Grandfather movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant grandfather movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, humorous, realistic, feel good, serious and light films and TV shows about / with grandfather, family relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, grandfather grandson relationship, father son relationship, girl, teenager and society plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as grandfather: Grandfathered (2015), The War with Grandpa (2020), Only Fools and Horses (1981), Dirty Grandpa (2016), Greedy (1994), Interstellar (2014), In the Game (2018), The Parent Trap (1961), Love Like Poison (2010), Granddad (2020).

List of grandfather movies

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Grandfathered (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Successful restaurateur and man-about-town Jimmy Martino is used to being the most suave, most handsome and most single person in the room. All that changes with the surprise appearance of Jimmy’s adult son, Gerald, and his baby daughter, Edie. ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot: parent child relationship, grandfather, coming of age, children, father son relationship, male protagonist, father, parents and children, family relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, kids and family, humour ...
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The War with Grandpa (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sixth-grader Peter is pretty much your average kid—he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed moves in with Peter’s family, the boy is forced to give up his most ...
Style: light, entertaining, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, boy, elderly, family conflict, grandfather grandson relationship, friendship, resentment, bullying, grandfather, love, family feud, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2020s
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Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Hungary, France, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two ...
Style: serious, touching, atmospheric, road movie, sentimental ...
Plot: spirituality, human spirit, desert, religions or cults, self discovery, mysterious place, on the road, storytelling, grandfather, granddaughter, poetry, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, tunisia
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Only Fools and Horses (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story: The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of “Trotters Independent Traders PLC” who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: working class, cockney, grandfather, world war two veteran, black market, disorder, eccentric family, brother brother relationship, pub, short man, veteran, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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 5.9
 132K
Dirty Grandpa (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jason Kelly is one week away from marrying his boss's uber-controlling daughter, putting him on the fast track for a partnership at the law firm. However, when the straight-laced Jason is tricked into driving his foul-mouthed grandfather, Dick, ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, road movie, sexy, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, sex, mentor, college, foul language, on the road, grandfather grandson relationship, sexual humor, stereotypes, stupidity, grandparent grandchild relationship, disorder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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 6.3
 16K
Greedy (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, surprise ending, feel good ...
Plot: wealth, greed, millionaire, uncle nephew relationship, bowling, eccentric family, family relations, last will and testament, family gatherings, vandalism, grandfather, parents and children ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: washington d.c.
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 8.7
 2.1M
Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, space, survival, end of the world, distopia, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
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 5.8
 542
In the Game (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Roland is reached by the illness of'Alzheimer's and his family is the small-care with him, except his grandson JB which n'has that'a single goal to play the final of basketball in Paris. But the parents of JB blocked this ...
Style: road movie, humorous, entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: grandfather grandson relationship, alzheimer's disease, grandfather, basketball, memory loss, restaurant, doctor, on the road, family relations, restaurant owner, teenager, telephone call ...
Time: 21st century
Place: marseille, paris france
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The Parent Trap (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: twins, divorce, summer, summer camp, family life, sisters, women, teenage girl, childhood, mischievous children, parents and children, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: california, massachusetts, boston, monterey california
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Love Like Poison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, religion, belief in god, crisis of faith, self discovery, teenage love, moral dilemma, clergy, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brittany, europe
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 5.3
 108
Granddad (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
TV show
Story: When Johnny Håland is kicked out on the street, the colourful but broke 60-something ladies man turns to his son for a place to live. Granddad is a comedy about modern family life when three generations are forced to live under the same roof.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Plot: grandfather, father son reunion, family relations, father son relationship, family reunited, kids and family, grandfather grandson relationship, family life, parents and children, grandfather granddaughter relationship, husband wife relationship, homecoming ...
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Samba in Mettmann (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store, while his dad is away on a fair. In the evening he runs into three Brazilian ladies thrown out of a limousine not knowing where to go. Olaf invites them to stay with him and his deaf ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light
Plot: transsexuality, wedding, grandfather, small town, fiancee, family relations, deaf, trio, laundry, living room
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Love Finds You in Valentine (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, realistic
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rancher, horse, family history, ranch, small town, love and romance, romanticism, relationships, suburban life, small town life, love affair, grandfather ...
Place: usa, nebraska
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 6.0
 530
Grandfathers (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a globalized world where youth and technology reign supreme, three aged friends refuse to give up and dare to launch a business from scratch: a daycare center. But is modern society ready enough to embrace their venture?
Style: humorous, touching, sincere, captivating, funny ...
Plot: kindergarten, second chance, grandfather, job interview, secret, marriage, baby, grandson, business, debt, self discovery, starting over ...
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Give Me Liberty (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
Style: sincere, captivating, humorous, light, psychological ...
Plot: grandfather, storytelling, funeral, medicine, friendship, friends, friend, disabled person, nightclub, emigrant, bare chested male, horniness ...
Time: year 2003
Place: milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
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 6.6
 358
Finn (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, twisted
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, father figure, follow your dream, family relations, teachers and students, musician's life, hopes, elderly, parents and children, grandfather, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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 6.6
 14K
Black or White (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Style: touching, compassionate, sincere, colorful, happy ...
Plot: interracial relations, custody, family drama, custody battle, courtroom, adoption, lawyer, culture clash, family problems, father daughter relationship, widower, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 6.6
 7K
Hibernatus (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, ironic, light ...
Plot: time travel, hibernation, fish out of water, family life, disorder, misfit, culture clash, society, pretense, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather, abbey ...
Time: 60s, 1900s, 70s
Place: france, greenland
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 4.6
 1K
Asmodexia (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Eloy de Palma is an exorcist pastor roaming the darkest corners of the country with his granddaughter Alba. Their mission is to help those possessed by The Evil One, an infection of the soul that is spreading fast. Each exorcism is tougher than the ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, rescue, exorcist, danger, rivalry, mental illness, curses spells and rituals, demon, grandfather, granddaughter, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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My 90 Year Old Roommate (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Ethan, a 31-year-old single man, moves in with his 90-year-old grandfather and the pair quickly realize that they have a lot to learn from each other.
Style: captivating, entertaining, satirical, feel good, semi serious
Plot: grandfather, satire, grandfather grandson relationship, living together, family relations, social satire, generation, relationships
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The Eternal Zero (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 361 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Saeki Kentaro, who continues to fail the National Bar Examinations and lose sight of the goal of his life, and his old sister Keiko, who is a freelance writer looking up their grandfather Miyabe who died in the Pacific War as a Kamikaze ...
Style: suspense, touching, thought provoking, psychological
Plot: soldier, world war two, kamikaze, world war two veteran, grandfather, pilot, killed in action, death of grandfather, wrestler, suicide, coward, pacific war ...
Time: post world war two
Place: japan
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The Claus Family (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When his grandfather suddenly falls ill, holiday-hating Jules learns of his family's magical legacy and realizes he's the only hope to save Christmas.
Style: feel good, entertaining, sincere, captivating, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, toys, grandfather, kindness, magic, christmas season, new job, xmas, family relations, exploration ...
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 6.6
 8K
La Llorona (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Guatemala, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A tale of horror and fantasy, ripe with suspense, and an urgent metaphor of Guatemalan recent history and its unhealed political wounds.
Style: suspense, bleak, psychotronic, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: protest, trial, indigenous people, war crime, folk horror, servant, alzheimer's disease, grandfather, guilty verdict, death, ghost, teenager ...
Place: guatemala
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Dig Two Graves (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with a deadly proposition. How far will she go to save the people she loves?
Style: scary, enigmatic, sexy, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: sheriff, death of brother, brother sister relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, disposing of a dead body, grandfather, funeral, teenage girl, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, murder, revenge ...
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Larger Than Life (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter—who are both victims of incest-rape perpetrated by the same man now languishing in jail—are approached by a couple of filmmakers with an offer to produce a movie based on the two women’s true story. They hesitate on ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: sexualized violence, filmmaking, exploitation, teenager, mother daughter relationship, cinema, producer, seduction, grandfather, interview, sex, police ...
Time: 2000s
Place: the philippines
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Shadow of a Hero (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A grandchild sets out to discover how the death of his grandfather in the Spanish Civil War could split up the entire family for three generations.
Style: captivating
Plot: grandfather, uncover truth, life, wartime life, generation, military life, breaking the fourth wall, wartime, lifestyle, heroes, social issues, three generations ...
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The Old Curiosity Shop (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, psychological, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: on the run, frame up, gambling, orphan, countryside, survival, downfall, addiction, life is a bitch, society, mysterious character, self discovery ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: europe, england, london
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Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.
Style: rough, emotional, depressing, heartbreaking, serious ...
Plot: child abuse, parent child relationship, power relations, domineering mother, funeral, dysfunctional relationship, poverty, grandmother, doctor, money, sick, birthday ...
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Father’s Chair (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, couples, family problems, life turned upside down, disorder, crumbling marriage, self discovery, parents and children, relationship vs career, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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 8.4
 2K
The Promise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 356 min.
TV show
Story: A young British girl travels to Israel/Palestine, retracing the steps of her grandfather - a British soldier stationed there in the 1940s.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: israeli palestinian conflict, soldier, diary, military, wartime life, military life, youth, society, life is a bitch, occupation, political unrest, loss of family member ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, palestinian authority, middle east
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