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Plot Summary:
Linda and George live in a small town. He is the school principal. They are about to celebrate their 16th anniversary. She catches him with her daughter's young teacher, and has to deal with the kids, the town and her love to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Great Impostor (1960)
Plot Summary:
Fitionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: cult film
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O'Hara's Wife (1982)
Plot Summary:
Workaholic attorney Bob O'Hara (Asner) is devastated when his wife (Hartley) dies suddenly. She returns to "haunt" him, however, (a la "Topper") and her mission is to persuade him to slow down, watch his own health, and renew relationships with his two grown children (Foster and Lang.).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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More Than Family (2020)
Plot Summary:
To-il tutors high school student Ho-hoon, but she soon falls in love with him and gets pregnant. The film unfolds a series of playful happenings when To-il embarks on a journey to find her birth father for the wedding, though she is living with her step-father.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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My Family Treasure (1993)
Plot Summary:
A US mother goes to the USSR, just before its dissolution, to find the priceless Fabergé egg that the Russian Tsar left to her peasant father 70 years ago when the Russian Revolution hit, but the egg got lost in the commotion.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Different Eye (2017)
Plot Summary:
Julia and her fiancé Mark's world is shattered when they find themselves with conservator-ship of Maria, a young woman with Downs Syndrome. Can Maria teach Julia to find the beauty in life's ups and downs, or will Julia and Mark's crumbling relationship cause them to send Maria away for good?.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Baby Comes Home (1980)
Plot Summary:
A family drama directed by Waris Hussein.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Tango of Our Childhood (1985)
Plot Summary:
The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Time of Indifference (1964)
Plot Summary:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dread
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According to her (2016)
Plot Summary:
Love, motherhood and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Russian woman who tries to keep her balance among wealthy French expats in New York.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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A Place To Be Loved (1993)
Plot Summary:
Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natural father, finds the foster family he is put into to be the type of family he needs and takes his natural mother to court to have her parental rights revoked so that he can be adopted by the Russes. The story is based on the real case of the boy who really did have to take this action to avoid being sent back into an unacceptable situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: depressing
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Bro Daddy (2022)
Plot Summary:
John Kattady and his wife Annamma think about marrying off their son Eesho to Anna, who is the daughter of their long-time family friend Kurien. Eesho and Anna don’t act too impressed with each other, despite their parents’ interest in the alliance. Little do the families know what is going on behind the curtains in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: feel good
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Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989)
Plot Summary:
Inheriting a family resort in Hawaii, the Wyatts find it in such a run-down condition that they decide to sell it after trying to fix it up. Amidst confusing goings-on among the triplet teenage girls and the boys they meet, Jeffrey meets an old high school rival who promises to keep the resort as-is if Jeffrey will sell it to him. He has other plans in mind, however, and they are not limited merely to Jeffrey's resort.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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A Flat for Three (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three divorced fathers are forced to live together.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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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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Sunny Side (2017)
Plot Summary:
In this movie adaptation of the TV-Show by the same name, we join the three couples in a comedy about divorces, love, child longing, weird parents and unwritten bathing rules in Torekov.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Have You Seen My Son (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Breeders (2020)
Plot Summary:
Breeders exposes the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, sweet, ironic, dark comedy
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Straight A's (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, funny, independent film, vintage
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The Guide to the Perfect Family (2021)
Plot Summary:
A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, feel good
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Fatherhood (2021)
Plot Summary:
A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, inspirational, depressing, anamorphic, entertaining, fun
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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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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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Mothers of the Bride (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jenna is getting married, her mother is delighted until Jenna announces she wants to find her birth mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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A Happy Event (2011)
Plot Summary:
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy, crying
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Cocked (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Paxsons are a broken family working together - and against each other - in the most quintessentially American business, the business of guns.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Roommates (1995)
Plot Summary:
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, inspirational, romantic, sexy, clever
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Duane Hopwood (2005)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: emotional, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, clever, touching, gloomy, semi serious, independent film
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Tumbleweeds (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her weirdo boss. Meanwhile, the daughter, used to making the constant shifts, finds a fit at school including getting chosen for a play lead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, feel good, realistic, sentimental, talky, entertaining, sincere, humorous, semi serious
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Badhaai Ho (2018)
Plot Summary:
A 25-year-old man tries to suppress his embarrassment when his mother announces that she is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, fast
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Plot Summary:
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, funny, hilarious, light, sentimental, romantic, sweet, romantic comedy, clever