Our guide to film series and special screenings happening this weekend and in the week ahead. All our movie reviews are at nytimes.com/reviews/movies.

FAMILY F(R)ICTIONS: DYSFUNCTION FOR THE HOLIDAYS at the Quad Cinema (through Dec. 1). Breaking with the notion that holidays are a time for joy and cheer, the Quad has put together a lineup in which get-togethers take place on a precipice of unease. Whatever happened at your Thanksgiving, it was probably less angsty than the reunion in Ingmar Bergman’s “Autumn Sonata” (showing on Thursday and Saturday), a drama that casts the other Bergman — Ingrid — as a pianist whose distant daughter (Liv Ullmann) invites her for what promises to be a recrimination-filled visit. Vincent Gallo plays an ex-con who kidnaps a young woman (Christina Ricci) to play his wife in “Buffalo ’66” (on Saturday). In “The Birdcage” (on Friday and Sunday), Mike Nichols’s remake of “La Cage Aux Folles,” Robin Williams and Nathan Lane attempt a different kind of ruse as a flamboyant gay couple trying to hide their lifestyle from their son’s prospective father-in-law, a Republican senator (Gene Hackman).

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