My Sailor, My Love (2022) on Netflix

A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper.

Howard, a retired sea captain, refuses any help from his daughter Grace. When she hires Annie as domestic help for him, Howard unexpectedly falls in love. He gives all his affection to Annie and her family, but rejects his own daughter. My Sailor, My Love is a story about a guilt-affected daughter-father relationship. But it's also a love story between two elderly people, proving that a new beginning is never too late.

—Jimmy Karlsson and Kirsi Vikman

My Sailor My Love is a heart-warming drama on timeless love and forgiveness by Director Klaus Härö. Howard, a retired sailor and widow, lives in a house by the sea. His adult daughter Grace hires a carer for her father, a lady in her mature years, Annie. Recluse and stubborn, Howard rejects Annie's company, but eventually opens his heart and gives his last love a chance. Grace has her own crisis to unravel and finds her father's romance difficult. Her father's new love reminds her of the affection she missed, as a child and now again as an adult. Annie must face the complex father-daughter relationship, while Howard and Grace must realize their own imperfections.

Dismayed at the living conditions of her retired sea captain father, played by James Cosmo, daughter Grace, played by Catherine Walker, hires him a housekeeper. Local widow Annie, played by Bríd Brennan, cooks and cleans for ill-tempered Howard. Soon Grace and Howard form a bond that threatens to exclude Grace in her self-anointed role selfless family caretaker. The past encroaches on the present straining relationships to a breaking point and placing bonds, both old and new, at risk in this touching drama.

—KS at ClassicCoupleAcademy.com