| Dad (2021) | 6.7 | |
| 20th Century Women (2016) | 7.3 | |
| Trying (2020) | 8.0 | |
| Papa & Daddy (2021) | 7.8 | |
| Boyhood (2014) | 7.9 |
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
A recently widowed workaholic clumsily navigates life with his kids, guided by his late wife's online tips. Can he ace this crash course in parenthood?
Style:
comedy drama, emotional, heartfelt, motivational, family comedy
Plot:
single father, widower, parenting, family drama, bereavement, children, workaholic, grief, loss, healing, self discovery, slice of life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sequel to "An Unexpected Family."
Style:
emotional, uplifting, sentimental, feel good, realistic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
adoption, orphan, parenting, family drama, love, heartwarming, bonding, house, responsibility, sacrifice, women, slice of life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 515 min.
TV show
Story:
Jamie Diadoni was almost a rock star in the 60s but it never quite came together. Now, married to Julie, and redundant from his job, he stays at home with son Jake, aged 6 and takes him to the local playground, surrounded by admiring mothers.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, parenting, family life, domestic drama, family crisis, anxiety, marital strife, family home, character study, guilt, social realism, palm reading ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
When Tal did the unthinkable and took some time off work to spend time with his family, he realized he was a stranger in his own house. Reconnecting was difficult, but Tal created a unique bond with his mentally disabled teenage daughter.
Style:
entertaining, funny, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, father and daughter, family relations, empathy, family drama, parenting, disability, lifestyle, satire, kids and family, family life, relationships ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.
Style:
family comedy, sitcom, lighthearted, situational comedy, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
hypnosis, parenting, house, switching roles, unhappiness, family conflict, obedience, family values, comedy of manners, exploitation, youth, parent child relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Lisa Ann reenters the work force after attending law school and starting a family. She deals with the difficulties of having a job and children with humor and a supportive husband.
Style:
sitcom, family comedy, humorous, lighthearted
Plot:
assistant district attorney, marriage, parenting, children, working mom, female protagonist, heartwarming, urban, gender roles, lawyer, law enforcement, motherhood ...
Place:
baltimore
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After his wife’s death, Michael loses track of what’s important. That’s why it’s strictly business between Michael and Faith, the attractive nanny he’s hired to take care of his troubled 7-year-old daughter, Lily. When Faith helps Lily ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, romantic drama, sentimental
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
grief, single father, bonding, parenting, loss, daughter, relationships, house, healing, bereavement, nanny, trust ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Please Don't Eat the Daisies is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 14, 1965 to April 22, 1967. The series was based upon the 1957 book by Jean Kerr and 1960 film starring Doris Day and David Niven.
The series ran for 58 ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, family comedy, lighthearted, slapstick
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
suburban life, parenting, marriage, large family, family values, middle class, newspaper columnist, college professor, brothers, supportive spouse, adaptation, dog ...
Place:
new york, new york state
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Major Dad is an American sitcom created by Richard C. Okie and John G. Stephens, developed by Earl Pomerantz, that originally ran from 1989 to 1993 on CBS, starring Gerald McRaney as Major John D. MacGillis and Shanna Reed as his wife Polly. The ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, situational comedy, lighthearted, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing
Plot:
blended family, marines, military life, fatherhood, culture clash, stepfather, parenting, military, fish out of water, marriage, heartwarming, single mother ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Indonesia, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In two weeks absence of his wife, a young brilliant architect has to look after his two little girls as a clueless father. In the meantime he got a deadline of the most important project in his career.
Style:
feel good, realistic, emotional, family comedy, indonesian
Plot:
family drama, children, single father, fatherhood, parenting, deadline, management, heartwarming, architect, slice of life, personal growth, architecture ...
Place:
indonesia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pair of new parents navigate postpartum life following the birth of their first child.
Style:
realistic, lighthearted, family comedy
Plot:
parenting, newborn, family life, motherhood, fatherhood, parents, sleep deprivation, slice of life, intimate, breast feeding, everyday life, large family ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally come home via her drug-addicted ...
Style:
crime drama, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, period piece ...
Plot:
addiction, poverty, drug addiction, father daughter relationship, family drama, parenting, substance abuse, single father, social issues, protection, urban, sacrifice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
philadelphia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The number 16 is cursed, not sweet, for women in the Walker family, according to single mother Maddy Walker. She is convinced in the existence of the "Walker women's curse" because she was born when her mother Loretta was 16, and ...
Style:
feel good, sitcom, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
black cast, parenting, mother daughter relationship, motherhood, single mother, high priced lawyer, african american man, daughter, teenage daughter, african american woman, african american, mother and daughter ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
24 hours in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.
Style:
captivating, emotional
Plot:
motherhood, family life, slice of life, family relations, parenting, female protagonist, everyday life, mother, children, working mom, kids and family, parents and children ...
Place:
budapest
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
The trials and tribulations of Jo and Bill, parents of two young kids, as they try to make it day to day as a functioning family. Bill’s very judgmental live-in mother and Jo’s large, Latinx Catholic family will never hesitate to let our couple ...
Style:
sitcom, funny, semi serious, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
married couple, young couple, children, everyday life, parenting, family life, family relations, parents and children, kids and family, relationships, living together, eccentric family ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Family
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
BP is about four teenage friends (Avya, Bhagya, Chiu and Dolly), who over hear that, a friend, a resident of their colony, Jyoti tai, has left their colony, as she has brought disgrace to her family. Having received unsatisfactory explanations from ...
Style:
educational, sensitive, comedy drama, light hearted, dramatic
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, sex education, teenage sexuality, parenting, teenager, puberty, innocence, friendship, curiosity, high school life, life lesson ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike and Peggy raise eight boisterous boys. There are 10 people, three bedrooms, one bathroom and everyone in it for themselves.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, atmospheric, absurd ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
large family, working class, family conflict, conservatism, parenting, career change, suburbs, showbiz, sibling rivalry, family values, nostalgia, blue collar ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Comedy about a husband and wife trying to raise their five kids in a New York two-bedroom apartment.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, family comedy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
silly humor, family relations, parents and children, couples, couple relations, family life, wife, parenting, stand up comedian, everyday life, marriage, stand up comedy ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
TV show
Story:
Jess must navigate her son's primary school world filled with other mothers keen on advancing their children's futures.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
high school life, satire, motherhood, parenting, school, parenthood, ambition, humour, parents and children, parents, everyday life, children ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A father left in charge of his three children while mum goes away on a 10-day holiday… What could possibly go wrong?
Style:
feel good, family comedy, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, father son relationship, family relations, youth, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, parents, families, fatherhood, parenting, family life, society ...
Is relevant?
394
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
single mother, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mother and daughter, woman, motherhood, family relations, family drama, mother love, parenting, family problems, mother daughter estrangement ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
Back in his high school years, Kazama Masamune had a girlfriend four years his senior, who one day left to go study abroad. Now, six years later, Kazama hears that his girlfriend has passed away, and that she had secretly given birth to their ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
male protagonist, single parent, family drama, family bonds, parenting, child protagonist, single father, parent child relationship, paternity revealed, family relations, father daughter relationship, parenthood ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Lena and Martin were once madly in love. But, like many marriages, time and circumstance eventually took their toll, and they decide that everyone's lives would be better if they got a divorce. Facing a daunting real estate market, the couple ...
Style:
sitcom, emotional, sentimental, comedy drama, talky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
divorce, marital separation, marriage, parents and children, parenting, family problems, understanding, second chance, reconciliation, self discovery, midlife crisis, children ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Five moms in a competitive grade school community keep their enemies close, and one another closer, as envy and secrets tangle and unravel their lives.
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
friendship, motherhood, personal growth, mother, club, family drama, parenthood, lifestyle change, sorority, changing lives, parenting, healing ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
École Marie-Labrecque is a one-of-a-kind institution: The 60 girls who study at the school are all between the ages of 12 and 17, and they're all pregnant or new mothers. The school's mission is twofold: to give them an education and to ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional
Plot:
pregnant woman, motherhood, pregnant teenager, high school, mother child relationship, parenting, adolescence, parents and children, pregnancy, pregnant girlfriend, training, school ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Romance
Country: Colombia
TV show
Story:
The plot revolves around 4 friends of different ages football fans who have a small team, in addition to this the 4 are non-conventional parents who will have to assume their role as parents.
Style:
disturbing, entertaining, psychological, captivating, family comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, slice of life, football, parenthood, soccer, parenting, parents and children, fatherhood, group of friends, parents, friends, lifestyle ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
colombia, latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Our three hapless heroes - Igor, Artyom, and Sauna - return for the third lesson from St. Valentine. This time they must learn the true value of fatherhood, but this time the kids are grown up...
Style:
feel good, satirical, funny, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot:
love, family relations, friends, parents and children, father daughter relationship, love and romance, parenting, fatherhood, coming of age, disorder, marriage, youth ...
Place:
las vegas
Is relevant?
142K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
Is relevant?
276K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, serial killer, evil child, female psychopath, fear, mysterious character, creepy child, children, parents and children, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Kang Ha-Ri, with her bright personality, works part-time at a stationary store and a nail shop. Min Deul-Re was a popular actress, but she isn't so popular these days. Kim Eun-Hyang worked as a secretary prior to the birth of her daughter, but ...
Style:
captivating, soap opera, entertaining
Plot:
parents and children, tragic event, parenting, family tragedy, sister sister relationship, strong female lead, problem solving, parenthood, sister, tragic past, sisters, life ...
Place:
korea
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