Father's Day Movies

One thing in this world that never goes out of stock is a father’s love. His warmth, affection, and love push us to the next sunrise. Make us feel belonged and safe. Every father is born on the same day as his first kid. The role is new to him yet he gives his best to keep his kid happy. This father’s day plan a date with him and watch any of these best father’s day movies to feel the father’s strength, love, and support.

1) Interstellar (2014)

  • Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway 
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Hulu/Sling/Vudu

Interstellar is one of the best creations of Christopher Nolan. The movie is about a father who goes on an expedition through the wormhole in search of a new home for mankind. The story revolves around the survival of a human but from the beginning of the movie all you can see is an affectionate father with his kids. The movie highlights the father-daughter relationship from start to the end. The music touches your soul. Interstellar is definitely one of the greatest father’s day movies.

2) Father Of The Bride (1991)

  • Cast: Andy Garcia, Adria Arjona
  • Language: English
  • Available on: HBO Max

This movie is the remake of the 1950s ‘Father Of The Bride’ movie. The movie is about an overprotective father and how he panics about giving away his daughter’s hand to someone he cannot trust completely. During the wedding of his daughter Annie, George Banks faces unexpected conflicts. Most of them were because of his overprotectiveness towards his daughter. This movie is filled with laughs and smiles throughout making it one of the light-hearted movie to watch anytime.

3) Finding Nemo (2003)

  • Language: English
  • Available on: Disney Plus

Finding Nemo an animated movie by Pixar animations is about searching a little Nemo who is lost in the sea. His daddy fish ‘Marlin’ goes on an adventure across the sea to find his son but as he progresses he realizes that Nemo has gone very far to be found. The movie achieved huge success because of its great visuals and screenplay. The movie is filled with comedy and the characters are written in such a way that parents and kids feel related to many situations shown in the movie.

4) Taken (2009)

  • Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Hulu

In the taken movie, the daughter of a retired CIA agent gets kidnapped. Without knowing much detail, he wanders around the clues to find his daughter. Along with his daughter, three more girls are kidnapped by human traffickers. Initially Taken was released in France and later in the US achieving a huge success. Taken is one of the top suggested movies for the father’s day watchlist.

5) Piku (2015)

  • Cast: Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan
  • Language: Hindi
  • Available on: Netflix

Piku is an Indian movie that revolves around a daughter and her father. The dad in this movie is the legendary Amitabh Bachchan who fills the character of an aging person who sees the world in his own way. People get irked by his behavior and his daughter is no exception. Piku is a quirky tale of a strong-minded independent daughter and her hypochondriac father.

6) Fathers and Daughters (2015)

  • Cast: Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Peacock TV

Fathers and Daughters is another movie highly recomonded for this father’s day. Jake Davis is a Pulitzer-winning writer but the loss of his wife causes Jake’s mental breakdown. 25 years later, his daughter Kate gets into college to study psychology. This movie is all about love, loss, and grief hence it keeps rolling in your mind even after many days.

7) Drishyam (2013)

  • Cast: Mohan Lal, Meena
  • Language: Malayalam
  • Available on: Hulu

Drishyam is one of the must-watch Malayalam movies. Georgekutty is a happy family man living with his wife and two daughters. Their lives turn upside down when his elder daughter was harassed and filmed by the son of a police inspector. Georgekutty goes beyond his limits to protect his family and their family’s secret. Drishyam movie chronicles the extent to which a common man can go to protect his family.

8) Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)

  • Cast: Seung-ryong Ryoo, Park Shinhye, Aras Bulut İynemli
  • Language: Korean
  • Available on: Netflix

Miracle in Cell No. 7 is a Korean movie based on the real-life story of a man who was tortured and pleaded guilty to the charges of rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. He is not intelligent enough to prove his innocence. When he is jailed for the wrongful conviction, he gets to know many other inmates. Together they develop a strong bond with this innocent man and helps him to see his daughter inside the prison.

9) War Of The Worlds (2005)

  • Cast: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Netflix

War Of The Worlds is a Tom Cruise science fiction movie based on a novel by H. G. Wells. When Ray Ferrier gets to spend time with his children on a weekend, strange events occur with lightning striking around the area. Ray has to protect his children from this alien invasion. The differences between father and kids at the beginning of the movie will diminish when they belong to the same team.

10) Definitely, Maybe

  • Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Hulu

In the Definitely, Maybe movie, a father narrates his love story to his daughter and explains to her why he ended up in divorce from her mom. This movie is a recollection of beautiful memories that showcases how we let go of valuable things so easily in life. The conversation between dad and daughter leaves a mark in your heart.

11) Abhiyum Naanum (2008)

  • Cast: Prakash Raj, Trisha
  • Language: Tamil
  • Available on: Amazon Prime Video

Abhiyum Naanum is a heart-touching movie that highlights the beautiful relationship between father and daughter. ‘Abhiyum Naanum’ means ‘Abhi and I’. As the title clearly states this father ‘Raghuvarman’ has nothing in his life other than his daughter ‘Abhi’. But as she grows up Raghuvarman faces difficulty in accepting changes happening in Abhi’s life. When She decides to marry, like every father Raghuvarman goes into panic mode. This movie has been remade into Telugu and Kannada languages.

12) I am Sam (2001)

  • Cast: Sean Fenn, Dakota Fanning
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Tubi (Free)

‘I Am Sam’ is about a mentally retarded father raising his young daughter. In the movie, Sam Dawson has the mental abilities of a seven-year-old but he has to take care of his daughter who is growing exponentially. When the court takes away his daughter from him, Sam tries hard to get her back with the help of his lawyer. ‘I Am Sam’ is based on research conducted for retarded adults about raising children. This film bagged many awards including the Academy Award for Best Actor to Sean Penn.

13) Maggie (2015)

  • Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin 
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Roku Channel (Premium)

Maggie movie is about a father who fights to save her daughter from a deadly virus. The movie begins with a zombie pandemic where people are getting infected by the zombie virus because of which they are getting converted into deadly zombies. The scary part is, they smell the living flesh adn start eating them. When maggie is also infected by this virus, her father decides to save her by hook or crook.

14) What A Girl Wants (2003)

  • Cast: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Netflix

Daphne is raised by her mother Libby and grown up in NYC until she truned sixteen. After her graduation, Daphne flies to London to search her father whom she has never met. Her father has a royal family of his own and the title ‘Lord Dashwood’. This American teenager finds it difficult to adjust to the British royal family but she won’t give up. What A Girl Wants showcases how the father’s role is important in a girl’s life.

15) Pushpaka Vimana (2017)

  • Cast: Ramesh Arvind, Rachita Ram, Yuvina Parthavi
  • Language: Kannada
  • Available on: Zee5

Pushpaka Vimana is an Indian Kannada language movie that received a tremendous amount of appreciation from the viewers. Ramesh as a protagonist father will touch your heart with his profound acting. The movie is about an innocent father with disabilities convicted for the murder of his own daughter. The movie runs at a slow pace leaving a dent in your heart with every scene.

16) The Game Plan (2007)

  • Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Madison Pettis
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Disney

Joe is a successful football player living his happy bachelor lifestyle. One day when an 8 yo shows up at his door, Joe discovers that he has a daughter from a previous relationship. The new father role doesn’t suit Joe. He tries hard to be a good father but fails miserably. But his daughter slowly makes her space in his heart and everything tuns beautiful autimatically. The Game Plan movie is a fun-filled movie and a great one to watch with your family on this father’s day.

17) Juno (2007)

  • Cast: Elliot Page, Michael Cera
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Disney Plus

Juno is one of the Oscar award-winning movies. It is based on the life of a teenager who gets into unexpected pregnancy and how things start changing afterward. This movie is added to the father’s day list because this is the story of a father and mother. The feelings, tension, and tons of responsibilities that are faced by a father and mother from the time baby starts to develop in the womb are shown very accurately in the movie.

18) Father’s Day (1997)

  • Cast: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus 
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Roku Channel (Premium)

Carries asks Dale & Jack to help search her runaway teenage son Scott by telling each man that he is the father. When Dale & Jack bump into each other they discover the real intention of Carries plead. Then they work together to find Scott and find the identity of the actual father.

19) Dad (1989)

  • Cast: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson,
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Youtube (Premium)

When his mother dies, John decides to take care of his aged father Jake. Not being used to the father-son relationship, John struggles to find ways to showcase his love and care. In this process, John discovers the crumbling relationship with his own son. A bundle of three-generation emotions are packed in a single movie hence ‘Dad’ connects with every generation.

20) The Pursuit Of Happyness (2006)

  • Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Peacock TV

The Pursuit Of Happyness is a Will Smith movie in which he has taken the role of a salesman. This movie is based on the true story of Christopher Gardner. In the movie, Gardner tries hard to sell his self-invented “bone density scanner”. However, things don’t go as expected and because of this Gardner loses his wife and the apartment. He starts living on the streets with his son still trying his luck with the device he invented. The Pursuit Of Happyness is intentionally spelled wrong depicting one of the graffiti scenes that appears in the movie.

21) Big Daddy (1999)

  • Cast: Adam Sandler 
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Tubi

If you are looking for a movie that makes you laugh out loud on father’s day then choose Big Daddy from this list. In this movie, he adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend. Being a 32 yo law graduate he has a ton of money earned from a lawsuit. Now having everything in his life he thinks of ways to impress his girlfriend. Once he starts fostering the kid he realizes that the task is not easy! As the movie poster says ‘once you adopt a kid, you got to keep him.’

22) National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)

  • Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Imogene Coca
  • Language: English
  • Available on: HBO Max

The Griswold family decides to visit the Walley World theme park. As they plan their cross-country trip with the entire family, the journey seems more fun than the destination. Clark Griswold, and his wife, Ellen, take their two teenage children, Rusty and Audrey from the suburbs of Chicago all the way to sunny California. This classic movie never gets too old when it comes to entertainment.

23) Beautiful Boy (2018)

  • Cast: Steve Carell, Timothée ChalametNic
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Amazon Prime Video

Having a son who is struggling with methamphetamine addiction, this father David stands by his son through every down phase of his life. He provides his constant support through his son’s journey of relapse and recovery. This movie is a true story of journalist David Sheff and his son Nic Sheff. Beautiful Boy is one of the best picks for this father’s day.

24) The Godfather (1972)

  • Cast: StarsMarlon Brando, Al Pacino
  • Language: English
  • Available on: Amazon Prime Video

The Godfather is a classic good-old movie that revolves around a mafia father and son. The Godfather Don Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia, one day realizes that his son Michael is not interested in the family business. He reluctantly forces him to get into the mafia but Michael has his own opinions. The film has a legacy with its own trilogy of movies.

25) Onward (2020)

  • Language: English
  • Available on: Disney Plus

This cute Pixar animation movie is about elf brothers going on an adventure to bring back their father. Their journey is filled with cryptic maps, impossible obstacles, and unimaginable discoveries. As you watch them trying to find their dad, you will realize how the movie talks about the very important aspects of our life.

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