Absent Parent Movies

A soft, romantic drama that follows a queer couple preparing for one of them to reconnect with an absentee parent.

A young girl is forced to grow up when she runs into her absent father at the local bowling alley.

Reared by an abusive, pill-popping mother and an absentee playboy father, six-year-old Valentina must fend for herself. She does what she can to...

Sin and Illy have a plan: on a Greek island they want to get 'clean' on their own. But the intention of the two girls fails already on the way to the...

Tulgaa returns to his native village to care for his dying stepfather, honouring his remaining commitments by offering to lend a hand with the summer...

12 year old Carmen has to stay home during the summer while most other people are on holiday. She plays with younger children Anders and Kerstin. 20...

A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting...

A documentary that chronicles twin brothers searching for their absent father in faraway Russia. Having very few leads, the twin brothers –...

Justine is a young woman with a fierce intelligence but an equally strong appetite for self-destruction. She finds herself suffocated within a world...

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of...

The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.

A different perspective on the exile and social impact of major projects such as oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada. These large-scale projects,...

Sussie is 15, raised with her alcoholic mother and an absent father. She has lived in several foster homes. Now she gets one last chance with a new...

Despite the deep love and tenderness that exists between Franck and his older brother, the sadness and emptiness caused by his mother's absence being...

In Sydney, Australia, Jason King, a security guard and a part-time ghost hunter, has spent decades searching for his absent father. When this...

While playing at the beach with their grandmother, two children witness an Elvis-like man walk out of the sea. They believe he's the "fishman" lover...