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21) Meet Joe Black
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
Death appears to claim a man who bargains for more time, during which Death falls in love with his daughter.
Publisher
AMC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble.
23) Roadkill
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Peter Laurence is a political outsider who is very popular with the people. Fresh from a successful libel case against a journalist printing stories alleging corruption, he's a man on the rise. But Peter has plenty of skeletons in his closet. And soon he discovers another - an illegitimate daughter serving a prison sentence. It's a secret that could ruin him. And one, apparently, that his Prime Minister already knows.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Follows the everyday trials of single dad Louie as he struggles to raise his kids, advance his career, and somehow get some action in the meantime. Facing one bummer after another, Louie takes on inattentive crowds, insane relatives, and a hair-raising U.S.O. tour of Afghanistan.
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A lonely woman receives a golden doodle as a gift for Christmas. A single father is struggling to raise his daughter after a traumatic Christmas the year prior. In this heartwarming journey, the Christmas doodle will have them cross paths for Christmas.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair, an outrageous act for which he suffer an agonizing remorse. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out in Casterbridge. He attempts to right the long-ago wrong and sets in motion a series of events that spell his destruction.
28) Term life
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While on the run, a thief takes out a life insurance policy on himself in order to leave something for his daughter.
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 8
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A bitter southern father turns his back on his family after the Civil War; can his sweet granddaughter make him return?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
Publisher
FilmDistrict
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
32) 3 days to kill
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he's previously kept at arm's length to keep out of danger. First, he must complete one last mission, even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years while his wife...
33) Intruders
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow's beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.
34) Graduation
Series
Criterion collection volume 924
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Romanian
Description
After his daughter is assaulted and is unable to concentrate on her studies, a father resorts to drastic measures to help her pass an exam so she can win a scholarship and go to university in England.
36) Blood: Series 2
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After a year away from home, disgraced physician Jim Hogan returns to make amends with his family. But when his daughter Fiona's car veers off the road one night, it leads to a disturbing discovery.
38) King Lear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents Shakespeare's tragedy of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns, late in life and after terrible suffering, the value of self-knowledge.
39) The levelling
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Somerset, England. Trainee veterinarian Clover Catto returns to the farm where she grew up after hearing news that her brother has died in what appears to be a suicide. Finding the family home in a state of horrendous disrepair following the 2014 floods that devastated the area, Clover is forced to confront her father Aubrey about the farm, the livestock and, crucially, the details surrounding Harry's death.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an Army officer who is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
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