Top Father Son Relationship Movies & TV Shows

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

7.1 3.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

Style: satirical

Plot: parent child relationship, red cap, dysfunctional family, rivalry, eccentric, pirate, magic realism, estranged father, ...

Cast

Paul Newman

Joanne Woodward

Anthony Franciosa

Orson Welles

The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

7.1 226 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, arranged marriage, host family, family relationships, sexual tension, arson, class differences, ...

Cast

Greg Hsu

Austin Lin

Gingle Wang

Tsai Chen-nan

Marry My Dead Body (2023)

7.1 212 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: After finding an odd envelope, Policeman Ming-han's life takes a spooky turn: He's now wed to a ghost husband, and they must solve a crime together.

Plot: infidelity, friendship, police, homophobia, detective, investigation, hit-and-run, organized crime, ...

Cast

River Phoenix

Keanu Reeves

James Russo

William Richert

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Plot: individual, friendship, treasure, robbery, sibling relationship, rome, italy, parent child relationship, ...

Place: idaho

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Cast

Benicio del Toro

Adrien Brody

Tilda Swinton

Lu00e9a Seydoux

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

7.0 3.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

Style: lighthearted, whimsical

Plot: art collector, journalist, small town, poison, journalism, editor-in-chief, artist, imprisonment, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: france

Cast

Magdalena Cielecka

Filip Pu0142awiak

Piotr u017burawski

Jakub Gierszau0142

The Defence (2018) TV Show

7.0 20 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Poland

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.

Plot: drug abuse, based on novel or book, kidnapping, pedophilia, career woman, prosecution, career, investigation, ...

Transamerica (2005)

7.0 513 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Style: intimate

Plot: new york city, individual, sexual abuse, waitress, parent child relationship, therapist, runaway, new mexico, ...

Cast

Chris Pratt

Samuel L. Jackson

Hannah Waddingham

Ving Rhames

The Garfield Movie (2024)

7.0 1.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Garfield, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.

Plot: friendship, cat, villain, based on comic, lasagna, computer animation, based on cartoon, food, ...

Cast

Michael Keaton

Al Pacino

Marcia Gay Harden

James Marsden

Knox Goes Away (2024)

7.0 508 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the police closing in on him as well as the ticking clock of his own rapidly deteriorating mind.

Plot: dementia, police investigation, father daughter conflict, father son relationship, broken trust, memory deterioration, inevitable downfall, aging hitman, ...

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss

Glenne Headly

Jay Thomas

Olympia Dukakis

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

7.0 459 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Plot: high school, husband wife relationship, composer, music teacher, mentor, deaf-mute, portland, oregon, ...

Time: 1960s, 1990s

Cast

Thomas Jane

Laurie Holden

Toby Jones

Marcia Gay Harden

The Mist (2007)

6.9 5.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

Style: shocking

Plot: monster, based on novel or book, supermarket, fight, faith, prayer, spider, fog, ...

Cast

Romain Duris

Paul Kircher

Adu00e8le Exarchopoulos

Tom Mercier

The Animal Kingdom (2023)

6.9 944 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 127 min.

Story: In a world hit by a wave of mutations transforming humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he and their son Émile embark on a quest that will change their lives forever.

Plot: mutation, human animal relationship, turns into animal, hunted like animals, human becoming an animal, father son relationship, animal transformation, violence against animals, ...

Fences (2016)

6.9 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

Style: intense

Plot: garbageman, war veteran, baseball, father, based on play or musical, family relationships, racism, pittsburgh, ...

Unstable (2023) TV Show

6.9 82 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: He's an eccentric biotech genius. His son's a pragmatist living in his shadow. To save the family business, they'll have to work through some issues.

Plot: family business, workplace comedy, father son relationship, joyful

Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (1989)

6.9 622 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 41 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In order to wish for immortality and avenge his father, Garlic Jr. collects the dragon balls, kidnapping Goku's son Gohan in the process. Goku, Kami, Piccolo, and Krillin unite to rescue Gohan and save the world from being sucked into a dead zone.

Plot: rescue, martial arts, husband wife relationship, fight, immortality, kidnapping, wish, alien, ...

Cast

Sebastian Stan

Jeremy Strong

Martin Donovan

Maria Bakalova

The Apprentice (2024)

6.8 988 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

Style: absurd

Plot: new york city, rape, corruption, aids, funeral, politics, blackmail, biography, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Cast

Dan Stevens

Christopher Plummer

Jonathan Pryce

Justin Edwards

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

6.8 875 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: Ireland, Canada

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Plot: london, england, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, holiday, disabled child, victorian england, debt, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Jack Quaid

Maya Erskine

Beck Bennett

Ed Begley Jr.

Plus One (2019)

6.8 417 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Longtime single friends, Ben and Alice, agree to be each other's respective plus one at every wedding they're invited to, during a busy summer of wedding fever.

Plot: ex-boyfriend, relationship problems, speech, idealist, fear of commitment, wedding, summer, relationship, ...

Cast

Billy Mayo

Brandon Greenhouse

Angela Bullock

Carlon Jeffery

The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011)

6.8 385 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 30 min.

Story: A suburban father gets trapped in a one-sided incestuous relationship with his abusive son.

Style: shocking, absurd, tense

Plot: poet, family relationships, rape of a male, domestic violence, family drama, wedding, family, incest, ...

Cast

John Wayne

Maureen O'Hara

Ben Johnson

Claude Jarman Jr.

Rio Grande (1950)

6.8 397 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: U

Story: Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

Plot: settler, apache nation, usa–mexico border, black and white, father son relationship

Place: texas

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