Absent Father Movies

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 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...

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,...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

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

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

A modern Irish comedy western set in sleepy rural Sligo.

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

A non for profit student made short film following the struggle of a young man grappling with the fear that he resembles his absent father. Focusing...