2. ‘Finding Nemo’ (2003)

Of moving Pixar films, “Up” gets all the credit for reducing its audience to a quivering puddle of tears within the first 10 minutes. But years before, “Finding Nemo” did the same thing, opening on a clown fish couple celebrating their new home on the Great Barrier Reef and their hundreds of eggs when they are attacked by a barracuda. Father-to-be Marlin (voiced by the delightfully neurotic Albert Brooks) wakes to find his family gone, save for a single cracked egg — his son, Nemo. When Nemo later gets captured, the film turns into an exciting rescue story about a father who will stop at nothing to find his son. But it’s also the story of an overprotective father who learns you also can lose something dear by holding it too tightly.

1. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (1962)

Was there ever a character from a book so magically made real as Atticus Finch was by Gregory Peck? Peck won an Oscar for his portrait of unwavering decency as a smalltown defense attorney and widowed father of two in the Depression-era South. Good luck reading Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book and not hearing Peck’s voice intone sage fatherly advice to his tomboy daughter, Scout, as the family struggles with the repercussions of taking on a black client accused of raping a white woman. The movie, like the book, is a lot of things at once — a bildungsroman, a courtroom drama, an attack on racial injustice — but what Atticus really is defending is his kids against prejudice. And if you can keep a dry eye at the line “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passing,” well, you’re made of stronger stuff. GOING IN STYLE