Skip to content
Curated playlist

Films about father–son relationships

  • Return of the JediReturn of the Jedi was briefly renamed Revenge of the Jedi. Lucas reverted it after posters were printed.
  • Ran (film)Actor Tatsuya Nakadai had one take to flee a burning castle in Kurosawa's film Ran. No miniatures were used.
  • The GodfatherMarlon Brando stuffed cotton balls in his cheeks to audition for The Godfather. Paramount resisted casting him.
  • Star Wars: The Force AwakensIn early drafts of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Luke took over every scene. So he became the one being sought.
  • Michael (2026 film)Michael, a 2026 biographical film about the singer Michael Jackson, had a teaser trailer that drew 116.2 million views in its first 24 hours. Lionsgate released it on the 6th of November 2025, and 30 million of those views arrived within…
  • Frankenstein (2025 film)Frankenstein, the 2025 film directed by Guillermo del Toro, began as an act of avoidance. In 2016 del Toro confessed that part of him had for more than 25 years "chickened out of making it." He felt that finishing the film would end the…
  • The Day After TomorrowTo wreck New York in The Day After Tomorrow, artists built a 13-block digital model of Manhattan.
  • 28 Years Later28 Years Later, the 2025 film from director Danny Boyle, sends a twelve-year-old boy named Spike into a Britain that the rest of the world has sealed off. The country has been under indefinite quarantine for nearly three decades, since the…
  • Ordinary PeopleMichael J. Fox auditioned for Ordinary People and lost the role to Timothy Hutton. Hutton won an Oscar for it at age 20.
  • The Odyssey (2026 film)The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's film of Homer's ancient epic, went on sale to ticket buyers on the 17th of July 2025, exactly one year before its release. That was considered an unprecedented move for a major distributor, and audiences…

Queue