Top Daughter Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Kwak Do-won

Hwang Jung-min

Chun Woo-hee

Jun Kunimura

The Wailing (2016)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Plot: daughter, small town, police, investigation, exorcism, possession, murder, priest, ...

Cast

Jodi Benson

Samuel E. Wright

Pat Carroll

Christopher Daniel Barnes

The Little Mermaid (1989)

7.4 8.4K votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: G

Story: This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.

Plot: witch, princess, sea, daughter, kingdom, fireworks, cartoon, mermaid, ...

Dirty Dancing (1987)

7.3 6.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

Plot: hotel, daughter, dancing, secret love, robbery, sibling relationship, summer camp, dancing master, ...

Cast

Saikumar

Mukesh

Innocent

Rekha

Ramji Rao Speaking (1989)

7.3 31 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 150 min.

Story: The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.

Plot: daughter, businessman, kidnapping, rich, phone call, unemployed

Cast

Toni Collette

Alex Wolff

Gabriel Byrne

Milly Shapiro

Hereditary (2018)

7.3 8.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

Plot: daughter, funeral, parent child relationship, loss of loved one, ritual, supernatural, possession, dysfunctional family, ...

Cast

Swara Bhasker

Ratna Pathak Shah

Pankaj Tripathi

Riya Shukla

Nil Battey Sannata (2016)

7.2 49 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: India

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.

Plot: daughter, family, woman director, back to school, maths

Place: india

Cast

Mel Gibson

Heath Ledger

Joely Richardson

Jason Isaacs

The Patriot (2000)

7.2 4.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 165 min.

Audience: R

Story: After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

Plot: daughter, mission, general, southern usa, loss of loved one, rebel, patriotism, insurgence, ...

Time: 18th century

Cast

Russell Crowe

Ryan Gosling

Angourie Rice

Matt Bomer

The Nice Guys (2016)

7.1 8.7K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

Plot: daughter, detective, investigation, alcoholism, private investigator, conspiracy, whodunit, alcoholic, ...

Time: 1970s

Stomp the Yard (2007)

7.1 543 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.

Plot: daughter, loss of loved one, love at first sight, breakdance

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ethan Hawke

Albert Finney

Marisa Tomei

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

7.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Plot: daughter, career, sibling relationship, office, drug addiction, greed, investigation, hold-up robbery, ...

Cast

Woody Harrelson

Juliette Lewis

Robert Downey Jr.

Tommy Lee Jones

Natural Born Killers (1994)

7.1 3.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Style: tense

Plot: daughter, journalist, sadistic, mass murder, yellow press, pop culture, trauma, controversy, ...

Mildred Pierce (2011) TV Show

7.0 267 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

Plot: based on novel or book, infidelity, restaurant, strong woman, business woman, respect, daughter, rags to riches, ...

Time: great depression, 1930s

Place: california

Matchstick Men (2003)

7.0 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

Plot: daughter, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, con man, pole dancer, obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd), criminal, bank vault, ...

Cast

Song Kang-ho

Byun Hee-bong

Park Hae-il

Bae Doona

The Host (2006)

7.0 3.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

Plot: daughter, pollution, monster, river, bravery, sewerage, formaldehyde, snack bar, ...

The Frighteners (1996)

7.0 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Country: New Zealand, United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

Plot: daughter, small town, mother, sheriff, judge, funeral, widow, fbi, ...

Cast

Denis Lavant

u00c9dith Scob

Eva Mendes

Kylie Minogue

Holy Motors (2012)

7.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: NR

Story: We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

Plot: daughter, work, businessman, photographer, kidnapping, cemetery, accordion, knife, ...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Cast

Tom Blyth

Rachel Zegler

Peter Dinklage

Jason Schwartzman

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

7.0 3.6K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

Plot: daughter, based on novel or book, arena, fight, mentor, dystopia, riot, exploration, ...

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Emma Stone

Ryan Reynolds

Catherine Keener

The Croods (2013)

6.9 7.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night. When a more evolved caveman named Guy arrives on the scene, Grug is distrustful, but it soon becomes apparent that Guy is correct about the impending destruction of their world.

Plot: daughter, parent child relationship, father, prehistory, ancient world, family, cavemen, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Time: stone age

Cast

Michael C. Hall

Amy James-Kelly

Amanda Abbington

Freddie Thorp

Safe (2018) TV Show

6.9 387 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After his daughter goes missing, a widower begins uncovering the dark secrets of the people closest to him.

Style: dark, slow burn, gritty, suspenseful

Plot: daughter, missing child, thriller

Time: 2010s

The Descendants (2011)

6.8 3.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

Plot: daughter, infidelity, father-in-law, beach house, boating accident, estate, dying mother, teenage daughter, ...

Place: hawaii

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