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...

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 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...

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

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.

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...

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 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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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....

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

A modern Irish comedy western set in sleepy rural Sligo.