Movies and TvShows featuring "greedy-father" theme.
In 19th-century Imperial Germany, a teacher at a British boys' school changes the lives of his students by introducing them to the game of soccer, facing resistance from the upper class and their strict fathers.
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Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.
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