Movies and TvShows featuring "daughter-sits-on-her-fathers-lap" theme.
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth; along the way he reconnects with his estranged family.
In 19th century Europe, a wealthy American woman finds herself trapped in a web of manipulation and deceit as she navigates through relationships with her male cousins. She soon becomes entangled in a love triangle and must confront her own desires and societal expectations.
Ronia, the daughter of a robber chief, grows up in a magical forest. She befriends a boy from a rival gang and together they face challenges and adventures in the forest.
In 'The Paradine Case,' a defense lawyer is drawn into a difficult murder trial when he takes on the case of a woman accused of killing her wealthy husband. As he delves deeper into the details, he becomes entangled in a web of lies, deceit, and hidden desires.
After a long absence, a recovering alcoholic returns to his small town and must confront his past, mend broken relationships, and find redemption.
Set in India, The River tells a story of love, courage, and self-discovery. It follows the lives of characters living by the Ganges River and explores themes of first love, women's resilience, and the impact of World War II. The protagonist, a teenage girl, narrates her experiences and encounters with neighbors, a British captain, and a writer. The river serves as a backdrop for their intertwined lives, while the characters navigate their personal struggles and find solace and strength in the face of adversity.
After vanishing from her family’s lake house, 15 year-old Mary Solis returns without any memory of the traumatic events she experienced—and without part of her soul. Even while a shocking mystery surrounds her disappearance, and her disembodied soul begins a grim haunting, the Solis family’s biggest fear has yet to be faced. When it’s discovered that two little girls, the same age as Mary’s sister, Sophia, went missing on the lake the very night that Mary disappeared, the stakes are raised. Is Mary suffering from a centuries old condition known as Loss of Soul? Or, is it something more nefarious? After enlisting the help of a Shaman, the Solis family embarks on a journey to the spirit worlds, hunting for a supernatural cure.
The unsettling true story of America's first serial-killing family. A troubled doctor searches for patients swallowed by the prairie and encounters the Benders, homesteaders trapped by a life of unspeakable sin.
A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.
When a troubled young girl is adopted by a loving family, she begins to suspect that her new father may be hiding a sinister secret. As she unravels the truth, she finds herself in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
When an Englishman suspects his daughter of being involved in the criminal underworld, he goes to great lengths to protect her and uncover the truth in this thrilling drama.
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she, in turn has eyes for him.
A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for a refreshing malt beverage, then to have another and another....
George Periolat plays a dual role in this film, initially as Joseph Sayles a sickly old man who has taken his daughter, Rhoda (played by Mary Miles Minter), overseas after a quarrel with his family. She yearns to return home, but he has disowned his past. After his death, Rhoda ventures to America on her own. She nearly becomes destitute for a lack of money but happens upon some questionable fortune as she takes on the chores of Rosy Taylor after inadvertently finding an envelope with money in it. Rosy had been hired as a housekeeper (thus the money), but has passed away before actually showing up for employment.
When ten-year-old Aya is left at a kibbutz where children are housed by age instead of gender, not only does she have to get used to dealing with a lot of children, making friends and enemies, she also has to get used to sharing her room with boys... and sharing the showers with them too.
A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.
Well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Gilton live next door to a large family, the Biltons, that struggles to make ends meet. Despite their desire to be friendly, Mr. Gilton is frequently irritated by his neighbors, insisting that they stay out of his yard, and blaming them for anything that goes wrong. During the holiday season, the differences between the two families become even clearer. Mrs. Gilton wants to do something to help the Biltons, but Mr. Gilton will take a lot of convincing.
Lucia has written a letter for her father on his birthday. Standing before the whole family, she reads the letter thanking him for being such a great dad. But what she innocently describes as gestures of fatherly love have little to do with reality. Behind carefully upheld appearances lies an unspoken and terrible secret.