The Olive Tree (2016), Other People (2016), Lies My Father Told Me (1975), The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006), Bombay (1995), Jurassic Park (1993), Manon of the Spring (1986), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Grandfather movies.
Storyline: A young woman tries to get back the family olive tree.
Plot Keywords: young girl, grandfather, son, uncle, friend, love interest, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A struggling comedy writer, fresh from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother worsens, he tries to convince everyone -- including himself -- he's doing okay.
Plot Keywords: writer, mother, father, sister, grandfather, grandmother, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: David (Jeffrey Lynas) is a young Jewish boy growing up in Montreal in the 1920s. His father, Harry (Len Birman), a self-consumed inventor who yearns for assimilation and acceptance, is not religious. His loving grandfather Zaida (Yossi Yadin) is devout, with his heart still back on the old continent. Every Sunday, as David and Zaida collect scrap metal in a horse and carriage, grandfather preaches Judaism to grandson. David must come to his own conclusions on his Jewish identity and faith.
Plot Keywords: boy, grandfather, father, mother, uncle, horse, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1970 a Jewish neighbor (Germano Haiut) takes in a Brazilian boy (Michel Joelsas) whose parents are fugitives and whose grandfather has unexpectedly died.
Plot Keywords: boy, father, grandfather, bartender, soccer player, political activist, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shekar a Hindu boy and Shaila a Muslim girl fall in love in their village.Their relationship is opposed by their families , they elope to Bombay and get married with the help of Shekar's friends.Shaila looks after the house while Shekar is a news reporter they soon have twin boys and after few their families decide to bury their past and reconcile.But the joy is short lived as Hindu and Muslim riots erupt in Bombay after demolition of Babri Masjid separating the family.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, twin, touching, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Huge advancements in scientific technology have enabled a mogul to create an island full of living dinosaurs. John Hammond has invited four individuals, along with his two grandchildren, to join him at Jurassic Park. But will everything go according to plan? A park employee attempts to steal dinosaur embryos, critical security systems are shut down and it now becomes a race for survival with dinosaurs roaming freely over the island.
Plot Keywords: paleontologist, mathematician, billionaire, grandchild, grandfather, employee, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the death of Jean Cadoret, his wife has returned to the life of opera singer and his daughter Manon has grown up and become a gorgeous lonely shepherdess. Ugolin is now a thirty year-old wealthy bachelor planting carnations. His grandfather Cesar Soubeyran presses him to get married to carry the name of their family since he is the last man alive. When Ugolin sees Manon on the fields, he falls in love with her. One day, Manon plots revenge against Ugolin and Cesar and the whole town is in despair.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: shepherdess, love interest, grandfather, schoolteacher, endearing, moving, provence, france ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Joad clan, introduced to the world in John Steinbeck's iconic novel, is looking for a better life in California. After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family -- led by just-paroled son Tom -- loads up a truck and heads West. On the road, beset by hardships, the Joads meet dozens of other families making the same trek and holding onto the same dream. Once in California, however, the Joads soon realize that the promised land isn't quite what they hoped.
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, sharecropper, priest, uncle, grandfather, grandmother, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and needs to buy one last house in a twelve block area owned by Alice's grandparent Martin Vanderhof. However, Martin is the patriarch of an anarchic and eccentric family where the members do not care for money but for having fun and making friends. When Tony proposes Alice, she states that it would be mandatory to introduce her simple and lunatic family to the snobbish Kirbys, and Tony decides to visit Alice with his parents one day before the scheduled. There is an inevitable clash of classes and lifestyles, the Kirbys spurn the Sycamores and Alice breaks with Tony, changing the lives of the Kirby family.
Plot Keywords: ingénue, boyfriend, father, mother, sister, grandfather, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Albuquerque, Sheryl Hoover brings her suicidal brother Frank to the breast of her dysfunctional and emotionally bankrupted family. Frank is homosexual, an expert in Proust. He tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as number one in the field of Proust. Sheryl's husband Richard is unsuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using nine steps to reach success, but he is actually a complete loser. Her son Dwayne has taken a vow of silence as a follower of Nietzsche and aims to be a jet pilot. Dwayne's grandfather Edwin was sent away from the institution for elders (Sunset Manor) and is addicted in heroin. When her seven-year-old daughter Olive has a chance to dispute the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, the whole family travels together in their old Volkswagen Type 2 (Kombi) in a funny journey of hope of winning the talent contest and to make a dream ...
Plot Keywords: beauty queen, child, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring?
Plot Keywords: boy, grandfather, factory director, spoiled girl, incredible, outlandish, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
Plot Keywords: substitute teacher, grandfather, principal, counselor, runaway, student, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks Pud's custody. One day Mr. Brink--an agent of Death--arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the top of an old apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.—Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: grandfather, grandchild, aunt, doctor, amusing, cheeky, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Every year, they come by the thousands. Soldiers, sailors, civilians and students. Veterans of wars gone by and guests from foreign shores. They come to march. They come to sacrifice. They come to honor and pay their respects to the greatest generation of our time. The Bataan Memorial Death March is 26.2 miles through the unforgiving high desert terrain of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range. And yet, it's more than a marathon. It's more than a road march. It's a reminder for future generations to never forget what's been lost, a model example of our core values, and a testament to the human spirit.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, grandfather, husband, gentleman, suitor, dreamy, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: orphan, playboy, father, mother, grandfather, baby, hilarious ...
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