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21) Crawl
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
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.
22) Graduation
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
Romanian
Formats
Description
Blending rigorous naturalism with the precise construction of a thriller, this Cannes award-winning drama from Cristian Mungiu sheds light on the high stakes and ethical complexities of life in contemporary Romania. As his daughter nears high-school graduation, Romeo, an upstanding doctor, counts on her winning a competitive scholarship that will send her to university in England.
23) The last song
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
24) Gifted
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
25) Ana
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unlikely friendship between a car dealer and a street urchin causes them to go on a colorful journey to find her father and save him from bankruptcy.
26) Stillwater
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Language
English
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
27) The old way
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after murdering a man, an old gunslinger and his daughter discover that the murdered man's son has returned for revenge.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The heartwarming and hilarious story of a father and daughter who single-handedly attempt to save Christmas...in Santaville. What starts out as an attempt to bail out her dad ends up rekindling Holly's belief in Christmas all over again. The snowflakes will fly in this holiday film.
30) Maggie
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic thriller set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic. As the nation reels from a virus that turns its victims into zombies, Wade's daughter Maggie has been infected. Now, as Maggie's condition worsens, Wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus.
32) As you like it
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Rosalind is the daughter of banished Duke Senior and is being raised at the court of Duke Frederick, with her cousin Celia. She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia goes with Rosalind. Disguised as the boy Ganymede, Rosalind enters the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing...
33) Sink or swim
Author
Series
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...
34) Leave no trace
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. Nominated for Best Feature, Best Supporting Female, and Best Director at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.**...
35) The hero
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
36) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to a brewery fortune. But when the con artist falls for her...
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy...
38) Never look away
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Even after German artist, Kurt Barnert escaped from East Germany into West Germany, he is tormented by his childhood under the GDR-regime and the Nazis.
39) Blood father
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Non-stop action in this dynamic thrill ride. Estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
40) Proof
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A devoted daughter who comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, with the help of one of her father's former students.
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