| Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | 7.8 | |
| The Road (2009) | 7.2 | |
| Big Fish (2003) | 7.9 | |
| The Lion King (1994) | 8.5 | |
| Starred Up (2013) | 7.3 |
Father son relationship movies and TV shows – page 2
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526K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine ...
Style:
emotional, tense, inspirational, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
martial arts, courage, mixed martial arts, fight scenes, boxing, fistfight, estrangement, muscleman, happy ending, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, fight ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, iraq, atlantic city new jersey, el paso texas ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenage boy begins to suspect that his wholesome, all-American dad is actually the serial killer terrorizing their small town.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, father son relationship, dark past, church, serial murder, small town, teenager, murder, double life, fear, mysterious villain, investigation ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
kentucky, midwest
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, stylized, atmospheric, depressing ...
Plot:
father son relationship, youth, hopes, music, coming of age, prodigy, rise to the top, musician's life, teenage life, teachers and students, humanity, family relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 19th century
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, tokyo, california
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Norway
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy ...
Style:
sincere, scenic, touching, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
animal rescue, goose, wildlife, obsessive quest, ex husband ex wife relationship, father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, bird, endangered species, migration, swamp ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, melancholic, sentimental, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
single parent, single father, father son relationship, family drama, cancer, widower, brothers, life philosophy, depression, overcoming, writers, step siblings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, australia, south australia, europe, california ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
teenager, father son relationship, memory, death, coming of age, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, writers ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962 ...
Place:
brighton, london, england
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199K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, romantic, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
coming of age, dating, bullying, christmas, childhood, dysfunctional family, friendship, mentor, loneliness, father son relationship, couples, single parent ...
Time:
year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, philosophical, homoerotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, obsession, dysfunctional family, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, recovering alcoholic, surgeon, psychopath, blackmail, desperation, dead father, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ancient greece, ireland, columbus ohio
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dying, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, dysfunctional family, reconciliation, illness, divorce, hopes, fighting illness, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a drama based on a true story. Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police ...
Style:
detective, suspense, talky, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
father son relationship, redemption, murder, police, guilt, drug dealer, drug addict, grandfather grandson relationship, homicide detective, regret, dark past, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Style:
romantic, sexy, funny, inspirational, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, relationships, parents, temptation, eligible bachelor, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorced parents, football team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, virginia
Is relevant?
123K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, clever, feel good, serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, radio, father son relationship, investigation, police detective, parallel universe, altering history, murder mystery, changing the past or future, murder, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1999, year 1969, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to ...
Style:
sexy, depressing, realistic, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, sex scene, interracial romance, electric chair, death penalty, prison, interracial sex, prison guard, dysfunctional family, death row, sex, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana, southern usa, georgia
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133K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.
Style:
semi autobiographical, dramatic, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, teenage boy, bullying, childhood, relationships, filmmaker, autobiography, boy, anti semitism, filmmaking, life ...
Time:
2020s, year 1957, 20th century, year 1965, year 1963 ...
Place:
arizona, northern california, new jersey, california, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret when Carlton’s mother becomes sick. Once reunited, Carlton struggles to deal with the series of misadventures ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
father son relationship, baseball, road trip, fiancee, father son reunion, family relations, parents and children, on the road, estranged son, dysfunctional family, nothing goes right, family problems ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
columbus ohio, houston texas, usa, ohio, memphis
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465K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
plot twist, superhero, father son relationship, invulnerability, security guard, swimming pool, self discovery, twists and turns, train crash, good versus evil, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future, 20th century ...
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Fashionable uptown Moscow: psychologist Artem practices "provocative therapy", convinced that the fastest and most effective cure is to brutally confront his patients with their fears. Yet his own life is in chaos after he was sentenced to ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
psychological manipulation, psychotherapy, entrapment, shock treatment, psychotherapist, psychologist, investigation, self discovery, father son relationship, uncover truth, false accusation, life turned upside down ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
moscow russia
Is relevant?
151K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, audition, gay, childhood, friendship, follow your dream, lgbtq, poverty ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, year 1985 ...
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good. Along with Ben's nurse ...
Style:
road movie, sincere, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, photograph, brother brother relationship, art, parents and children, society, destiny, rivalry, friends, hopes, obsession ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A small family "a father and a son" lives on the top floor of an old house. The father retired from the military, when he was a student in flight school, he experienced the first and the only love of his life. This girl became his wife and ...
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, touching, sensual ...
Plot:
gay subtext, father son relationship, homosexual subtext, gay, soldier, youth, bare chested male, dream, teenage boy, family relations, single parent, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sylvester Stallone stars as hard-luck big-rig trucker Lincoln Hawk and takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life ...
Style:
inspirational, intense, serious, action packed, weeping ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens, girls' night
Plot:
father son relationship, arm wrestling, underdog, truck driver, redemption, truck, athlete's life, road trip, on the road, death of mother, father in law son in law relationship, class differences ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Cuba
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jesús, a young hairdresser, works at a Havana nightclub for drag performers, and dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesús finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when Angel, his estranged father, abruptly ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, sincere, disturbing, serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay interest, female impersonator, lgbtq, gay, transgender woman, lgbt, father son relationship, gay son, gay slur, crossdresser, dysfunctional family, drag queen ...
Place:
cuba, havana cuba
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen ...
Style:
anime, mecha, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
loneliness, existentialism, self doubt, father son relationship, psychological trauma, loss, depression, giant robot, young heroes, post apocalypse, suffering, piloted giant robot ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
japan
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99K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder, insanity, plot twist, religious fanatic, psychopath, childhood, parents and children, punishment, father son relationship, child abuse ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, year 1979, year 2000, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a place to call home.
Style:
road movie, sad, exciting, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, horse, racehorse, father son relationship, single father, running, teenage boy, runaway, orphan, food, doctor, on the road ...
Time:
year 2017, 90s
Place:
portland oregon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
human animal relationship, father son relationship, love and romance, island, teenage life, parents and children, human spirit, hopes, social relations, greek island, pelican, sea ...
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, inspirational, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
american football, high school, football, college, cheerleader, small town, coming of age, high school football, student athlete, friendship, coach, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, north america, new jersey ...
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360K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, laugh out loud, slapstick ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
lawyer, liar, father son relationship, lie, court, courtroom, dishonesty, change of heart, truth, ex husband ex wife relationship, trial, divorce ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, boston
Is relevant?
272K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Style:
black comedy, frightening, funny, horror comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, monster, small town, supernatural, transformation, creature, holiday, gremlin, father son relationship, winter, swimming pool, bank ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s, future
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
winter, child in peril, mentally unstable, cold weather, wilderness, parent child relationship, brother brother relationship, snowstorm, divorced parents, snow, father son relationship, weekend ...
Place:
ontario canada, canada
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