Family Saga
by Skavation | created - 5 months ago | updated - 5 months ago | PublicFamily Saga is a sweeping and expansive genre that delves into the intricate dynamics, trials, and triumphs of multiple generations within a family. It spans decades or even centuries, tracing the lineage of a family through various historical, social, and personal transformations. These narratives often unfold across several episodes or films, capturing the evolution of familial bonds, traditions, conflicts, and legacies.
At its core, a Family Saga focuses on the interconnected lives of family members, exploring their relationships, aspirations, and the interplay between individual destinies and the collective family fate. These stories traverse through generations, portraying pivotal moments that shape the family's identity, wealth, beliefs, and values. Often, they incorporate themes of love, betrayal, ambition, sacrifice, resilience, and the impact of societal changes on familial structures.
Character development is central to the genre, showcasing the growth, struggles, and complexities of each family member across different eras. The narrative might encompass historical events or cultural shifts, providing a backdrop against which the family's experiences are set. It offers a panoramic view of how external forces intertwine with personal choices, shaping the family's fortunes and influencing its heritage.
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1. I Know This Much Is True (2020)
TV-MA | 63 min | Drama
Following the parallel lives of identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in a story of betrayal, sacrifice, and forgiveness.
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, John Procaccino, Rob Huebel, Gabe Fazio
Votes: 23,483
2. Taken (2002)
TV-PG | 68 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Three families experience alien abductions over a period of five decades.
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Matt Frewer, Emily Bergl, Heather Donahue
Votes: 21,014
3. Roots (1977)
TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 18,888
4. Roots (2016)
TV-MA | 388 min | Drama, War
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots." Chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America.
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 8,476
5. The Forsyte Saga (2002–2003)
TV-PG | 276 min | Drama, History, Romance
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
Stars: Damian Lewis, Rupert Graves, Gina McKee, Amanda Root
Votes: 6,550
6. Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Tales of love across two films highlighting the very different challenges that face the couples, With Michael and Thomas just after WWII, and Adam and Steve in the present day.
Stars: Julian Morris, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charlie Wernham
Votes: 4,603
7. Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.
Stars: Debbi Morgan, Dorian Harewood, Paul Koslo, Stan Shaw
Votes: 2,786
8. Vientos de agua (2006)
Drama
A drama series that traces a Spanish man's immigration to Argentina in the 1930s, and, years later, his son's return to modern-day Spain.
Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Eduardo Blanco, Héctor Alterio, Darío Valenzuela
Votes: 1,173
9. Halvbroren (2013)
362 min | Drama, Mystery
The life of a family spanning five generations in 20th-century Europe, split in half by WWII, centering around half-brothers Barnum and Fred growing up together in Oslo; Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his.
Stars: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Frank Kjosås, Mariann Hole, Marianne Nielsen
Votes: 841
10. Master of the Game (1984)
413 min | Drama
Elderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his fortune in diamonds. The family history is ... See full summary »
Stars: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young
Votes: 532
11. The Romanovs (2013)
60 min | History
This history of the Romanov dynasty, the family that ruled Russia from 1613 until the October Revolution of 1917.
Star: Ilya Sherbinin
Votes: 429
12. The Emperor of Taste (2008–2009)
490 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Helena De Keyser, a descendant from a family of gin distillers who lost her lover during the Second World War, anno 2008 asks her granddaughter Alessandra to investigate exactly what happened back then.
Stars: Katelijne Damen, Laura Verlinden, Marijke Pinoy, Matthias Schoenaerts
Votes: 326
13. Vechnyy zov (1973–1983)
65 min | Drama
Soviet epic television series based on the novel by Anatoly Ivanov, who starred on "Mosfilm" from 1973 to 1983. On materials of events half a century (from 1906 to 1960) traced the history ... See full summary »
Stars: I. Godlevskiy, Viktor Mikhailov, Pyotr Velyaminov, Ivan Lapikov
Votes: 295
14. The Adams Chronicles (1976)
50 min | Drama, History
This ambitious multi-part PBS production brings to life five generations of one of America's leading political and historical families, tracing their lives from John Adams' years as a ... See full summary »
Stars: Pamela Payton-Wright, George Hearn, Michael Tolan, William Daniels
Votes: 213
15. Wonderful Times (2009–2013)
52 min | Comedy, Drama
A retro-series about recent Czech and Slovak history told via the microcosm of a single Czech family. A mosaic of three generations blending nostalgia with the bitter reality of the socialist regime.
Stars: Svatopluk Skopal, Veronika Freimanová, Andrea Ruzicková, Roman Vojtek
Votes: 208
16. Time and the Wind (1985)
45 min | Drama
The story of the foundations of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, through the Cambará family and Bibiana's memories of her grandmother, Ana Terra, and her husband, Captain Rodrigo.
Stars: Glória Pires, José de Abreu, Tarcísio Meira, Carla Camurati
Votes: 160
17. Buddenbrooks (1979– )
614 min | Drama
Family saga set in 19th century Germany, chronicling the lives of three generations of the Buddenbrook family, the owners of a family business in the northern town of Luebeck. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
Stars: Ursula Dirichs, Reinhild Solf, Volkert Kraeft, Gerd Böckmann
Votes: 142
18. Les Alsaciens: ou les deux Mathilde (1996)
90 min | Drama, History
The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their ... See full summary »
Stars: Caroline Tresca, Catherine Aymerie, Hélène Schwaller, Aurore Clément
Votes: 84
19. The Key (2003– )
60 min | Drama
The Key is a very human story. It's about three generations of a family struggling to make the best of their lives in very difficult circumstances. The drama recounts the story of the last ... See full summary »
Stars: June Watson, Ronni Ancona, Annie Louise Ross, Dawn Steele
Votes: 47
20. God's Wonderful Railway (1980)
30 min | Drama, Family, History
Three generations of the Grant family live and work on the Severn Valley branch of the Great Western Railway, from the Victorian era to the Second World War.
Stars: June Brown, Richard Pearson, Annette Ekblom, Bill Dean
Votes: 17
21. Les chevaux du soleil (1980)
52 min | Drama, War, History
Over several generations, the history of French Algeria, from 1830 to 1962, is told through the saga of two families of settlers living in the region of Algiers.
Stars: Rabah Loucif, Jacques Frantz, Catherine Rouvel, Gilles Ségal
Votes: 13
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