Absent Father Movies

A New Jersey college student running away from home finds himself travelling through the back roads of Texas with a con man who's just escaped from...

Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for the mentally and physically challenged. When Shushan suffers a heart attack,...

Two brothers live in an apartment, which they never leave. The older brother uses the image of their absent father to keep the younger brother in a...

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...

A teenager's search for his absent father through basketball collides with his reality and he must decide what legacy means and how it defines him.

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a...

An eccentric former pop singer visits her estranged half-brother and turns his life upside down when she finds a muse in his girlfriend.

Twenty years before the events in the film's story, Jean-Pierre left his wife, Louise. At that moment, Marion and Sylvie, Jean-Pierre's two children,...

On the day of her wedding, as Selena Jackson comes to terms with the long-lost love she's never quite gotten over, many of her guests, including her...

Tomás is a young man who watches his absent father repeat, with his younger brother Octavio, the same patterns and lies he once used with him....

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.

A young boy grows to adulthood believing his father was the man responsible for a murder committed during a bank robbery.

Time doesn’t wait for us. Daniel works on his book while spending time in the countryside with his mother and sister. His writing, which has...

A single mother struggles to raise her only daughter on her own.

In this film, Ayana O'Shun investigates the phenomenon of absent fathers in black communities, through her personal story and that of luminous and...

Documentary film about Tony Halme, masculinity and populism. The film follows how Tony Halme created a mythical, highly masculine freestyle wrestling...

President Choi of Dongseo Shipping is at the verge of bankruptcy because one of his ships has sunk. Right on time, a man comes to Choi and offers to...

A modern Irish comedy western set in sleepy rural Sligo.