Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "search-for-daughter"

1. Train to Busan (2016)

Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.

Director: Yeon Sang-ho | Stars: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an

Votes: 258,475 | Gross: $2.13M

2. San Andreas (2015)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.

Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Colton Haynes

Votes: 256,610 | Gross: $155.19M

3. Hardcore (1979)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama

A religious businessman from Michigan has to venture into the world of pornography in California, desperately searching for his runaway teenage daughter.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent

Votes: 13,778

4. Everybody Knows (2018)

R | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister's wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Eduard Fernández

Votes: 38,072 | Gross: $2.66M

5. The New Daughter (2009)

PG-13 | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.

Director: Luiso Berdejo | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Samantha Mathis, Gattlin Griffith

Votes: 16,120

6. Julieta (2016)

R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta

Votes: 33,908 | Gross: $1.49M

7. Pandemic (2016)

TV-MA | 91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A New York doctor travels with her team to Los Angeles to find survivors of a worldwide pandemic.

Director: John Suits | Stars: Rachel Nichols, Alfie Allen, Missi Pyle, Mekhi Phifer

Votes: 8,471

8. Mother and Child (2009)

R | 125 min | Drama, Romance

A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.

Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Alexandria M. Salling

Votes: 12,781 | Gross: $1.11M

9. Still Life (2006)

Unrated | 111 min | Drama

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han, Lizhen Ma

Votes: 7,301 | Gross: $0.07M

10. The Unseen (I) (2016)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter, including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.

Director: Geoff Redknap | Stars: Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Julia Sarah Stone, Ben Cotton

Votes: 1,450

11. London River (2009)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Mystery

Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem

Votes: 3,877 | Gross: $0.00M

12. Switched at Birth (1991)

PG | 176 min | Drama

This is the story of two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later, when one of the girls dies, tests reveal that she was not the child of the couple who raised her.

Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, John M. Jackson, Eve Gordon

Votes: 844

13. The Cut (I) (2014)

Not Rated | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra

Votes: 8,004 | Gross: $0.03M

14. El crack (1981)

M | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, it leads him to the ... See full summary »

Director: José Luis Garci | Stars: Alfredo Landa, María Casanova, Manuel Tejada, Miguel Rellán

Votes: 1,892

15. Unfinished Sky (2007)

94 min | Drama, Romance

An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel.

Director: Peter Duncan | Stars: William McInnes, Monic Hendrickx, Milo, Bille Brown

Votes: 1,310

16. Pororoca (2017)

152 min | Drama

The story follows Tudor and his family, where his life was destroyed after the disappearance their daughter at the park.

Director: Constantin Popescu | Stars: Bogdan Dumitrache, Iulia Lumânare, Constantin Dogioiu, Stefan Raus

Votes: 1,431

17. Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010 Video)

R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Charlie swindled $10 billion from investors. He manages to slip away from FBI in LA but is spotted in Tijuana. FBI's not alone. Mexican and Russian gangsters want him, too.

Director: R. Ellis Frazier | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Andy Garcia, Mario Van Peebles, Danny Pino

Votes: 1,486

18. Daughter of Deceit (1951)

78 min | Comedy, Drama

After discovering he's being cheated on by his wife María, Quintin kicks her out of the house. Upon leaving, his wife confesses that their daughter Martha is actually not Quintin'd daughter... See full summary »

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro, Fernando Soto, Rubén Rojo

Votes: 751

19. The Orator (2011)

110 min | Drama

Saili, a little person and taro farmer, has his life turned upside-down when he is denied his father's chiefly status and his family plantation is threatened.

Director: Tusi Tamasese | Stars: Fa'afiaula Sanote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia, Ioata Tanielu

Votes: 447

20. White Shadows (1924)

82 min | Drama

In Paris a wild girl becomes possessed by the soul of her twin who died to save her life.

Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson

Votes: 262

21. Le voyage du père (1966)

90 min | Drama

Quantin lives with his family in a village near the Swiss border. He is increasingly anxious that he has received no news from his eldest daughter, Marie-Louise, who went to Lyon to find work as a hairdresser.

Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Fernandel, Lilli Palmer, Laurent Terzieff, Philippe Noiret

Votes: 162

22. PX (1982)

90 min | Drama

An unlikely love triangle involving a Filipina hooker, a Filipino gun-for-hire, and an American serviceman adds fire and passion to the equally-volatile tale of crime and corruption inside ... See full summary »

Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Hilda Koronel, Phillip Salvador, Leonard Urso, Anita Linda

Votes: 18

23. Un jour mon père viendra (2012)

99 min | Comedy

Chloe is going to marry the perfect guy, but lacks the perfect father. Despite having hired an actor to play the role of her father, everything changes with the arrival of Gustave and Bernard, her "real" parents.

Director: Martin Valente | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Olivia Ruiz, Jamie Bamber

Votes: 432

24. Le protecteur (1974)

80 min | Thriller

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Director: Roger Hanin | Stars: Georges Géret, Bruno Cremer, Robert Hossein, Roger Coggio

Votes: 53

25. Don Quintín el amargao (1935)

86 min | Drama

Classic spanish film of the period from the 1950s. A chronicle about the misadventures of Don Quintin, a character with a miserable life and a lot of bad humor.

Director: Luis Marquina | Stars: Ana María Custodio, Alfonso Muñoz, Luisita Esteso, Fernando Granada

Votes: 82

26. Soul Flower Train (2013)

97 min | Comedy

Amamoto hasn't seen his daughter in years and only has an old child photograph of her. He believes she is now living somewhere in Osaka. Amamoto takes a trip to Osaka to meet his daughter. ... See full summary »

Director: Hiroshi Nishio | Stars: Mitsuru Hirata, Sayoko, Marin, Tadafumi Ando

Votes: 14

27. Jungle Gold (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Adventure

This is an edited version of the 1944 Republic serial "The Tiger Woman," released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Stars: Allan Lane, Linda Stirling, Duncan Renaldo, George J. Lewis

Votes: 10

28. Sky in December (2007 Video)

83 min | Comedy, Drama

We all need good fortunes sometimes. A Japanese man who lost track of his life searches for it with the help of a young punk and an old fortune-teller.

Director: Hiroshi Toda | Star: Shôji Yamada

Votes: 8

29. Geumgangsan-ui cheonyeo (1959)

Drama

The story of a composer who was separated from his beloved daughter. Once the composer accidentally met a beautiful girl who can sing and dance well. After many twists and turns, the composer is convinced that this girl is his daughter.

Director: Youngseob Joo | Stars: Bok-soo Kim, Won-Gyun Lee, Ye-bong Mun, Won Jun Yu

30. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2245 (2002)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Mike Reid, Barbara Windsor, Rula Lenska, James Taylor

Votes: 7

31. Route 66 (1960–1964)
Episode: Child of a Night (1964)

TV-Y7 | 50 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Tod and Linc driving through rural Georgia witness the crash of a plane and speak to the dying survivor. A man asks them to go to Savannah and find a woman he met 25 years before and had a ... See full summary »

Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Martin Milner, Glenn Corbett, Sylvia Sidney, Chester Morris

Votes: 64