Absent Father Movies

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of...

A man’s journey to learn the story of his estranged father, a failed hitman killed several years ago. A man's journey to face the scattered...

An ex-gunslinger returns home; shunned by townsfolk he is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman from driving his herd through their...

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...

On TJ's 18th birthday, a stranger delivers him a key from his father, last seen as he was hauled off to prison eight years earlier. With the key is...

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

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....

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

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,...

In 1970s New York, Martin (Maguire) hopes to locate his father and possibly reunite the parents who have been bitterly separated since he was born.

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

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

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

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

Little Naya’s father is always taken away from her because of his endless job. Only this time, motivated by her favorite fishing tv show, she...

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

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...

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...