and relationship expert Dr. Jeff Gardere. Once the therapy is complete, each girlfriend decides if her relationship is worth saving or if she wants to raise her child alone.

2008

The Baby Borrowers

The Baby Borrowers is an American version of the The Baby Borrowers reality television show based on the British television series of the same name originally aired in 2007. The show features five couples aged between 18 and 20 who either believe that being parents is easy, or are divided upon the issue. They start off attempting to look after a baby for three days, before moving onto toddlers, pre-teens, teenagers and finally an elderly person. The show is produced by Love Productions, the same company that produces the original British version. On March 13, 2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled and would not be returning for a second season.

7.2

2017

Motherland

Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.

2017

Big Little Lies

The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.

There Goes the Motherhood

Follow six dynamic Los Angeles mothers, who meet through parenting expert Jill Spivack's highly-coveted, eight-week course.

6.8

Aishiteruze Baby

Kippei is a ladies man. Always in trouble for flirting in class, after class, anytime he can. So it is some big surprise to him when he gets saddled with watching Yuzuyu, a cute little girl.Yuzuyu`s mother has gone missing, and so Kippei`s family is watching her until her mother can be found. Of course, since Kippei could use a few lessons in responsibility, he is the "best" choice for the job.This story is working out to be very cute. Kippei`s natural "mother" instinct is really brought to the front while trying to to his best for Yuzuyu, but he is a boy. His ineptitude regarding the smallest things a mother would need to know [like packing a lunch for school] are endearing rather than hokey, and the character of Yuzuyu is cute, without being overly so.

6.2

Beautiful Loser

Julien, a 31 year old man who is everything else but grown-up. Without a job and without money has he just been more or less forced to move back home to his mom in his home town. Back there he happens to meet his first young love, Marie who works as a teacher at their old college. She reveals a secret, that well, sets a new point in his life. We get to follow this kindhearted irresponsible man that struggles through his daily life which never seems to go his way.

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8.0

1978

Top Gear

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8.1

2005

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6.6

2019

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8.7

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2005

Deadly Women

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2006

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8.2

Earth at Night in Colour

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7.4

2023

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6.5

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8.8

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8.2

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