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41) 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.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A second season of fun and laughter as the girls keep growing up and the grownups try to keep up! Relive D.J.'s first year in junior high, Stephanie's first year of school without her big sister, and Michelle's toddler antics. Includes all 22 episodes.
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 11
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A girl helps her Depression-poor father get a job after she befriends a cantankerous millionaire.
45) Janie Jones
Publisher
Tribeca Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ethan, a struggling rock musician, content with his on-the-road, party lifestyle, has his life turned upside down by the arrival of a thirteen-year-old daughter he never knew he had; and, left with the responsibility of raising Janie Jones, a shy but talented, aspiring musician herself, Ethan takes Janie on a road trip of music, discovery, and father-daughter bonding.
46) Donovan's reef
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A straight-laced Bostonian comes searching for her father, a brawling ex-Navy man living on a South Pacific island.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Catherine, a lonely young woman, is swept off her feet by the handsome Morris Townsend. Suspicious of the young man's true intentions, her father threatens to disown her if she follows her heart and marries against his wishes.
Series
Love comes softly volume 10
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming story adapted from the bestselling 'Love Comes Softly' series by Janette Oke. When the wife of a struggling homesteader on the western frontier unexpectedly dies, the man searches for the strength and courage to raise his young daughter, and finds it, with the help of his parents.
49) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Abe Mandelbaum moves into Cliffside Manor with his deteriorating wife Molly, he forms an improbable relationship with gambler and womanizer, Phil Nicoletti. While Abe feels moving into the home is the end of the road he soon realizes that his life is finding a whole new beginning. Abe and Phil's friendship is challenged when a mysterious nurse claims that her biological father resides in the home.
51) Anna Lucasta
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An illuminating and provocative drama. Sultry siren Eartha Kitt is vibrantly sexy as a lascivious lady of the night, and cool cat Sammy Davis Jr. displays tremendous appeal and power in this torrid tale of love and greed. When wild child Anna Lucasta is thrown out of the house by her self-righteous father, she falls into the life of prostitution, and the arms of streetwise sailor Danny Johnson. But after Anna shocks them all by finally finding true...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
From the uproariously unrestrained mind of comedian Louis C.K. comes the year's most outrageously original comedy! As a newly divorced, well-meaning father raising two young daughters, Louie struggles to cope with his strenuous mid-life shake-up, and his stand-up comedy provides a gleefully warped reflection of his hectic, everyday reality. There are disastrous first dates, indecent proposals, high school bullies, booze-addled play dates-and more....
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Cat Hogan is forced to confront her past when the sudden 'accidental' death of her mother, Mary, draws her back to the family she has spent the last ten years trying to avoid. Now, this uncomfortable reunion awakens sinister demons from the past and shines a suspicious light on her mother's death. However much she wants to believe her death was innocent, her suspicions start to mount against her father when she begins to notice discrepancies in his...
54) High life
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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.
55) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
56) Taken 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both...
58) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
59) Two lovers
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the same darkness that nearly killed him.
60) Blood father
Publisher
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When his estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John Link must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
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