Movies with Dysfunctional-Family Mood

Who would have thought that the "useless cultivation partner," publicly divorced by the Empress, would become an Immortal Emperor seen only once in a million years? Ivy Hartwell believed that abandoning Adrian Mercer, who was merely at the Saint Realm, would allow her to focus wholeheartedly on becoming an emperor. What she didn’t realize was that the one she cast aside was a peerless pillar, an unrivaled backing capable of protecting her and sweeping through the Immortal Palaces with ease…

The Queen's husband Varen cheated on her with her sister Seralith. They swapped the babies to seize the throne. The Queen knew and switched the babies back. 16 years on, Seralith tortured Wren, her own daughter, draining her blood for elixirs while treating Aurelia like her treasure, the Queen's child. Later, the Spirit Mirror revealed the truth, and Seralith collapsed. Wren started hating everybody. She killed Seralith and wanted to ruin everything.

Born unwanted by her family, Zoey is betrayed by her brother and left with nothing. At her lowest, she meets Steven, a cold billionaire who keeps everyone away. Their fateful encounter brings two hearts together, helping them heal, love, and rewrite their destiny.

The wealthy heir seeks revenge on the family that abandoned him. He also gets back at those who humiliated him as a live-in husband, becoming the most powerful freeloading husband.

Returning from three years of exile, Evelyn no longer resisted the torment and punishments, choosing instead to submit to it all. What her family didn't know was that she had awakened a system that converted her pain into cash rewards. The day she accumulated enough pain points would be the day she finally left them for good.

Tessa is pushed off a building by her adopted sister Chloe. She wakes up at fifteen, reliving her life. This time, she refuses to fight for her family's love. Chloe manipulates everyone, framing Tessa for cheating. Tessa calmly proves Chloe's guilt using surveillance footage. Chloe is expelled. Tessa earns straight A's and a Yale scholarship. Her family apologizes, but she remains distant. She leaves for Yale alone, determined to live for herself.

Little Lily is ignored by her wolf parents, who devote everything to her sick older sister. When Lily says another father and mother live inside the moon-silver mirror, her real parents call her a liar and lock her away. But the mirror family is real. They feed her, comfort her, and offer the love she never received at home. After one final betrayal, Lily chooses the mirror and disappears. Her birth parents spend years drowning in regret, only to learn the “monsters” were future wolf parents searching for abandoned pups. By the time they understand, Lily has found a real home.

For three excruciating years, heiress Sienna Barrett drained her devoted husband Callum’s blood and stripped away his kidney to keep her sickly first love, Gavin, alive. Broken and near death, Callum escaped back to his quiet hometown, dying in his younger brother Rowan's arms. When Sienna arrives expecting Callum to sacrifice his bone marrow next, Rowan delivers the devastating truth: Callum is already buried under the old oak tree. As Gavin's deadly lies unravel and the crushing guilt sets in, Sienna turns herself in—realizing too late that no tears can ever bring back the man who loved her to death.

Six years after his fiancée Hazel and younger brother Austin allegedly died, Ethan discovers they faked their deaths to be together with his parents' full support. Treated as an unwanted burden and falsely accused of harming his brother, Ethan endures relentless emotional abuse. Pushed to the brink, he calmly accepts his impending death, leaving behind a tragic masterpiece, The Way Home. Only after Ethan’s body is cremated do his remorseful parents and heartbroken ex-fiancée uncover Austin's sinister manipulations. Left with nothing, his family is consumed by eternal guilt and ruin.

In my past life, my husband's niece drowned my newborn. To protect their precious heiress, the mafia family told me to let it go. When I refused, my own husband murdered me. Now, I’ve been reborn on the morning it all happened. This time, I secretly send my son to my father, the most powerful Mafia Godfather in the city. But when I return to the party, another baby still ends up in the pool. Predictably, my husband and his family rush to destroy the body to cover it up. Now there's just one question: whose child did their golden girl really kill?