Fathers Day: Movies about Dads Taking Action–Prisoners (2013)

Hugh Jackman takes matters into his own hands as Keller Dover in Denis Villeneuve’s crime thriller, Prisoners, in which his young daughter and her friend are suddenly abducted.

Thrown into a tailspin investigation alongside detective Jake Gyllenhaal, the desperate father pursues leads with torture interrogation strategies to potentially ensure his child’s safety.

Dwayne Johnson, as helicopter-rescue pilot Ray Gaines, will stop at nothing to save his daughter (Alexandra Daddario) from becoming another casualty in Brad Peyton’s disaster epic, as she gets trapped in a collapsed parking garage and nearly drowns in a tsunami that follows the West Coast earthquake.

Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has always been focused on family. But the auto enthusiast turned it up a notch when he and Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) welcomed their son, Brian Marcos Toretto, whose name pays tribute to Dom’s longtime friend Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker). The new addition to the racing kin is part of the films The Fate of the Furious (2017) and F9 (2021).