Father’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to spend the weekend than watching movies with your dad which make you wanna hug him and shed tears of joy and laughter?! These top English movies on Netflix India are perfect for a Father's Day Movie Marathon with your Dad.
*Disclaimer: The movies listed in the blog are available on Netflix on a temporary basis.
This hilarious drama explores the story of Oliver (Ewan McGregor) as he recalls the honest relationship he shared with his late father (Christopher Plummer), who came out as gay at the age of 75. Often moving and funny as well, it depicts how the two of them had become close over time. Encouraged by the values that his father had taught him, Oliver hopes to maintain such a relationship with Anna.
IMBD Rating: 7.2 / 10
Running Time: 1hr 45 minutes
This Adam Sandler movie might just steal your hearts. Adam plays a carefree bachelor Sonny, and it’s only when his girlfriend tells him that she’s fed up of being with a man who can’t act like an adult that he decides to take on some real responsibilities. He adopts a boy (played by the adorable twins-Cole Sprouse and Dylan Sprouse) in order to show her that he can be the man she wants him to be, while actually growing fond of the kid.
IMBD Rating: 6.4 / 10
Running Time: 1hr 33 minutes
Follows the story of Carl (Jon Favreau), as he quits his job as a head chef after a Twitter war with one of the best food critics and starts running a food truck, which helps him in getting closer to his family and mending his relationship with his son, especially.
IMBD Rating: 7.3 / 10
Running Time: 1hr 54 minutes
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This comedy-drama which garnered many Academy Award nominations, revolves around the relationship between a father and his estranged son, and how the son gets to discover his father’s emotional side during a road trip to Nebraska.
IMBD Rating: 7.7 / 10
Running Time: 1hr 55 minutes
An oldie but a goodie, this iconic movie will never not make you fall in love with it all over again. After he’s led to believe that he was responsible for his father’s death, young Simba goes to exile and befriends Timon and Pumbaa there. In his adulthood, his father’s spirit tells him to defeat the evil usurper and reclaim the throne.
IMBD Rating: 8.5 / 10
Running Time: 1 hr 30 minutes
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This one depicts the hardships of parenthood on point with its brilliant direction. The movie elaborates on a relationship of a father and daughter after the death of her mother. The difficulties he overcomes to raise his child and how a child's mental health suffers due to her painful childhood. It's a beautiful movie depicting a complicated but hearty relationship between a father and a daughter.
IMBD Rating: 7.1 / 10
Running Time: 1 hr 55 minutes
Imagine it's the end of the Earth and you are held responsible for figuring out what the future of humanity holds. A former spaceship pilot goes on a mission through a wormhole to find inhabitable places for humanity. Using state-of-art digital effects, Christopher Nolan has made you believe in 5 dimensions through the movie. He has tried to answer questions so many us have for years about existentialism. Wormhole mouths and black holes are depicted as genuinely three-dimensional holes, while the high-energy colliding matter is vividly portrayed. So impressively does Interstellar render these phenomena that if we ever see such things close-up, reality may suffer by comparison?
IMBD Rating: 8.6 / 10
Running Time: 2 hr 50 minutes
It's a movie about a young father returns back from jail to take care of his son and restart his life as a writer, leaving back the criminal life but it seems to strikes back again making it difficult for him to overcome the hardships. The movie depicts the real beauty of a father-son relationship amidst the hardships they face due to poverty and criminal background.
IMBD Rating: 6.8 / 10
Running Time: 1 hr 27 minutes
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