Movies: Father figure

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. He now must raise his two adolescent daughters by himself, while going through some sort of a teenage ...

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 prison....

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 harvest. But upon witnessing Tulgaa’s clumsy first attempts, Tuntuulei, a sassy 10-year-old boy, tak...

With the arrival of Lily and her two children, the new neighbors, Roy, a company employee, decides to look after 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 her late father, and the secrets he took with him to his grave....

Three fathers who are also brothers-in-law make a pact to save their daughters from their boyfriends....

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

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 become a man who wants to find out what is true in his father’s worldview. And what is not. Veikko Paak...

Maggie Yearwood moves to a new town to be near her son, Peter, who has gone deaf as the result of an accident and is now attending a special school. She moves into a small house next door to Owen Whister and soon falls in love with the cowboy, who ha...

An orphan narrates his essay “What is Family?” and how he found his answer when he met “Surfing Uncle” developing a bond like a father, uncle, grandfather and brother from the — heart....

Twelve-year-old Luuk Bos has always believed that his father is the Strongest Man in the World. His mother Dorien, who raised him on her own, used to tell him the most wonderful stories about it. During a visit to a local Strongest Man competition, h...

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 to play along, but quickly discovers his new "father" plays a bit rough....

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 policeman is hot on his trail, set on his own form of justice....

In order to rescue his father's ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Dario Aguirre is traveling back to his homeland Ecuador. What starts out as a strange debate about opening times, chips and Excel spread sheets, develops into a mov...

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

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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 takes turn when his relationship with Avinoam, the pub owner where he works, grows closer....

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 the shadow of his childhood he must reconcile with his grief and move on....

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 spoiled personality clash with their rural lifestyle. Everything goes wrong when Merima's father Fazil ...

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. Cautiously testing and expanding boundaries, Younus is playing a risky game. When the tension finally unloa...