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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014, ©2011.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Baxter, world voyager and one daredevil of a marketing director ... is about to face his greatest challenge yet-- his family. After Mike's wife, Vanessa ... , receives a promotion at work, Mike must spend more time in his female-dominated household. With years of advice and guidance from their nurturing mother, Mike's three daughters are not prepared for their old-fashioned, hotheaded father to take over"--Container.
82) Stillwater
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
83) The old way
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.
Publisher
Criterion Collection ; [Chicago, IL]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.
85) The foreigner
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
86) Beast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed Dr. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters travel to a South African game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. However, what begins as a journey of healing soon turns into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of bloodthirsty poachers, begins stalking them.
87) Inkheart
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...
88) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
89) Hearts beat loud
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam off to college while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly jam sessions into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an internet breakout, the two embark on a journey of love, growing up and musical...
90) Wilson
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
91) The outsider
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Recalled from the battlefields of Afghanistan to identify the remains of his daughter, British mercenary Lex Walker arrives in Los Angeles to find that the body in the morgue belongs to a stranger. With his daughter now missing, Walker convinces a street-wise detective that his daughter is still alive and in danger. The two follow a trail of high-tech intrigue that leads them to his daughter2s former boss, a crooked cyber-millionaire who will do whatever...
92) Endless love
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy share an instant desire that sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Investment adviser Darcy Fitzwilliam sought to show that she could make it outside of the family firm...but when the coordinator for her mom's upcoming seasonal charity auction bailed, she found herself guiltily heading home to help out. Worse, she now had to deal with a high school rival - restaurateur Luke Bennett - in order to bring the event off. Will the flinty relationship strike unexpected sparks?
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter, Olive, is growing up under questionable guidance. He's helplessly driving...
97) Boundaries
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Laura is a single mother, who has a constant need to put rescue animals before her. When her estranged, criminally-minded father Jack is kicked out of his retirement home, Laura agrees to drive him to live with her sister. Along for the ride is her bright but troubled son Henry, and an assortment of animal charity cases. Jack convinces Henry to help him sell off his copious supply of marijuana at every stop of their journey, resulting in unexpected...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It takes a village, or as The Chance family proves, it takes one well-intentioned but slightly nutty family to raise Hope. Season three include the bumpy road to the alter for Sabrina and Jimmy, the casting of Hope on 'Yo Zappa Do' and the plot to break Maw Maw out of the nursing home, or should they? With relentless laughs and a stellar cast, Raising Hope charmingly reminds us that happiness is making the best of what we are given.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
There are two new additions to the Tanner family and tons of laughs! Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season. Watch as Danny is bachelor of the month; DJ learns how to drive; Michelle turns five; and Becky and Jesse have twins!
100) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
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