Fatherhood movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant fatherhood movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good, touching, captivating and semi serious films and TV shows about / with fatherhood, family relations, friends, love, parents and children, friendship, husband wife relationship, couples, father daughter relationship and father son relationship plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as fatherhood: Courageous (2011), Having You (2013), Chaos Theory (2007), About a Boy (2002), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Man with a Plan (2016), Guys with Kids (2012), Casper (1995), Love and the City 2 (2010).

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 6.9
 22K
Courageous (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners are confident and focused. They willingly stand up to the worst the streets have to offer. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly ...
Style: christian film, uplifting, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christian, faith, christianity, fatherhood, religion, family relations, god, religious, father son relationship, church, idealism, courage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.4
 918
Having You (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Style: light, suspenseful, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot: fatherhood, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, estranged couple, father son relationship, death of mother, accident, alcoholic, terminal illness, best friend, mother son relationship ...
Place: england
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 6.6
 33K
Chaos Theory (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, touching, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, betrayal by friend, adultery, father daughter relationship, infidelity, nothing goes right, breaking point, chaos, disorder, human nature, love triangle, fatherhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 21st century
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 7.1
 191K
About a Boy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
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, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, childhood, dating, bullying, friendship, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, christmas, boy, mentor, motherhood, couples ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe
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Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, China, UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a ...
Style: romantic, light, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, love triangle, motherhood, female protagonist, british, fatherhood, pregnant woman, parenthood, diary, mother daughter relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love story ...
Place: london
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style: touching, black and white, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, racism, small town, trial, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, prejudice ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place: alabama, usa, america, africa
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Man with a Plan (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A dad finds out that parenting is harder than he thought after his wife goes back to work and he's left at home to take care of the kids.
Style: sitcom, funny, humorous, not serious, feel good ...
Plot: fatherhood, father, household, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, parents and children, duty, parenthood, family life, kids and family, mischievous children, homework ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Guys with Kids (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Three 30-something dads try to hold on to their youth as they face the responsibilities of having kids. Thankfully, Gary, Chris and Nick have each other to help navigate the highs and lows of fatherhood - while still trying desperately to remain ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: fatherhood, parents and children, grownups, babies and infants, manhood, adulthood, man child, buddies, family relations, thirtysomething life, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 146K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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Love and the City 2 (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Our three hapless heroes - Igor, Artyom, and Sauna - return for another lesson from St. Valentine. This time they must learn the true value of fatherhood.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching
Plot: fatherhood, curse, childlessness, husband wife relationship, love, cure, infertility, best friend, looking for love, friends, male female relationship
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 8.7
 9
3 Dads (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Takuto Hirabayashi now works at a company, Kyohei Hano works at a trading company and Hajime works for an apparel brand. The three of them are friends since high school and live together in a share house. A day when they come back home they find a ...
Style: feel good, light, funny, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: friendship, fatherhood, friends, parents and children, kids and family, father child relationship, care, child, sick child, child custody, parenthood, child illness ...
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 6.6
 42K
Fatherhood (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own.
Style: sincere, captivating, humorous, inspirational, depressing ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: single father, child, fatherhood, parenthood, father, father daughter relationship, single parent, family relations, father and daughter, parents and children, kids and family, black ...
Place: boston
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Denmark, Australia, Canada, India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael's three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she ...
Style: light, atmospheric, sincere, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: magic, nanny, flying, female protagonist, levitation, imagination, anthropomorphic animal, family relations, love, housekeeper, drawing, fatherhood ...
Time: 1930s, future
Place: big ben london, england, london
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 8.0
 802K
The Incredibles (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
Style: entertaining, funny, exciting, computer animated, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: superhero, heroes, good versus evil, secret identity, superhero team, superheroine, superhuman powers, strong female character, disguise, villain, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: year 2004, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s ...
Place: usa, chicago, fictional island
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Holiday Heart (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A drag queen takes in a drug addict and her daughter and helps raise the daughter.
Style: captivating, black cinema, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbtq, drag queen, gay parent, drug addiction, fatherhood, christmas, gay father, lgbt, family relations, female impersonator, male female relationship, relationships ...
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Dodging the Clock (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The passage of time is probably the only concrete proof we have that justice exists in this cruel world. Some people would like to stop time in its tracks, while others choose to follow its path. In this story, three men in their early thirties have ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: stripper, pregnancy, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, couple relations, sexy nurse, fatherhood, thirtysomething life, unfulfillment, love, party, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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 6.4
 650
Donkey (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother ...
Style: suspense, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure
Plot: family conflict, fatherhood, mediterranean, family relations, husband wife relationship, death of mother, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, lake, donkey, wheelchair
Time: 90s
Place: serbia
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The Lost Prince (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Djibi lives alone with Sofia, his 8-year-old daughter. Every night, he invents a story to put him to sleep. When Sofia falls asleep, these extraordinary stories come to life somewhere in an imaginary world inhabited by knights, pirates and other ...
Style: fairy tale, inspirational, sentimental, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: single father, father daughter relationship, parenting, save the princess, fatherhood, first love, parent child relationship, teenage life, father daughter estrangement, father child relationship, father daughter conflict, imaginary ...
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 5.8
 4K
Barry Munday (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
Style: semi serious, humorous, offbeat, captivating, light ...
Plot: castration, family relations, pregnancy, doctor, self discovery, meet the parents, eccentric family, disorder, couples, fatherhood, male female relationship, childbirth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.2
 1.1M
Finding Nemo (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: friendship, underwater, shark, memory loss, father son relationship, animal, freedom, courage, single father, rescue, odd couple, talking animal ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new south wales, oceania, pacific ocean, sydney australia
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Messy Christmas (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A holiday celebration with the extended family gets stretched to the breaking point in this comedy from Germany. Sara is happily married to Jan, though this wasn't always the case -- Sara is Jan's second wife, while Sara has three ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, biting
Plot: couples, eccentric family, family relations, lovers reunited, ex husband, new love, dark humor, family problems, road not taken, destructive relationship, baby, fatherhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Women or Children First (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, midlife crisis, hopes, friends, couples, unfulfillment, human nature, fatherhood, ex girlfriend, boy, love, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brittany
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 4.3
 244
The Lulú Club (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Racing against time, a Chilean dad and his friends embark on a mishap-filled adventure across the Andes to gain custody of a daughter he's never met.
Style: road movie, satirical, thrilling, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot: fatherhood, race against time, male protagonist, friendship, paternity revealed, problem, parents and children, parents, father and daughter, family problems, satire, family relations ...
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 5.3
 651
Fonzy (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in Paris, a man working in fish delivery becomes involved in a legal battle with his sperm donations.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: parents and children, artificial insemination, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, pregnancy, disorder, fatherhood, sperm donor, snow, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, usa
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All Cats Are Grey (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This Belgian drama is about the special bond between father and daughter. Paul is a 46 year old PI. Dorothy is almost 16 and has an identity crisis when she finds out her father isn't her biological father. Her mother won't tell her ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot: private detective, unknown father, obsession, teenage life, youth, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, paternity revealed, fatherhood, nightclub, coming of age, drug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium, brussels
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The Holy Child (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marc (Lambert Wilson) is a man of the cloth who's gained a bit of celebrity for his public espousal of religious celibacy. In fact, he's even written a book about the subject. But Marc's 15 minutes of fame could be up when a bratty ...
Style: sincere, humorous, semi serious, captivating, crying
Plot: illegitimate son, secret, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, friendship, teenage boy, fatherhood, satire, catholic priest, juvenile delinquent, bastard, scandal ...
Place: montreal, kosovo, paris france
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 5.4
 252
Teen Spirit (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part pour lui apprendre qu'il est le père de Nancy, 13 ans, dont il n'a jamais soupçonné ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
Plot: family relations, best friend, couples, youth, friends, self discovery, lifestyle, life turned upside down, couple relations, introspection, parents and children, rock ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 5.9
 1K
The Storage (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, working class, couples, workplace, blackmail, unwanted pregnancy, friends, disorder, society, workplace romance, workplace situations, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
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Father of a Soldier (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in ...
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, military, father son relationship, red army, soldier, dead son, fatherhood, wound, death of son, patriot, spirituality ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, georgia, berlin germany ...
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Bad Luck Love (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined in this acclaimed drama from Finland. Ali (Jorma Tommila) is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, serious, gloomy
Plot: family problems, down on your luck, haunted by the past, starting over, society, going straight, violence, jail, fatherhood, parent child relationship, male female relationship, ex convict ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, finland
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