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Plot Summary:
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Smothered by Mothers (2019)
Plot Summary:
A football star loses all of his and his relatives money in a Ponzi scheme and becomes a father with three different women, all at the same time. The Ponzi scheme forces them to all live under one roof, and he has to pull off an elaborate caper in order to get his money back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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3 Days with Dad (2019)
Plot Summary:
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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We Accept Miracles (2015)
Plot Summary:
Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Daddy is My Classmate (2020)
Plot Summary:
Author Tarō Obika is an obsessed single father who loves his daughter so much, he decides to go to the same college. Nicknamed Gatarō, he was widowed when his wife died of an illness and has raised his only child Sakura all on his own. Things are about to change drastically as Sakura prepares to enter a coeducational university after going to an all-girls school all her life. Worried sick, Gataro enrolls not only in the same school, but also in the same department, and the madness begins! Unable to control his anxiety, he sticks his nose in her every business, from classes to extracurricular activities, parties, dating events, cultural festivals, part-time jobs, and everything else college kids do. But as the 40-year-old middle-aged dad gets involved in the youthful pursuits of Sakura and her colleagues, he finds himself enjoying life even more than them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter (2007)
Plot Summary:
This home comedy tells the story of Kyoichiro and his teenage daughter Koume. One day, the two ride a train together after visiting Kyoichiro's mother-in-law. He sees it as a chance to get to know his daughter better, but he ends up getting more than that - by some mysterious force, both Kyoichiro and Koume end up with their mind in the other's body! Unfortunately, they have no choice but to swap lives, pretending to be each other at school and work.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, dorama
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A Boy Named Flora A (2017)
Plot Summary:
A 28-year-old layabout begins to re-examine his life when his dysfunctional family assembles to pay respects to a dying grandmother who won’t pass on.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Recipe for Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
Przepis na życie is a Polish Comedy drama television series produced by Akson Studio for the TVN network. The series was created and written by Polish actress Agnieszka Pilaszewska. The main character is a middle-aged woman whose life changes when her husband leaves her and she loses her job. The only activity that can make her feel better is cooking. This is her passion. The storyline follows her fate, as well as her daughter's and ex-husband's who is now with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Lasciami per sempre (2017)
Plot Summary:
Celebration of an extended family.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: satirical, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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A Servant of Two Masters (2014)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged single father Yang is conservative, lives with and raises his daughter alone. He works as driver of aloof hostess Tang and meets young Miss Gu who looks like his ex-wife. Both two women fall in love with Yang.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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My Father's Stories (2020)
Plot Summary:
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly follows his father in missions of utmost danger: tailing, spying, delivering top-secret letters. Emile carries out his orders in all seriousness. He even recruits Luca, a new classmate, into his secret combat. But what if the father’s exploits were all phony, and far too dangerous for children?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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To The Heritage With Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dispute for the inheritance of the father of this family is the motor for this comedy, where siblings Andrea and Hector start a discussion with their aunt, who turns out to be the universal heiress of their father's because they don't comply with the rules established by their father.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Disconnected (2018)
Plot Summary:
Well-known writer Ettore takes his family on a mountain chalet getaway for his birthday, in an effort to create a bond between his two sons, Claudio and Giulio, and his second wife, Margherita. The group is also joined by Margherita's brother, Claudio's girlfriend, a Ukraininan cook and her daughter. When an internet outage strikes, a series of exciting adventures ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sunkist Family (2019)
Plot Summary:
Joon-Ho (Park Hee-Soon) and Yoo-Mi (Jin Kyung) have been married for 20 years and they are still madly love in with each other. The couple have three children: first son Chul-Won (Jang Sung-Bum), first daughter Kyung-Joo (Yoon Bo-Ra) and youngest daughter Jin-Hae (Lee Go-Eun). The parents have difficulty having sex at night, because their youngest daughter Jin-Hae keeps going into their bedroom. One day, Joon-Ho’s female friend Mi-Hee (Hwang Woo Seul Hye) moves in next door to them. Mi-Hee is a beautiful woman and Yoo-Mi misunderstands the relationship between her husband and Mi-Hee.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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My Out-Laws (2019)
Plot Summary:
When their daughter decides to get a divorce, Coline and Andre can’t come to terms with it as they are very fond of their son-in-law. The only way to keep seeing him is in secret. But for how long can they lead a double life?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Mom or Dad? (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, serious, realistic, light, captivating
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The Family House (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! (2021)
Plot Summary:
A single dad and cosmetics brand owner figures out fatherhood on the fly when his strong-minded teen daughter moves in with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom
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Kids Are Back (2020)
Plot Summary:
Catherine and Yann, happily married for many years, should have spent the year travelling abroad. But since he sold his business, Yann has been too busy with his bonsai trees and keeps postponing the big trip. Things go from bad to worse when their 27-year-old broke daughter and her boyfriend lose their apartment and come knocking on the door to stay. With Yann’s mid-life crisis spinning out of control, their couch surfing daughter and partner getting increasingly invasive and their stay becoming indefinite, Catherine will try everything to kick them out of the parental home and get her life back on track!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Training Dad (2015)
Plot Summary:
Widowed and in a professional decline, the legendary soccer player "Spider Salazar" lives lost in his own depression. His only inspiration is his daughter Tania, who can not stand to see her father in this state. With a lot of ingenuity and perseverance, Tania will help his father return to the field in order to restore his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Chief Daddy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Chief Daddy tells the story of billionaire industrialist Chief Beecroft, a flamboyant benefactor to a large extended family of relatives, household staff and assorted mistresses. Chief lives large, like there’s no tomorrow, until the day he dies suddenly and the ‘bullion van’ stops. What’s in his will and who gets all that money? What happens next will surprise you, as Chief Daddy has the last laugh from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids (2020)
Plot Summary:
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Rob Schneider returns to the stage and shares his take on life, love and dinosaur dreams in this stand-up special. Ending with a surprise duet performance with his daughter, singer-songwriter Elle King, Rob talks about potty training his young daughters and his own pig potential.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating
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Teenosaurus Rex (2017)
Plot Summary:
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in her life and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, boys and other temptations. This is easier said than done, however, and when his wife Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves himself entirely inept at raising a teenager. Whether it’s Carla’s birthday party, her mobile phone contract or her first time, Hannes makes one awkward blunder after another. The fact that other teens have embarrassing fathers provides only faint consolation; Hannes’ best friend is a war reporter named Holger who prefers to be shot at in war zones rather than stay at home and be driven crazy by his own teenage nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Like Father (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a workaholic young executive, is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers, but over the course of a few hilarious adventures, a couple of umbrella-clad cocktails and a whole lot of soul-searching, they return with a renewed appreciation for family and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, sweet, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychological, funny, happy
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The Relatives (2021)
Plot Summary:
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip across all of Russia. Along the way, they will have adventures, various tests and a test of their relationships for strength. But the most important thing they will understand only at the end of this extraordinary trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Dad in Training (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the breakdown of his marriage, a self-involved man begins to embrace fatherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Jenny, Juno (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, Juno centers on the title characters of Jenny and Juno, two fifteen year old middle school students whose one night of romance has dramatic consequences for both their lives. After careful deliberation, the two expectant parents decide to keep the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Miami Beach (2016)
Plot Summary:
Miami is one of the most sought by young Italians. It is there, in fact, is going to study at university Luca, a Roman, the son of John and Valentina, Milan, daughter Olivia. During the plane trip from Rome to Miami, Olivia and John argue furiously.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Civil Marriage (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a couple who is too late to date, but too early to marry. Tyoma and Nika together for more than a year and they have good time together. But they are frivolous and not too serious about everything. They do not want to repeat the life of their parents: first job at 18, wedding at 20 and family and three children at 25. But to prove to the parents and themselves that they are ready for independent living, Tyoma and Nika decide to move together - they have Nika's grandmother's apartment. Nika's father can not tolerate Tyoma, but allows them to live in this apartment. Everything would be fine if this apartment were not located just a few floors below the apartment of Nika’s parents. Now they are waiting for all the delights of adult life: the search for work and food, quarrels about stupid things, annoying rich neighbors, and so on. Will a civil marriage break infantile and merry for Tyoma and Nika? Or will they learn an independent life and their love will only get stronger?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Father of Invention (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nearly a decade after a faulty product landed him in prison, an arrogant inventor is determined to restore his reputation and rebuild his fortune. But first, he has to convince his estranged daughter that he's worthy of a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sentimental, realistic, witty, semi serious