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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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Lies I Told My Little Sister (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid recriminations, revelations, a very weird shopkeeper and an old romance, they square off against the patterns of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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My Daddy is in Heaven (2017)
Plot Summary:
Becca, Adam and their 5-year-old daughter Acie are a perfect family until a tragic accident during a 4th of July celebration kills their father. Struggling with grief, Becky decides she needs to leave the family farm and all its memories. She leaves Acie with her grandfather Ben and visits with her friend from school, June. With all the best intent, June offers Becky plenty of distraction from her family life. Fueled by her anger at G*d and loss of faith, Becky starts drinking and making other self-destructive choices. Then, after Becky is arrested, Ben threatens to keep Acie until Becky is back on track. A chance encounter in a bus station with a traveler gives Becky what she needs to restore her faith and reunite with her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, christian film
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Dad's Lunch Box (2017)
Plot Summary:
This film was inspired by a real-life story of a Japanese father who for the three years his daughter spent at high school prepared daily bento lunch boxes for her leading to delicious, interesting or offbeat creations. In all cases, he put an effort into equipping his daughter with sustenance for school.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, 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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The Days I Lost (2021)
Plot Summary:
It's about a man that gets tired of his meaningless life and finds a way to escape from it pretending to be dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Lovely by Surprise (2007)
Plot Summary:
Lovely by Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the age-old problem of writer’s block, Marian seeks advice from a mentor and ex-lover. His seemingly innocent advice to kill the book’s protagonist unleashes chaos in her life as a willful protagonist escapes from her novel and appears in the unresolved corners of her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, 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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Penny Pincher! (2016)
Plot Summary:
François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive….
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sincere, sweet, humorous
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy
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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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Life Must Go On (2015)
Plot Summary:
When cancer-stricken alcoholic actor discovers he's only got 3 months to live, he decides to change his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
Plot Summary:
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, disturbing, feel good, emotional, mumblecore, anthology
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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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My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)
Plot Summary:
He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend she lives with it and does not need a cranky father.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, captivating
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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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See You in Valhalla (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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The Quitter (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Mother Ghost (2002)
Plot Summary:
Keith Bennets mother passed away a year ago, and he feels like he has moved on with his life, until one morning his mothers jewelry shows up on Keiths bathroom sink. The same jewelry she was buried in. Keith tells his wife Karen, about the jewelry and that is the last straw. She claims he is distant and has shut her out. Now he thinks he is seeing things that aren't there and if things don't improve, she will take their only son and leave. Forced with the ultimatum, Keith launches himself on a day of reclamation. Keith winds up on the phone with a popular radio Psychiatrist who guides Keith through what he cannot see on his own. Keith discovers a new man and a new attitude. Several people are listening to Keith's plight on the radio and are making changes of their own. Is this dead visitor all in Keith's head or is she truly a Mother Ghost?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, sincere, realistic, independent film, crying
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Fathers & Sons (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance to his father - a gay, Bollywood choreographer. A recently bankrupted Wall-Street broker has come home to borrow money from his music teacher father, and four brothers gather at the paternal home to pay their last respects and to collect their inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining
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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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Wish I Was Here (2014)
Plot Summary:
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, inspirational, touching, sentimental, light, sweet, emotional, melancholic, sincere, realistic
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My Father's Bike (2012)
Plot Summary:
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, road movie, captivating, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious
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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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Dad for Rent (2014)
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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Helicopter Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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A Mother's Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina down to earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, christian film, independent film
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Thunder Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Officer Arnaud raises his daughter as a love letter to his late Mom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, sincere, captivating, funny, emotional, dark, social, mumblecore
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My Father Is a Cleaning Lady (2011)
Plot Summary:
Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, psychological, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious
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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