Love Exposure (2008), Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998), Good Bye Lenin! (2003), Gifted (2017), Rust and Bone (2012), The Kid with a Bike (2011), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Abandoned By Father movies.
Storyline: Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest's commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
Plot Keywords: year 1979, year 1952, year 1955, year 1957, year 1958, year 1960, year 1962 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Monty is a student, and when his computer crashes, he's left with only a single paper copy of his thesis. Frightened of losing it, he immediately rushes out to photocopy it, only to stumble and drop it down a grate. Searching the basement of the building, he discovers that it has been found by Simon, a squatter. Simon makes a deal with Monty: for every day's accomodation and food that Monty gives him, he will give a page of the thesis in return.
Plot Keywords: harvard university, death of friend, terminal illness, college, thesis, father son estrangement, unlikely friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet's most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.—Anonymous B
Plot Keywords: male full frontal nudity, gay, homosexual, paris france, ballet, dancer, russian abroad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: disappointment, old man, crying teenage girl, father son relationship, mother son relationship, abandoned by father, suicide of mother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever.
Plot Keywords: murder, 1940s, year 2005, year 1944, post world war two, district attorney, bail ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wendy (Patricia Clarkson), a self-absorbed New York book critic, is shocked to reality by the sudden end of her marriage. Always dependent on her husband for driving, she must now learn to take the wheel on her own. Her instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) is a Sikh Indian who watches with alarm as his pupil falls apart at the seams. He himself is contemplating an arranged marriage with a woman he has never met. As these two lives intersect, both will change in unpredictable ways.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: abandoned by father, sister sister relationship, car radio, baseball, hallucination, urination, memory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Libby Day is a lifeless woman who survived the massacre of her family in their farmhouse in the countryside of Kansas when she was eight. She's been living on donations and lectures ever since. Thirty years ago, the police believed that a satanic cult was responsible for the murder of her mother and two sisters, and her brother Ben was convicted with her testimony in court. Today, however, an acquaintance, Lyle Wirth, invites Libby to visit "The Kill Club", where amateurs investigate famous crimes, and she finds that they believe Ben is innocent. Libby needs money and, in return, accepts to revisit the slaughter of her family and comes up to the painful revelations and the ultimate truth.
Plot Keywords: private investigator, murder of family, farm, nonlinear timeline, rural setting, satanist, flashback ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of how a boy was abandoned by his mother and how he, later, abandoned her. The year he'll be 14, the parents of Augusten Burroughs (1965- ) divorce, and his mother, who thinks of herself as a fine poet on the verge of fame, delivers him to the eccentric household of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch. During that year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens, he takes an older lover, he finds friendship with Finch's younger daughter, and he's the occasional recipient of gifts from an unlikely benefactor. Can he survive to come of age?
Plot Keywords: massachusetts, beer, marriage counselor, breaking and entering, waiter, student, head injury ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A hugely talented but socially isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
Plot Keywords: meaning of life, video surveillance, computer, telephone call, statue, black and white segues into color, defecation slur ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Against the backdrop of high school football and track, two brothers in a small Southern town face escalating problems with two different world views, straining - but ultimately strengthening - the bonds of brotherhood.
Plot Keywords: fight, usa, alabama, minister, bible, bare chested male, leg brace ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: american indian, western town, street shootout, violence, gun battle, shootout, wild west ...
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