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Netflix
88
8.1
/143419/
83
/2640/
79
/954/
4.3
/735520/
97
/205/
97
/182/
85
/43/
cc age 14+

I'm Still Here (2024)
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
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Disney Plus
87
8.0
/502118/
79
/21693/
77
/10474/
3.9
/846352/
95
/170/
94
/105/
95
/22/
cc age 6+

Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.
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Kanopy
87
8.1
/138219/
80
/3136/
81
/2133/
4.4
/633028/
95
/58/
93
/1254/
81
/13/

Paris, Texas (1984)
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/56920/
79
/1119/
79
/1056/
4.3
/171047/
100
/30/
91
/543/
82
/14/

Mirror (1975)
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
84
8.1
/54061/
82
/3269/
82
/2419/
4.1
/160860/
95
/21/
92
/288/
76
/8/
8.5
/482337/
cc age 10+

Wolf Children (2012)
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
poster
82
7.6
/38812/
77
/1120/
76
/1021/
3.8
/65458/
97
/38/
88
/5532/
83
/19/
cc age 7+

A Little Princess (1995)
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.
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Kanopy
80
7.4
/29408/
73
/457/
70
/444/
3.9
/22180/
96
/133/
77
/405/
87
/33/
cc age 16+

The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
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Curiosity Stream
79
7.5
/261158/
76
/9308/
73
/6556/
3.6
/327013/
81
/198/
84
/3928/
73
/42/
cc age 14+

The Impossible (2012)
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
poster
77
7.1
/27116/
68
/510/
66
/340/
3.6
/8291/
88
/137/
74
/1650/
82
/30/
cc age 16+

Frozen River (2008)
After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.
poster
80
75
7.9
/10875/
80
/205/
76
/215/
4.4
/31674/
71
/14/
90
/68/

Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
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Kanopy
72
7.3
/11131/
75
/866/
73
/452/
3.5
/14844/
73
/15/
78
/36/
66
/8/
7.9
/143268/
cc age 8+

Patema Inverted (2013)
A young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in an inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return home.
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Kanopy
71
7.2
/16829/
71
/421/
70
/290/
3.7
/9864/
74
/81/
78
/696/
63
/25/
cc age 17+

City of Men (2007)
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
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Kanopy
70
6.7
/2022/
62
/45/
57
/42/
3.4
/973/
82
/22/
70
/31/
68
/17/

One Night (2012)
In Havana, Raul dreams of escaping to Miami. Accused of assault, he appeals to Elio to help him reach the forbidden world 90 miles across the ocean. One night, full of hope, they face the biggest challenge of their lives.
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Kanopy
77
70
7.3
/6219/
72
/123/
66
/96/
3.6
/4857/
100
/16/
82
/145/
cc age 9+

The Railway Children (1970)
At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
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Disney Plus
73
70
7.0
/7611/
72
/249/
68
/161/
3.4
/4656/
91
/32/
77
/235/
66
/10/
cc age 9+

The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.
poster
69
6.8
/1210/
58
/8/
57
/25/
3.2
/509/
89
/44/
51
/8/
78
/18/

How I Killed My Father (2001)
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
poster
74
68
7.3
/6892/
74
/149/
72
/120/
3.7
/9122/
81
/54/
82
/293/
67
/19/

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
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Kanopy
68
7.2
/99043/
71
/2504/
68
/1560/
3.5
/59664/
67
/205/
65
/2084/
58
/45/
cc age 17+

August: Osage County (2013)
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
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Fandor
73
66
7.0
/6504/
65
/151/
66
/160/
3.4
/7217/
100
/19/
69
/144/

The Lost World (1925)
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
poster
66
6.7
/426343/
69
/13963/
65
/7432/
3.0
/245021/
72
/204/
69
/41344/
64
/38/
5.3
/447/
cc age 17+

Wanted (2008)
Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.
poster
Fandor
68
66
6.3
/7550/
62
/247/
62
/159/
3.5
/34666/
100
/11/
56
/90/
69
/6/

Messiah of Evil (1975)
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
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Hulu
66
6.7
/42572/
67
/1325/
66
/690/
3.3
/17573/
72
/93/
62
/752/

The Hunter (2011)
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
poster
73
65
7.1
/7763/
71
/84/
67
/101/
3.8
/4472/
85
/27/
76
/40/
70
/5/

Honey (2010)
In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, threatening his livelihood. A bizarre accident kills the father.There is little dialogue or music in the film. The three main characters (Yusuf and his parents) are all fairly taciturn, and the soundtrack is filled out with the sounds of the forest and the creatures that live there.The environment is a recurring theme.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
6.4
/8127/
65
/486/
60
/128/
3.1
/6848/
76
/29/
71
/73/
52
/4/

Watch the Skies (2022)
When a foster home placed teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but kidnapped by UFOs, she takes help from a UFO association to find out the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the laws borders and into a world filled with UFO expeditions, conspiracies and inexplicable phenomena.
poster
Disney Plus
64
5.7
/50131/
64
/3476/
62
/1382/
2.8
/126283/
72
/169/
66
/411/
65
/35/
cc age 8+

Strange World (2022)
A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.
poster
63
6.6
/4268/
63
/63/
58
/44/
3.3
/2864/
50
/10/
57
/56/

That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011)
An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.
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Kanopy
61
5.5
/1276/
46
/34/
56
/28/
3.3
/4136/
88
/32/
38
/1/
67
/12/

I Was at Home, But... (2019)
After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
poster
61
5.8
/42732/
63
/1929/
63
/1578/
3.1
/84536/
57
/134/
50
/1388/
64
/32/
cc age 7+

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a round-the-world adventure, along with Bugs and The VP of Warner Bros. Their mission? Find Damien's father, and the missing blue diamond... and stay one step ahead of The Acme Corp., who wants the diamond for their own purposes.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
59
7.3
/1753/
76
/89/
67
/46/
3.6
/2813/
100

The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.
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Hoopla
58
4.7
/20366/
48
/1256/
53
/350/
2.9
/214461/
73
/137/
44
/69/
66
/25/
cc age 15+

Skinamarink (2023)
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.
poster
MUBI
57
5.7
/14358/
61
/497/
55
/354/
3.2
/20459/
60
/102/
40
/392/
64
/24/

Kaboom (2010)
Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?
poster
57
6.1
/6448/
66
/170/
59
/96/
2.9
/1785/
64
/101/
42
/8/

High Road to China (1983)
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
57
6.7
/6765/
70
/261/
62
/114/
3.1
/1990/
43
/7/
63
/67/
cc age 10+

From Time to Time (2009)
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
poster
Kanopy
77
56
7.0
/3118/
68
/135/
66
/220/
3.5
/6443/
100
/21/
89
/5/

An Impossible Love (2018)
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
poster
Kanopy
66
55
6.7
/4560/
68
/117/
61
/71/
3.3
/2927/
86
/14/
55
/14/
62
/6/

Xenia (2014)
Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
6.3
/2138/
71
/183/
57
/64/
3.0
/910/
53
/60/
57
/30/
44
/14/

Dough (2015)
An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.
poster
69
53
6.8
/4842/
66
/54/
63
/42/
3.4
/1321/
80
/100/

Buddy (2003)
Kristoffer lives in Oslo with his friends Geir and Stig Inge. He works as a billboard installer, and in his spare time he makes a video diary with Geir and Stig, containing stunts of a Jackass-nature. When Kristoffer's girlfriend, Elisabeth, leaves him, his life seems to fall to pieces. Until his videos are featured on Norway's most popular talk show and Kristoffer becomes famous.
poster
61
53
6.2
/4061/
60
/91/
54
/86/
3.0
/2595/
78
/9/
52
/64/

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
poster
Disney Plus
56
53
5.8
/5717/
60
/261/
57
/130/
2.8
/15673/
51
/116/
cc age 8+

Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000)
The Hansen kids are in a jam. Adam and his best friend Duffy have gotten their hands on some tickets for the Headless Horseman concert, and his sister Chelsea has a date with her dreamy boyfriend Peter. The only problem is they're both grounded. Chelsea and Adam will do whatever it takes to get their mom Lynette out of the house, even if it includes a chance meeting with a very mysterious man. Everything seems to go according to plan until their little brother Taylor realizes that this stranger might be a vampire.
poster
The Roku Channel
52
6.1
/8545/
65
/468/
60
/189/
2.9
/2307/
33
/9/
38
/66/

I'll Follow You Down (2013)
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.
poster
64
51
6.6
/3709/
65
/90/
65
/76/
3.2
/1527/
63
/112/

In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.
poster
55
51
5.9
/4916/
66
/221/
58
/79/
3.1
/3196/
17
/6/
68
/278/
cc age 7+

The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr. Neilson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and his sister Anika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a waterfall in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to an orphanage. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.
poster
49
5.5
/13087/
64
/722/
63
/612/
2.9
/21687/
14
/14/
41
/408/
cc age 5+

Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
68
48
6.7
/2093/
65
/61/
56
/40/
3.5
/761/
81
/16/
71
/85/

Skeletons (2010)
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.
poster
Disney Plus
47
4.3
/49627/
58
/5079/
51
/1837/
2.1
/86718/
43
/342/
26
/2413/
53
/52/
cc age 10+

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
46
6.1
/2818/
67
/192/
63
/760/
3.4
/13025/
46
/12/

All That Glitters (2010)
Best friends Ely and Lila share everything together, including their dream of a life beyond the Paris suburb they've lived in since childhood. One night they venture into the capital and meet a pair of wealthy young friends at a night club. Ashamed of their working-class background, and seeing an opportunity to escape, Ely and Lila begin to lie their way into this glamorous new world. Falling deeper into their web of lies, the young women begin to lose sight of themselves as their friendship is pushed to the limit.
poster
Kanopy
46
6.0
/5015/
71
/476/
65
/224/
2.8
/2039/
8
/12/
64
/54/
27
/6/
cc age 14+

The Book of Love (2017)
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
poster
Hoopla
55
45
5.6
/2583/
63
/170/
62
/52/
2.7
/2263/
40
/234/
cc age 9+

A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any other.


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