Father Figure 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...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the...

Dani and Michael, two down-on-their-luck filmmakers, decide to craft and film their own independent movie despite their tumultuous lives begging them...

Alma returns to Mexico seeking the man who caused the loss of her childhood home. He is not easily found, but the road to him brings her closer to...

Binyamin moved to Tel Aviv after coming out as gay and facing the trauma following his brother death for which he feels responsible. Binyamin's life...

A feckless loner receives cryptic TV broadcasts from a mysterious deity whose teachings inspire a strange and radical holy awakening.

Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except where love is concerned, is back to square one after his wife left home....

An orphan narrates his essay “What is Family?” and how he found his answer when he met “Surfing Uncle” developing a bond like...

Bugs Bunny is sailing the South Seas when a gorilla mother, desperate for a child, hijacks his barrel and presents Bugs to her husband. Bugs decides...

After her mother's death, a former drug addict Merima is forced to move in with her grandparents to the nearby village. Her city girl attitude and...

During a debaucherous four days in Las Vegas, David reunites with his estranged father and confronts his greatest fear -- that he is destined to...

Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together...

My father from Sirius is a film about a boy who grew up believing his father is a messenger between the Earth and the outer space. Now the boy has...

Younus does not give up! Fascination is glued to the strange but familiar father figure and mixed up with a growing longing for real intimacy....

When Avtar Bhullar immigrates to British Columbia, he faces systemic racism and physical intimidation—his answer: Kushti, a traditional Indian...

Luisito, an 8-year-old boy, experiences the grief that has been denied to him when his mother decides to get rid of his late father's clothes.

When a hitman kills an innocent in a moment of panic, he descends on a religious journey of regret he has not before felt. All the while, a vengeful...

In order to rescue his father's ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Dario Aguirre is traveling back to his homeland Ecuador. What...

A young man aimlessly wanders a snowy landscape day by day longing for his life to return to what it once was, but when he comes face to face with...