Movies: Father son relationship

The author's personal confession. This essay film about the relationship between father and son is filmed exclusively in 16mm film in Prague, Slovenia, India, England and France. An important component of Brajnik's film narration is the musical compo...

Cutting himself off from the world, his friends and especially his father, against whom he nourishes feelings of bitterness, resentment and distrust, Thomas, a 12-year-old boy, becomes increasingly and mysteriously obsessed with swimming and diving i...

A distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared....

On furlough from his military service, Niko pays his estranged father a visit. Can old wounds heal?...

A hot summer day. The cherry-tree branches are full of ripe berries, swaying from the wind and weight. A recently retired father invites his son to help him with the cherry picking in the garden. The father is not in a rush, as he now wants to spend ...

Inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Tell-Tale Heart," this is the story of Ed, a middle-aged nervous-laughing insane man who lives in his family manor, and of his plans to murder his elderly demented father and dispose of the corpse....

The director Vít Klusák is shooting a film about his father, the well-known composer Emil Viklický, but the latter wants nothing to do with it. This creates a portrait without portraiture, since the director places a double in the role of his father,...

João is a lonely boy living in the outback. No friends, no mother, and no bond with his father, he finds a chance to overcome his fears and a possibility to fit in when a small circus arrives in town....

Dan comes out to his family, but leaves telling his dad until last. How will he react?...

Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really was. The practical arrangements for a funeral are often of a tragicomic nature....

A coming-of-age dramedy about a teenage boy who, with the help of his close friends, fights for his true love while at the same time discovering his cool neighborhood mentor is his father. Youn'G finds his way through the craziness of life, friendshi...

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Is Fer a different child or is he a child like any other in a strange world? On the way home, Fer and her father experience strange events....

Rabah is forced to take over custody of his son Cédrick. The boy has been mute since losing his mother. Despite the financial strain caused by his immigrant status and undeterred by his fraught relationship with his son, Rabah will manage to rebuild ...

After the passing of his father, Tristan decides to go on a trip to the Lake District. Whilst there, he is forced to face his grief head on and come to terms with the painful truth....

A father and son forge a lonely existence on a remote homestead at the turn of the 20th century. As they wait for the western rail road to bring hope to their fragile existence the father's troubled history finally catches up with him....

A kid asks his father a question about relationships, yet he finds the answer Herherrifying....

After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father, forcing him to contemplate his own existence....

Tension flares between Sheriff Henry Turner and his son Jason after Henry loses his job and Jason takes over. A local writer chronicles the heart warming tale....

Rudi, a freelance graphic designer, is too absorbed in his career and dies suddenly from exhaustion. When his spirit is reaped by Death, Rudi refuses to sign the documents that consent his departure from this world....