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1) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A decade after a plague has wiped out nearly all of the world's female population, a father and daughter live on the outskirts of what's left of civilization as they once knew it. Disguising his daughter as a boy, the father struggles to protect her from newfound dangers as they are forced from their home into dangerous territory.
Series
Criterion collection volume 354
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Director-approved special ed.; widescreen format (1.66:1).
Language
English
Description
A schizophrenic man attempts to track down his young daughter after he is released from an institution.
5) Piku
Publisher
Reliance Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Hindi
Description
A quirky comedy about the relationship between an aging father and his young daughter, living in a cosmopolitan city, dealing with each other's conflicting ideologies while being fully aware that they are each other's only emotional support.
"Bhashkor is not your typical Bollywood papa, and "Piku," directed by Shoojit Sircar from a script by Juhi Chaturvedi, isn't a typical Hindi movie."--New York Times
"While the movie has far more toilet humor...
6) Maggie
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl is infected by a disease that slowly turns her into a zombie.
7) High life
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
9) Bridgend
Publisher
kimstim
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Sara accompanies her policeman dad, Dave who is sent to a small town to investigate a mysterious rash of suicides among its teen inhabitants. At first Sara has trouble adjusting as the new girl while Dave's efforts to uncover the source of the tragedies are rebuffed by the village teens. Sara becomes infatuated with a dangerous local, Jamie, and finds herself becoming engulfed in a dark and ritualistically strange youth culture that threatens her...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand-drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deeply felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight - and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Daffodil Dunes is a cozy camping-park community on the scenic and serene north Wales coast. When owner Frank announces that he plans to sell the park to an enticing estate agent, his strong-willed daughter, Carys sets out to change his mind, in this endearing family drama.
12) Wilson
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
13) Crawl
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
14) Landline
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
When sisters Dana and Ali suspect their father is having an affair, cracks in their family façade begin to surface. The two sisters bond as they discover the reality of love while trying to uncover the truth about their father without their mother knowing.
15) Fly away home
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed., widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
Publisher
Bbc Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Follow Detective Constable Marcus Farrow as he races against time to clear his name of a brutal crime in the first electrifying season. Then, experience the lengths Prison Officer Dave Murdoch will travel to in order to save the life of his threatened daughter. Both high-stakes games of cat and mouse will leave your adrenaline pumping and begging the question what do you do when the hunter becomes the hunted?
18) Tomb raider
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father disappeared.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A woman with a secret past returns to the wilds of her youth to face the most dangerous man she's ever met: her father. Helena's seemingly ordinary life hides a dangerous truth: her estranged father is the infamous Marsh King, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. When he escapes from prison, Helena is forced to confront her past, and--knowing that he will hunt for her--find the strength to outmaneuver the man who...
20) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
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