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1. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 517,951 | Gross: $59.89M
2. Commando (1985)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A retired Special Forces colonel tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells
Votes: 174,835 | Gross: $35.10M
3. Poltergeist (1982)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 179,526 | Gross: $76.61M
4. Traffic (2000)
R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas
Votes: 219,709 | Gross: $124.12M
5. Family Switch (2023)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Family
When a chance encounter with an astrological reader causes the Walkers to wake up to a full body switch, can they unite to land a promotion, college interview, record deal, and soccer tryout?
Director: McG | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Emma Myers, Brady Noon
Votes: 25,389
6. First Daughter (2004)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The daughter of the U.S. President heads off to college where she falls for a graduate student with a secret.
Director: Forest Whitaker | Stars: Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton, Amerie
Votes: 27,290 | Gross: $9.06M
7. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie
Votes: 60,985 | Gross: $14.40M
8. Blood Father (2016)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 17-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks
Votes: 67,660
9. Mildred Pierce (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 28,648
10. A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Upon being fired, a desperate guy kidnaps a daughter of his former boss. Two angels are sent to Earth to check if love is possible in this case.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Ewan McGregor, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo
Votes: 37,186 | Gross: $4.27M
11. King of California (2007)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia.
Director: M. Cahill | Stars: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus
Votes: 23,660 | Gross: $0.26M
12. Back to the Beach (1987)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.
Director: Lyndall Hobbs | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Lori Loughlin, Tommy Hinkley
Votes: 3,395 | Gross: $13.11M
13. Max Dugan Returns (1983)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
An English teacher and struggling single mother's life is disrupted when her long-lost father, who abandoned her as a child, returns with some shady money in the hope of spending some time with her and the grandson he's never met.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Jason Robards, Marsha Mason, Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick
Votes: 3,970 | Gross: $17.61M
14. The Claim (2000)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A prospector who sold his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, tries desperately to win them back as he helps to build the Pacific Railroad with a group of pioneer friends.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Ron Anderson, Marty Antonini
Votes: 6,615 | Gross: $0.67M
15. Two on a Guillotine (1965)
Not Rated | 107 min | Mystery, Horror
The daughter of a psychotic magician must stay in his mansion for seven nights in order to inherit his fortune.
Director: William Conrad | Stars: Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, Parley Baer
Votes: 1,426
16. Eyes of an Angel (1991)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
A struggling Chicago man with mob ties and his 10-year-old daughter nurse a wounded Doberman - used for illegal dog fights - back to health. But trouble awaits.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: John Travolta, Ellie Raab, Tito Larriva, Tripoli
Votes: 1,355
17. Soldier Boyz (1995)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.
Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tyrin Turner, Jacqueline Obradors
Votes: 1,354
18. The Impossible Years (1968)
G | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The eldest daughter of a Professor of Psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: David Niven, Lola Albright, Chad Everett, Ozzie Nelson
Votes: 800
19. Scream: Legacy (2022)
65 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In this fan film set twenty-two years after Scream 3, the daughter of Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro and is terrorized by a new Ghostface killer.
Director: Zach Salazar | Stars: Jackie Luke, Anthony Hernandez, Rachel DeRouen, Michael Tula
Votes: 434
20. My Neighbor's Daughter (1998)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
A civic leader with a wife & newborn child befriends a newcomer in town & helps his daughter by offering her a baby-sitting job & by getting her into gymnastics. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair.
Director: Steven Kovacs | Stars: Sam Bottoms, Lisa Eichhorn, Yeniffer Behrens, Marco Rodríguez
Votes: 109
21. The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 3,732
22. The Remake (2016)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two actors who originally hooked up during filming in their early 20's find love can be even more complicated the second time around when reunited to star in an updated remake of their earlier film.
Director: Lynne Alana Delaney | Stars: Sally Kellerman, June Lockhart, Timothy Carhart, Robert Romanus
Votes: 99
23. Bittersweet Love (1976)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Young married couple expecting a baby suddenly discover they are half-brother and sister.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm, Robert Alda
Votes: 209
24. The Monster and the Ape (1945)
Passed | 295 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
At the Bainbridge Research Foundation, Professor Franklin Arnold displays his creation the Metalogen Man, a robot, to Professor Ernst and three other colleagues. Shortly afterward, the ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Robert Lowery, George Macready, Ralph Morgan, Carole Mathews
Votes: 105
25. The Phantom of the Air (1933)
Passed | 240 min | Action, Adventure
After inventing an anti-gravity device, scientist Thomas Edmonds and his daughter Mary attend the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio in search of a pilot to demonstrate the device and Bob Raymond, from the U.S. Border Patrol, is chosen.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Tom Tyler, Gloria Shea, LeRoy Mason, William Desmond
Votes: 78
26. Deep Valley (1947)
Passed | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A girl living with her parents on an isolated California farm falls in love with a chain-gang convict working at a nearby highway construction site, and sets out to help him when he escapes.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris, Fay Bainter
Votes: 1,067
27. Valentino Returns (1989)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
On a Saturday night, in a small 1950s Californian town, a young man, whose parents are an inch from a divorce, takes his brand new pink Cadillac for a spin to meet girls. He hooks up with the daughter of the town's radical preacher.
Director: Peter Hoffman | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Veronica Cartwright, Jenny Wright, David Packer
Votes: 99
28. Angel on the Amazon (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Romance
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett
Votes: 162
29. Cry Vengeance (1954)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Violent ex-cop Vic Barron comes to Ketchikan, Alaska seeking revenge on an old enemy.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs
Votes: 624
30. The Company Man (1998 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action
Ernest Gray is a bookstore owner who lives peacefully with his daughter. When a crew of mercenaries attacks, his real identity of an ex-CIA agent is blown. Control 5, who betrayed him ten years ago, is on his trail again.
Director: Art Camacho | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Matthias Hues, Don Stroud, Bryan Genesse
Votes: 94
31. 1 Chance 2 Dance (2014)
G | 89 min | Drama, Family, Romance
When a seventeen-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted mid-semester of her senior year, she finds herself in a small East Coast high school where her heart will be divided between two boys, ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Deyoe | Stars: Lexi Giovagnoli, Justin Ray, Rae Latt, Poonam Basu
Votes: 601
32. Special Agent (1949)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, History
Johnny Douglas investigates a train robbery, committed by brothers Paul and Edmond Devereaux, in which Lucille Peters' father was killed.
Director: William C. Thomas | Stars: William Eythe, George Reeves, Kasey Rogers, Paul Valentine
Votes: 115
33. Eso que tú me das (2020)
63 min | Documentary
A documentary film set up by a conversation between Jordi Évole and Pau Donés, twenty days before the latter's death.
Directors: Ramon Lara, Jordi Évole | Stars: Jordi Évole, Pau Donés
Votes: 463
34. Mary of the Movies (1923)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Romance
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, ... See full summary »
Director: John McDermott | Stars: Marion Mack, Florence Lee, Mary Kane, Harry Cornelli
Votes: 21
35. Women in Prison (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Wyn Cahoon, Scott Kolk, Arthur Loft, Mayo Methot
Votes: 19
36. The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935)
Approved | 229 min | Action, Adventure
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained ... See full summary »
Directors: Ford Beebe, B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Rex, Rin Tin Tin Jr., Kane Richmond, Norma Taylor
Votes: 96
37. Men in the Raw (1923)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Western
"Windy" Watkins is fond of spinning wild stories of his daring exploits, to his fellow cowhands, while around the campfire at night but is given the chance to prove he is more than talk ... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Marguerite Clayton, Sid Jordan, J. Morris Foster
38. Frankie Carle and His Orchestra (1949)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Music
In this Columbia "Thrills of Music" short, Frankie Carle and his orchestra play while vocalists Jerry Wayne and Marjorie Hughes (Carle's daughter) sing "You Can't Be True Dear" and "I Don't... See full summary »
Stars: Frankie Carle, Jerry Wayne, Marjorie Hughes, Frankie Carle's Orchestra
39. True Gold (1923)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Action, Western
Jack Daugherty is mistaken for the man who stole gold from a mine but is actually the mine owner. Laura La Plante is the sheriff's daughter who, in her father's absence, falls in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Francis J. Grandon | Stars: Jack Dougherty, Laura La Plante
40. Cody (2009)
69 min | Documentary, Biography
A young woman's story about living with paralysis and challenging the world to find a cure.
Director: Chris Schueler | Stars: Glenn Close, Brent Hannify, Douglas Kerr, Alyson Mitchel
41. Don't Be Like That (1936)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy
Jack Norton is a highly nervous husband and his wife, Muriel Evans, makes an appointment with a doctor for him. But the wife is a former nurse to the doctor and the jealous Jack suspects ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Jack Norton, Muriel Evans
42. The World Is Ours (1938)
Approved | 20 min | Short, History, News
A collaboration of Hollywood's major studios release through each studios film exchanges free to theatre exhibitors, telling the story of what motion pictures represent to any local ... See full summary »
Director: Basil Wrangell | Stars: Dorothy Peterson, Samuel S. Hinds, Anne Shirley, Johnny Walsh
43.
America First (2017– )
Episode:
Potato Trump Can't Stop Losing
(2019)
News
Nick further black-pills the audience, while discussing John McCain, Syria, the budget, and more.
Star: Nick Fuentes
44.
The Jesse Lee Peterson Show (1991– )
Trump on Hannity; Judge Hidalgo & Tacos! Elizabeth Warren to Ban Electoral College
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Director: Jesse Lee Peterson | Stars: Jesse Lee Peterson, James Hake
45.
The Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews (2003– )
Jacob Sullum on the Political Response to Coronavirus
(2020 Podcast Episode)
News
Stars: Scott Horton, Jacob Sullum
46.
Mad Men (2007–2015)
Episode:
Tomorrowland
(2010)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama
Don takes the kids to California and comes back with a surprise announcement. Meanwhile, Betty fires the kids' nanny before they move out of the old house over one questionable incident, and Peggy gets a shot at a new account.
Director: Matthew Weiner | Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
Votes: 2,824
47.
Jeff Lewis Live (2019– )
Episode:
Jeff Lewis Has Issues: Uncle Ed
(2022)
Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Shane Douglas, Alyssa Heimrich, Lauren Lake, Jeff Lewis
48.
Jeff Lewis Live (2019– )
Episode:
Jeff Lewis Wants to Be a Therapist
(2022)
Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Donna Dannenfelser, Shane Douglas, Alyssa Heimrich, Jeff Lewis
49.
Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode:
Fashion Police
(2009)
TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime
The victim has been stabbed more than thirty times, and the crime scene is awash with her blood. Near her head, police discover a distinctive button with strands of thread still attached. ... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Thomas, John Braun, Nathan Braun, Ben Castellanos
Votes: 87
50.
Church with Jesse Lee Peterson (2008– )
Spineless Christians Don't Deal with Evil
(2014 Podcast Episode)
Star: Jesse Lee Peterson