10 Amazing Movies To Watch With Your Dad This Father's Day

Yes, father’s day is just round the corner (18th June 2017), and there’s no better way of celebrating the time by watching spellbound and classic films. Less is more so if dads want to keep it simple, then just sit down, relax, watch Movies for Father’s Day and don’t forget to get everyone else along.

#1. Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Warning: Grab extra tissues before you start watching this film. Yes, fathers too! Because they too shed tears, perhaps secretly. This movie is a sure shot for every father-son duo to watch. One just cannot afford to miss something that’s based on such an inspirational real life story! Pursuit Of Happyness isn't a fairy tale movie. The film talks about hardships and struggles faced by the father-son duo. It portrays the lengths a father can go for his son, and it also describes the fight of being homeless (with his son) for months altogether. But there is a positive mental approach, the father (Will Smith) son (Jaden Smith) duo deals with everything that life throws at them and none of them gives up on the miseries of time.

Will Smith is playing the role of Chris Gardner who gets jailed. Several times he ate no food. He even slept in the bathrooms, got kicked from his apartment, business failures and separation. But what kept him going? His son and the attitude to quit never along with persistence and determination.

This film is an inspirational one where you can keep learning from every single scene. It teaches you to make no excuses for leading a happy life despite the conflicts. Definitely, amongst the must watch Movies for Father’s Day.

#2. Father of the Bride 1 & 2 (1991 and 1995)

The reason is pretty obvious to watch this film. Yes, this movie is essentially about a father looking forward to the special moments of his daughter - her wedding, but unexpectedly!

It's a classic remake of the original film released in the year 1950 starring Elizabeth Taylor and Spencer Tracy.

The perfect (for the role) Steve Martin plays the character of George Banks who is envious of her little daughter growing up and finally making a move to choose the man of her dreams. It's a comic delight to see the father deal with his insanity along with being able to relate with the fuss and wedding panic Martin goes through.

Despite managing the emotional uproar, he lets out all the instabilities and drives the family crazy. We must say, an over-protective father!

And sugary enough to provoke immediate diabetes, the second part of the film is no surprise but definitely would give you a good laugh. What more would we want on father's day! Martin settles peacefully with accepting whatever life has planned but again deals with several other family crises. Watch yourself and indulge in the comedy.

#3. The Descendants

Getting a Tomatometer of 89% from the well-acclaimed website, Rotten Tomatoes this film portrays the unpredictable messiness of one's life and how the characters deal with it in full vigor and extraordinary grace. The Descendants is a touching film where a father (played by none other than George Clooney) tries reconnecting with his troubled teenage daughters after the mother (Shailene Woodley) falls severely ill and falls into a coma. The film finely captures the relationship between a father and daughters.

Clooney is forced to involve into the domestic affairs after a tragedy. And the film reflects how a family is damaged due to the profound selfishness of parents. But how the father regains his responsibilities and brings together his fragmented family is a lesson!

It’s about re-examining the past and embracing the future.

#4. Field of Dreams (1989)

To what extent would a man go for a getting a chance of reconciliation? Yes, the answer is right; you would do anything if it's for your father! Field of Dreams is a critically acclaimed film winning many accolades and becoming a significant movie in the history of Hollywood. This is a sentimental film being a perfect blend of emotions, family togetherness, and the game baseball. It's kind of a fairy tale where Kevin Costner (playing the character of Ray Kinsella) constructs in his cornfield, a baseball field!

Ray keeps encountering mysterious voices and keeps receiving messages from disembodied ones. The first being "If you build it, he will come," makes him sacrifice his bread-earning corn field and bring together a baseball field with the support of his wife.

And much to the surprise, he gains the ability over playing with the ghosts of several prominent baseball legends. He later realizes that his field has been divinely blessed to give another chance to those who surrendered to some or the other valuable aspects of their lives. How does this relate to father's day? It reveals Ray's father as a surprise element at the end of the story. Amongst other Best Movies to watch on Father’s Day do not forget to this one!

#5. Finding Nemo (2003)

Because sometimes we even need cartoons & animations implying the lessons can be learned from anywhere, anyhow! Finding Nemo is a spectacular film about fatherhood in a well-crafted manner.

Tomatometer gives the film 99% calling it breathtakingly lovely.

The film reveals stunning underwater ventures, maintaining a balance between humor along with heartfelt emotions.

There's an overly protective clownfish father named Marlin and his son Nemo. They separate in the Great Barrier Reef; Nemo is taken far from his home ocean and unfortunately gets dumped into a fish tank at a dentist's place. And now Marlin begins a dangerous journey to rescue his son.

#6. Taken (2008)

There's a marathon of the Taken series, but this 2008 flick highlights the love of a father for his daughter, who gets kidnapped and dad takes on a mission to get her back.

With his skill set, Liam Neeson gets into the sex trafficking ring and becomes the fuzz in the town to get his abducted daughter safely back home. The father is a retired government agent who tracks down every possible way and rescues his daughter (Maggie Grace). It’s an insane quest.

#7. October Sky

90% Tomatometer rating makes this film a must see. Being rich in sincerity and intellect, October Sky makes it an inspirational drama which is old-fashioned yet amongst the coming-of-age stories. It takes away with everyone's heart who watches it.

October Sky is a true story of Homer Hickam, who is a coal miner’s son encouraged by the first Spacecraft launch and decides to take up rocketry against his father’s will. A place where all the boys grow up only to be coal miners, Homer had a plan to be different. But later, the entire success story inspires the town to believe in miracles happening. 

#8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

The whole series of Indiana Jones movies is inarguably the daddy thing and it's amongst the Best Movies to watch with your dad. However, the Last Crusade is the perfect and iconic one. It is spellbinding and all action loving fathers would enjoy it.

Both the father and son fall into a rivalry because of a Nazi woman, but they decide to work together for achieving their goals.

And, there's even an Indiana Jones 5 coming out in the year 2020.

#9. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

Gregory Peck's this film is an ultimate classic. He embraces the role of Atticus Finch (an award winning character), a Southern lawyer, who gets helpless in hiding the harsh realities of separating from his children. Fetching 91% percent on the Tomatometer, this film won the Academy Awards for Best Actor (Gregory Peck), along with Best Adapted Screenplay and the Best Art Direction.

#10. Fly Away Home (1996)

Fetching 86% on the Tomatometer, and starring Jeff Daniels along with Anna Paquin, this movie tracks a story of one self-absorbed Dad who needs to parent his daughter after the mother passes away. It does at times become difficult in such situations.

But soon, both of them find some similarities through leading an orphaned Canadian goose, south for the winter season.

This one is definitely heartwarming entertainment movie for people of all ages.

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