Happy Father’s Day! (I hope you have a good one). Luckily for you these Top 10 Movie Dads are available all year round. Here’s the final Top 10, in a brands new order - including a new #1 and #2 that haven’t been listed yet. Keep in mind these Dads may not be the most typical (they’re all actually pretty unique) , but they are definitely the most dynamic and interesting to watch on the screen.

Be sure to look after the jump to see who are number 1 and 2 are!

10. The Lebowskis in The Big Lebowski

9. Elliot Hopper (Ghost Dad) in Ghost Dad

8. Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter

7. Nick Longhetti in A Woman Under the Influence

6. Jack Torrance in The Shining

5. Don Lope de Aguirre in Aguirre, Wrath of God

4. Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer

3. Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

2. Shukishi Hirayama in Tokyo Story

From one of the great fathers of cinema, Yasujiro Ozu, came the story of the Hirayama’s always breaks my heart a little bit. It’s the story of elderly parents visiting their grown up children. When they get there it seems the children have no time for their parents, they are selfish and eventually ship them off to a health spa. But there is more to this film than a plot summary could ever depict. A meditation on generational conflict and mortality, Tokyo Story may be the perfect way to spend your father’s day.

takepart to learn more about Ozu and watch the trailer below:

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1. Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather

Perhaps the ultimate father, in every sense of the word, nobody forgets Brando’s portrayal of the head Corleone. The film itself is a meditation on family and the things parents do in the name of their children. So I end the top 10 list with the below quote from The Godfather, Happy Father’s Day!

-Don Corleone: I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life - I don’t apologize - to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don’t apologize - that’s my life - but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. Well, it wasn’t enough time, Michael. It wasn’t enough time.
-Michael: We’ll get there, pop. We’ll get there.