An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
Casts Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick, Dody Goodman, Sal Viscuso, Panchito Gómez, Charley Lau, Brian Part, Billie Bird
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After the Wedding
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Mildred Pierce
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The Lady Eve
Rumor Has It...
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Showtime
King of California
The Quiet
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Alas Roban
Abre Alas
The Shaggy Dog
Ghost Dad
My Father the Hero
Nim's Island
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After the Wedding
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 2006
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1974
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.Three Seasons
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 1999
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.Der Tote am Strand
IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 2006
After 15 years in the USA, a woman in her mid-30s returns to Germany to reconcile with her father, who had broken off contact with her. Before the discussion can take place, the father is murdered. In the course of the investigation, long suppressed secrets come to light.Mildred Pierce
IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 1945
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.Chances Are
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 1989
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.The Lady Eve
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 1941
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.Rumor Has It...
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 2005
Sarah Huttinger is a woman who learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film "The Graduate" -- and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2007
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.Showtime
IMDB 5.5 | Mar , 2002
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.King of California
IMDB 6.4 | Jan , 2007
Charlie gets released from an insane asylum and moves in with Miranda, the young daughter he left behind. Charlie believes that there is treasure hidden beneath the local Costco, so he puts together a plan to unearth the loot. By convincing Miranda to quit her job at McDonald's and instead work at the wholesale store, he is able to obtain a key. Although Miranda is skeptical, she helps her father with his irrational quest.The Quiet
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2005
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
IMDB 5.3 | Feb , 1992
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.Alas Roban
IMDB 5.2 | Jan , 2026
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IMDB 10 | Jul , 2024
The Shaggy Dog
IMDB 4.9 | Mar , 2006
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.Ghost Dad
IMDB 5.1 | Jun , 1990
Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a taxi accident. With the aid of a paranormal researcher, Elliott attempts to complete the deal from the beyond, ensuring his family will be taken care of.My Father the Hero
IMDB 5.3 | Feb , 1994
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover. Remake of the 1991 French film Mon père, ce héros.Nim's Island
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 2008
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.East Is East
IMDB 6.5 | May , 1999
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.