Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "father-daughter-relationship", "u.s.-marine-corps"

1. Independence Day (1996)

PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell

Votes: 605,488 | Gross: $306.17M

2. Ghosted (I) (2023)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie, but then makes the shocking discovery that she's a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.

Director: Dexter Fletcher | Stars: Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Mike Moh

Votes: 62,340

3. American Sniper (2014)

R | 133 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis

Votes: 529,122 | Gross: $350.13M

4. Bound by Honor (1993)

R | 180 min | Crime, Drama

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on step-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.

Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique Castillo

Votes: 34,007 | Gross: $4.50M

5. The Last Castle (2001)

R | 131 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.

Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Burton

Votes: 85,276 | Gross: $18.21M

6. Dead Presidents (1995)

R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.

Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodríguez

Votes: 24,478 | Gross: $24.20M

7. Rules of Engagement (2000)

R | 128 min | Drama, Thriller, War

An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 50,314 | Gross: $61.34M

8. Uncommon Valor (1983)

R | 105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ten years after his son went M.I.A. in Vietnam, U.S. Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in P.O.W. camps in Laos.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Fred Ward

Votes: 11,649 | Gross: $30.50M

9. Taking Chance (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 77 min | Drama, War

Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming.

Director: Ross Katz | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Tom Aldredge, Nicholas Art, Blanche Baker

Votes: 14,772

10. Redemption Day (2021)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

When the love of his life is kidnapped and held for ransom by terrorists, a war hero Brad Paxton races against the clock to rescue her in a daring and deadly operation that pits him against the most powerful and shadowy forces.

Director: Hicham Hajji | Stars: Gary Dourdan, Serinda Swan, Andy Garcia, Brice Bexter

Votes: 24,244

11. 55 Days at Peking (1963)

Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson

Votes: 7,419

12. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)

Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.

Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Scotty Bowers, William Mann, David Kuhn, Stephen Fry

Votes: 1,797 | Gross: $0.46M

13. Stateside (2004)

R | 97 min | Drama, Music, Romance

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...

Director: Reverge Anselmo | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Rachael Leigh Cook, Agnes Bruckner, Val Kilmer

Votes: 1,993 | Gross: $0.17M

14. The Good Thief (2002)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Nick Nolte, Ralph Fiennes, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Ouassini Embarek

Votes: 10,900 | Gross: $3.52M

15. The Unbelievable Truth (1989)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal

Votes: 6,286 | Gross: $0.55M

16. Battle Cry (1955)

Approved | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War

Young Marines have adventures in love and war.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson

Votes: 2,627 | Gross: $17.44M

17. The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet... See full summary »

Directors: Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert | Stars: Leo Genn, Don Taylor, Gene Barry, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 169

18. Operation Rogue (2014)

R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, a terrorist organization has stolen materials to create a dangerous chemical bomb.

Director: Brian Clyde | Stars: Mark Dacascos, Sofia Pernas, Treat Williams, Joe Suba

Votes: 739

19. Fighting Coast Guard (1951)

Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines, John Russell

Votes: 126

20. American Son (2008)

R | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War

The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.

Director: Neil Abramson | Stars: Nick Cannon, Matt Sigloch, Dotan Baer, Justin Diedolf

Votes: 916

21. Rosie the Riveter (1944)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

In wartime 1944 in California, defense plant workers Rosalind "Rosie" Warren and her friend Vera Watson must share, on a rotating schedule, the town's last available rental room with ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jane Frazee, Frank Albertson, Barbara Jo Allen, Frank Jenks

Votes: 86

22. The Iron Major (1943)

Passed | 85 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Coach Frank Cavanaugh returns to college football after World War I, then gradually goes blind.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Warrick, Leon Ames

Votes: 276

23. Coronado (1935)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to, and is frequented by, members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego tracks, in a tent-city with ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Johnny Downs, Betty Burgess, Jack Haley, Andy Devine

Votes: 47

24. Money to Burn (1926)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Dolores Valdez, returning to her South American home, falls in love with Dan Stone, the ship's doctor. He is forced to jump overboard when he thinks he has killed a man who while protecting... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Malcolm McGregor, Dorothy Devore, Eric Mayne, Nina Romano

Votes: 18

25. Sarge Goes to College (1947)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service, requires an operation, and Navy psychiatrist Captain R. S. Handler, recommends to Marine Captain Russ Morgan and Colonel Winters that "... See full summary »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Freddie Stewart, June Preisser, Frankie Darro, Warren Mills

Votes: 39

26. Thunderbolt's Tracks (1927)

Passed | 50 min | Drama, Western

After WW I, two marines visit the family of one of their comrades in New Mexico. Learning that after the family bought a ranch the water supply was cut off, they take up the fight. To ... See full summary »

Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Jack Perrin, Starlight the Horse, Rex the Dog, Pauline Curley

27. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Daughters (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Fornell pleads with Gibbs to do whatever is necessary to take down drug dealers in the area after his daughter is hospitalized from a drug overdose; Gibbs is haunted by aspects of the case.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Mark Harmon, Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Emily Wickersham

Votes: 636

28. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Defiance (2011)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A US Marine dies in an explosion at a US embassy; he saves a foreign official and others; the NCIS provides security to the official's daughter in Washington, DC; kidnappers abduct her, and another man dies. The Gibbs gang figure it out.

Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 673

29. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Enemies Foreign (2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Vance hosts a conference of high-level members of the NCIS; he invites Eli, who accepts. Eli's presence raises security concerns; Gibbs and company take part in the protective arrangements. Threats arise, and the gang respond. [Continued.]

Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 791

30. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Enemies Domestic (2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An attack has killed one and left Vance with serious injuries; Gibbs takes charge by Vance's order. Eli reveals details about an operation 22 years old. Gibbs and the gang put the pieces together. The bad guy emerges, and justice prevails.

Director: Mark Horowitz | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 836

31. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Kill the Messenger (2014)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Navy Commander is murdered near the White House, it is learned that he was on his way to talk to the President. Gibbs and his team must determine if it is because of his relationship with the President or because of his marital problems.

Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray

Votes: 688

32. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Parental Guidance Suggested (2014)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The wife of a Navy Seal is murdered, and the NCIS team discovers she has a background in criminal forensics and recently visited a serial killer in prison seeking his help with another sociopath. Gibbs and company must figure out who it is.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray

Votes: 819

33. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Cabin Fever (2015)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Gibbs and the NCIS team continue to track down the Russian terrorist Sergei after two young Marines are killed in a bombing. Agent Fornell struggles to cope with the recent shooting death of his ex-wife at the hands of Sergei.

Director: Bethany Rooney | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray

Votes: 647

34. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Scope (2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Gibbs tries to connect with a wounded Special Ops sniper when an American couple is attacked in the same area in Iraq where the sniper's team was ambushed.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray

Votes: 862

35. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: The Tie That Binds (2016)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Ducky looks back on a choice he made 37 years ago when evidence in the murder of a Navy captain is linked to his dead mother.

Director: Arvin Brown | Stars: Mark Harmon, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 596

36. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: M.I.A. (2017)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

To honor a sailor's dying wish, the team reopens a murder case that was originally ruled an accidental death.

Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Mark Harmon, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 597

37. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Family Ties (2018)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After McGee and Torres visit the home of a high schooler who witnessed a hit and run, her parents flee with their daughter, leaving NCIS in the lurch.

Director: Rocky Carroll | Stars: Mark Harmon, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 518