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A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After 15 years, Pat moves home from Hawaii with his two sons and through a series of coincidences, or Godwinks, ends up stuck in traffic next to his high school sweetheart, Margie, at Christmas.
Style: light, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy
Plot: christmas, holiday, single father, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, male female relationship, family relations, love affair, in love, first love, couple relations ...
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Christmas in the Air (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lydia, a successful professional organizer, is constantly trying to grow her business, but even her ambition takes a back seat to love when she meets Robert, a frazzled widower with two young children. A toy inventor, Robert is asked to present his ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, single father, happy ending, winter, christmas eve, second chance, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, parents and children, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love ...
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 6.7
 21K
Martian Child (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, father son relationship, imagination, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, single father, mars, writers, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
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Bringing Down the House (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Straight-laced lawyer, Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) meets and falls in love with online chat friend "Lawyer-Girl", Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), only to discover she's a convicted bank robber. Charlene escapes from jail and comes ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lawyer, friendship, divorce, workaholic, odd couple, farce, interracial romance, couple relations, looking for love, comedy of errors, prison, single parent ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
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Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, feel good, hood ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, custody, black, lawyer, looking for love, love and romance, society, legal, fall in love, human spirit, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
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 5.6
 100K
The Pacifier (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Disgraced Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains hidden in the kids' house.
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, funny, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: nanny, children, mischievous children, undercover cop, good versus evil, bodyguard, fight scenes, one against many, fish out of water, adult child friendship, special agent, danger ...
Time: year 2005, 2010s
Place: usa
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Dunston Checks In (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a villainous jewel thief with an orangutan assistant named Dunston. When Dunston gets loose and tries to ...
Style: humorous, light, not serious, entertaining, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: hotel, orangutan, father son relationship, childhood, single father, animal, cons and scams, mischievous children, nothing goes right, youth, jewel theft, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1995
Place: bali
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Where the Heart Is (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
Style: humorous, satirical, touching, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot: farce, single father, fashion, social differences, destiny, life philosophy, society, family problems, real estate, family drama, art, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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Vicky and Her Mystery (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Stéphane decides to move to the beautiful mountains of Cantal in order to reconnect with his 8-year-old daughter, Victoria, who has been silent since her mother's disappearance. During a walk in the forest, a shepherd gives Victoria a puppy ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, sweet, emotional
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: wolf, human animal relationship, single father, little girl, wolf pack, countryside, father daughter relationship, loss of mother, wildlife, win over, goodhearted, friendship ...
Place: france
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 7.2
 5K
The Unicorn (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A tight-knit group of best friends and family helps Wade embrace his “new normal” in the wake of the loss of his wife. As a sometimes ill-equipped but always devoted single parent to his two adolescent daughters, he is taking the major step of ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, light, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: dating, father daughter relationship, widower, parenting, single father, father, advice, flirting, new love, love and romance, friendship, male female relationship ...
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Christmas Harmony (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman returns to her small hometown to rediscover music, family bonds, and the magic of the Christmas season.
Style: humorous, sweet, entertaining, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, single father, singer, love interest, male female relationship, uncle nephew relationship, small town, father daughter relationship, homecoming, love and romance, goodhearted ...
Place: los angeles
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Playing for Keeps (2012)
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, funny, sexy, inspirational, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: soccer, father son relationship, football, soccer coach, single father, eligible bachelor, relationships, mentor, parents, family drama, athlete, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
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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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 6.8
 369
Date My Dad (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Since the loss of his beloved Isabella three years ago, Ricky Cooper's only agenda has been to be the best dad he can be. But little does Ricky realize that his girls have an agenda of their own: get dad a girlfriend.
Style: romantic, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: single father, father daughter relationship, family relations, loss, parents and children, relationships, couple relations, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, dating, father and daughter ...
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My Dad's Christmas Date (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16 and her Dad, David is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and Jules’ relationship is no different from that of most fathers and their sixteen-year-old ...
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, sweet, humorous ...
Plot: christmas, father daughter relationship, holiday, online dating, father and daughter, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, male female relationship, problem solving, single parent, single father, parents and children ...
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Is Love Sustainable? (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story: Sawada Kyoka is a yoga instructor with a rough personality and constantly fights with her father after her mother passed away. Due to having to spend the time taking care of her father, Kyoka doesn't have much time for herself and has very ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical
Plot: family relations, father daughter relationship, single father, single parent, male female relationship, loss of wife, bereavement, father, relationships, family problems, loss of mother, father and daughter ...
Place: japan
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Love You Like Christmas (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Maddie, a high-powered marketing executive, is on her way to a client’s wedding but her plans are derailed by car trouble. When a fork in the road leads her to Christmas Valley, a town in love with Christmas, an unexpected encounter and a group of ...
Style: feel good, romantic, light, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, small town, holiday, single father, christmas romance, fall in love, father daughter relationship, happy ending, car breakdown, winter, opposites attract, unlikely couple ...
Place: new york, ohio
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 7.3
 256K
Southpaw (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and ...
Style: touching, inspirational, dramatic, sentimental, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, father daughter relationship, athlete's life, death of wife, tragedy, contests and competitions, down on your luck, grief, parenthood, family relations, rise and fall ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, madison square garden manhattan new york city, usa, new york, las vegas ...
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 6.1
 9K
Blossom (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Blossom is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC from January 3, 1991, to May 22, 1995. The series was created by Don Reo, and starred Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo, a teenager living with her father and two brothers. It was produced by Reo's ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, touching, witty ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: female protagonist, single father, single parent, eccentric family, teenage life, youth, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, friendship between girls, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: california
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 6.5
 2K
Agnes Browne (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style: emotional, sentimental, humorous, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot: poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, happy ending, single father, best friend, childhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 60s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: redemption, coming of age, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: connecticut
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 6.0
 30K
Hope Floats (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, light, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, starting over, happy ending, couples, infidelity, love story, love, family relations, betrayal, married woman, family problems, divorce ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, chicago
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The Substance of Fire (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the ...
Style: melancholic, talky, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: family bonds, writer's life, single father, writers, book, family problems, love and romance, introspection, dealing with death, family life, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1996
Place: new york, usa
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The American President (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and ...
Style: political, romantic, touching, witty, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: politics, president, love story, white house, love, election, widower, world politics, single father, liberal, dating, republican ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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Wild About Harry (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: British widower Harry Goodhart (Tate Donovan) decides to make a fresh start and moves with his teenage daughters (Danielle Savre and Skye McCole Bartusiak) to Cape Cod in 1973. But Harry can't leave behind the secret that threatens to tear his ...
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: gay parent, family relations, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, single father, widower, teenage life, parents and children, closeted homosexual, youth, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: massachusetts
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Young Lady and Gentleman (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Lee Young Kook is a widower with three children. He still hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife. He decides to hire Park Dan Dan as a live-in tutor for his kids and he becomes attracted to her. Meanwhile, Park Dan Dan has bright and positive ...
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: tutor, single father, family relations, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance, children, female protagonist, young woman, young girl, love, rich man poor woman ...
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadvertently discovers a heist - and it's up to Blart to apprehend the ...
Style: funny, feel good, romantic, action comedy, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: fight scenes, justice, shopping mall, single father, family relations, goofy hero, parents and children, shopping, wilhelm scream, cop, heist, art ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
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The Wrong Stepmother (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Michael, who lost his wife a few years back, has been use to being a single dad to his two daughters until his new girlfriend Maddie comes along.
Style: captivating
Plot: stepmother stepdaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, stepmother, single father, high school student, suspicion, family problems, family relations, father, relationships, couple relations, feminine wiles ...
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The Fabulous Patars (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Denis struggles to raise his boisterous daughters Janine and Mercredi on his own while holding down two jobs. Everything goes sour when Denis forgets Mercredi one too many times at the school gates. Séverine, a cheerful social worker, is appointed ...
Style: satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating
Plot: social worker, sister sister relationship, single father, family relations, kids and family, parents and children, father, family life, family problems, child custody, father daughter relationship, satire ...
Time: year 2016
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All About the Andersons (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
TV show
Story: As soon as single dad Anthony moves back into his parents' home to provide a stable environment for his 8-year-old son, he immediately remembers why he left in the first place. His mother Flo is always understanding and supportive, but his ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: family relations, living with parents, single father, parents and children, family life, unfulfillment, father son relationship, actor, black, love, follow your dream, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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