Movies like Ghost Dad
If Ghost Dad's mix of daughter, parent child relationship and loss of loved one stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Ghost Dad's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Ice Age
2002 · Directed by Chris Wedge · 81 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: parent child relationship, loss of loved one · Also comedy and family
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
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The Croods
2013 · Directed by Kirk DeMicco · 99 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: daughter, parent child relationship · Also family and comedy
The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night.
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Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
2019 · Directed by Cecilia Aranovich · 82 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: ghost · Also comedy and family
Mystery Inc. withdraws from solving crimes after botching a case. When Vincent Van Ghoul contacts the gang about an unfinished investigation from Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby's past, the gang springs into action to finish…
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Beetlejuice
1988 · Directed by Tim Burton · 92 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: ghost · Also fantasy and comedy
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
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Despicable Me
2010 · Directed by Chris Renaud · 95 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: parent child relationship · Also comedy and family
Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his…
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Hotel Transylvania
2012 · Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky · 91 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: father daughter relationship · Also comedy and family
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Directed by Tim Burton · 105 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: ghost · Also comedy and fantasy
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the…
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Hook
1991 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 142 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: daughter · Also fantasy and comedy · From the same decade (1990s)
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids.
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014 · Directed by Rob Minkoff · 92 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: parent child relationship · Also comedy and family
A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · Directed by Mark Waters · 95 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: parent child relationship · Also family and fantasy
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
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Nanny McPhee
2005 · Directed by Kirk Jones · 97 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one · Also fantasy and comedy
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill…
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Casper
1995 · Directed by Brad Silberling · 100 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: ghost · Also fantasy and comedy · From the same decade (1990s)
Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat.