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Asteroid City(2023)

PG-13
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 577 votes)

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

The War with Grandpa(2020)

PG
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 409 votes)

Peter is thrilled that his Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his Grandpa, he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war.

Detachment(2011)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 637 votes)

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Last Vegas(2013)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 969 votes)

Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.

Flowers in the Attic(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 161 votes)

After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.

Armageddon Time(2022)

R
| 1h 55min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 114 votes)

In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.

Chennai Express(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Action
3.3/5 (with 138 votes)

Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.

Everyone Says I Love You(1996)

R
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 294 votes)

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Greedy(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 53min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 106 votes)

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment(1999)

1h 35min | Drama, Action, Crime
3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.

Passport to Paris(1999)

3.1/5 (with 133 votes)

Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.

Heidi(1937)

G
| 1h 28min | Drama, Kids & Family, Music
3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.

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April and the Extraordinary World(2015)

3.5/5 (with 134 votes)

France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Directed by Franck Ekinci

Flying Home(2014)

1h 36min | Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 111 votes)

Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.

Speedy(1928)

NR
| 1h 25min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.

Directed by Ted Wilde - With Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Jack Hill, Sam Lufkin, ...

18 Again!(1988)

PG
| 1h 40min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 33 votes)

18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.

Game Over(1990)

1h 27min | Thriller, Horror, Action
3.1/5 (with 36 votes)

Thomas, a very intelligent and resourceful child, is left alone with his beloved and fragile granddad on Christmas Eve, when a psychopath dressed as Santa Claus breaks into their mansion and starts chasing them. Thomas will do whatever he can to save himself and his granddad, leaving much of his childhood innocence behind.

Father's Little Dividend(1951)

3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

In this sequel to Father of the Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, leaving her father having to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

In the Game(2018)

1h 25min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 110 votes)

A rebellious teenager must travel the country with his sick grandpa to get to his basketball game.

With Thierry Lhermitte, Rayane Bensetti, Émilie Caen, Lyes Salem, Cassiopée Mayance, Mark Grosy, ...

Misty(1961)

1h 31min | Drama, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. They soon realize they will get more than they bargained for when the Phantom has a surprise for everyone: a foal named Misty.

Directed by James B. Clark

A Cowgirl's Story(2017)

1h 38min | Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Dusty Rhodes is new at Jefferson High, and she sticks out like a... well, a cowgirl. Dusty is a real cowgirl from Texas. Her parents are in the U.S. Army: her mother a helicopter pilot and her father a Special Forces Army Ranger. At first, Dusty is an outcast, but eventually she makes friends with a group that includes Savanah, a girl whose father was killed while fighting in Iraq three years earlier. Even though Savanah is kind of Goth and Dusty is all cowgirl they have a special connection and they bond. Dusty gets the school to agree to an Equestrian Drill Team and she enlists her new city slicker friends to join the team. As Dusty and the team practice, Dusty deals with the fears that come with her mother fighting in Afghanistan.

Peace on Earth(1939)

9min | Animation, War
3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

Two baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when he comes in singing "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war. This classic animation short was an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee.

Directed by Hugh Harman

Christmas with Tucker(2014)

1h 23min | Drama, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas farm. George misses his mom, Jill, who has moved to Minnesota to deal with her grief, but there is the promise of their reunion at Christmas. George feels needed on the farm as he helps his grateful grandfather Bo with daily chores and comforts his grandmother Cora. He has also made friends with Mary Ann and became attached to Tucker, the smart and friendly dog the McCrays take in when his troubled owner Frank Thorne lands in jail.

Cries in the Night(1980)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 11 votes)

A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

The Grandfather(1998)

G
| 2h 31min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.

Like Grandpa, Like Grandson(1983)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Zika and Milan are fighting over who gets to spend more time with grandson Misha, who is five years old. Although Misha lives with his parents in Milan grandfather, Zika all ways of trying to learn Misa tavern life and his craft. A Milan his grandson sent to violin lessons and English. Come up with a number of interesting situations.

A Dog of Flanders(1959)

1h 36min | Drama, Kids & Family
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great classical painter appears shattered when his loving grandfather dies.

Directed by James B. Clark - With Donald Crisp

Mr. Kaplan(2014)

1h 38min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.

Directed by Álvaro Brechner - With Héctor Noguera, Rolf Becker, Nidia Telles, Jorge Bolani, Leonor Svarcas

Philips and the Monkey Pen(2013)

2h 20min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

The film revolves around an eight-year old called Ryan Philip and his adventures with a magical pen called the Monkey Pen.

Directed by Rojin Thomas - With Sanoop Santhosh, Jayasurya Jayan, Remya Nambeesan

Around the Bend(2004)

R
| 1h 25min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 21 votes)

A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.

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