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Pub. Date
[1939]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This adaption of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel stars Shirley Temple as Sara Crewe, a kindhearted rich girl left penniless after her father is reported dead in battle. She is forced to work as a maid under the harshest of conditions but continues to search for the truth about her father's disappearance. The New York Times critic Janet Maslin, in 1983, described the film as culminating in "a happy ending sure to make even grown-up...
4) Emma
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harries arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harries to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...
Pub. Date
c2014.
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...
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After their mother is murdered, two sisters are ordered to live with their estranged cowboy father.
After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody....
11) About Schmidt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about tasting 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.
12) Flicka 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After moving to her father's horse ranch from a big city, strong-willed teenager Carrie forms a bond with a wild mustang.
13) Flag day
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Vogel's father John taught her so much about love and joy, but he also happened to be the most notorious counterfeiter in US history. Directed by Sean Penn, the film stars Penn and his daughter Dylan Penn in an intimate family portrait of a young woman who struggles to rise above the wreckage of her past while reconciling the inescapable bond between a daughter and her father.
14) High life
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) Maggie
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic thriller set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic. As the nation reels from a virus that turns its victims into zombies, Wade's daughter Maggie has been infected. Now, as Maggie's condition worsens, Wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Gwyn, the daughter of Robin Hood and Marion, has the cunning of her father and the beauty of her mother, and she uses both to follow in her father's do-good footsteps.
Tells the tale of Robin Hoods' daughter Gywn, as she helps save her father and Prince Philip. Gywn helps ensure that Richard the Lionhearts' illegitimate son Philip becomes the rightful king of England.
18) The tempest
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
19) On the rocks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Laura thinks she's happily hitched, but when her husband Dean starts logging late hours at the office with a new co-worker, Laura begins to fear the worst. She turns to the one man she suspects may have insight: her charming, impulsive father Felix, who insists they investigate the situation. As the two begin prowling New York at night, careening from uptown parties to downtown hotspots, they discover at the heart of their journey lies their relationship....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Marion "Mad Dog" Casey is one of the biggest and most outrageous names in professional football. When he begins looking after his ten-year old daughter Lacy, chauffeuring her to ballet and theatre class activities she doesn't really like, Marion discovers she has a knack for soccer. He signs her up and begins his new life as a Soccer Dad, and learns the importance of being the best dad on and off the field.
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