father-child relationship

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Big guy

Derek is forced to face his sexuality and his troubled relationship with his father after he meets an injured young woman who helps him realize what is truly important in life.

Elmet

In a little copse near the east coast main line of Yorkshire, in a house that Daddy built himself, live siblings Daniel and Cathy. They roam their wood, completely free of modern living conventions. They know Daddy sometimes has to go off and do hard work to get money, but what exactly he does never enters their minds. Then one day a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, and the modern world seems like crashing in on their happy existence.
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Let's have a Daddy Day

2010
A father describes several possibilities for sharing special time with his children, but finally realizes that just playing and laughing together are fun and will be remembered warmly.

Shadow of a bull

2007
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.

Herbert's first Halloween

2017
Herbert and his father prepare for his first Halloween by making a tiger costume and practicing a big roar.

How many stars in the sky?

One night when Mama is away, Daddy and child seek a good place to count the stars in the night sky.

In the shadow of the sun

Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, an food aide worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble--and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean atrocities, and her father is arrested.

The father who had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 children

1999
After working hard to take care of his ten children, a devoted father plans to get away by himself--until he decides that something is missing.

A day with Daddy

2004
After a visit to the zoo with the children, it is Daddy who needs the nap.

Big fish

2004
William Bloom, desperate to get to know his dying father before it's too late, recreates his parent's life in a series of legends and myths based on the few facts he knows about them.

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