Abandonment movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant abandonment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out melancholic, emotional, captivating, psychological, realistic and sentimental films and TV shows about / with abandonment, family drama, betrayal, identity, small town, redemption, loss, friendship, relationships and resilience plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, South Korea, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as abandonment: The Unloved (2009), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Our Flag Means Death (2022), The Burning Plain (2008), Don't Come Back from the Moon (2017), Jaws 19 (2015), Little Orphans (2020), Steven Universe: The Movie (2019), The Abandoned (2010).
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Unloved is film that gives a child's eye view of the U.K.'s government-run care system for orphans and children in danger. Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
child care, foster child, social worker, abandonment, orphanage, isolation, life is a bitch, hopes, abusive father, youth, estranged mother, abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
Style:
thought provoking, sad, factual, melancholic, cynical ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers
Plot:
childhood, father son relationship, winnie the pooh, traumatic childhood, writers, biopic, fame, playwright, marital problem, husband wife relationship, bullying, nanny ...
Time:
year 1941, post world war one, 1930s, 20th century, future ...
Place:
england, new york, london, west end london
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI." But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, ...
Style:
feel good, witty, humorous, action comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
female agent, kidnapping, female fbi agent, female protagonist, fbi, buddy cop, rescue, law enforcement, hostage, rivalry, abandonment, undercover agent ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, nevada ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, single father, family drama, courtroom drama, legal, family relations, court ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, persia, new york state ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change ...
Style:
feel good, funny, nautical, laugh out loud, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ship, swashbuckler, pirate, captain, piracy, lgbt, midlife crisis, journey, gay couple, gay, pirate captain, life ...
Time:
18th century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
Style:
touching, sexy, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot:
teenage love, adultery, secret relationship, mother daughter reunion, caught having sex, unhappy wife, redemption, family drama, infidelity, breast cancer, abandonment, child abandonment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, portland oregon, new mexico, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, poetic
Plot:
small town, abandonment, coming of age, family drama, adolescence, loss, isolation, desolation, mysterious disappearance, grief, motherhood, slow burn ...
Time:
future
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
The beaches of the Baltic Sea are terrorized by a shark. The military manage to destroy it, but the shark returns in spectral form.
Style:
parody, underground film, psychotronic, experimental, humorous ...
Plot:
sea, found footage, creature feature, satire, military, killer shark, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, missing person, strength, blogger, creature ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
russia, kazakhstan, ukraine
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The wedding of their youngest sister, Janet, brings Gwen and Kay home to St. John’s, Newfoundland. While Janet struggles to hide her family’s dysfunction, Kay can’t help but create chaos wherever she goes and Gwen finds herself paralyzed by a ...
Style:
emotional, indie film, dark comedy
Plot:
wedding, abandonment, character study, family drama, intimate, family reunited, secrets, small town, regret, trauma, getting home, resentment ...
Place:
newfoundland
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two years after the events of "Change Your Mind", Steven (now 16 years old) and his friends are ready to enjoy the rest of their lives peacefully. However, all of that changes when a new sinister Gem arrives, armed with a giant drill that ...
Style:
entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
gem, friends, childhood, abandonment, good versus evil, heroes, extraterrestrial, magic, teamwork, superhero, trial, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of a boy from the orphanage for abandoned children who tried to find out the truth about his origins. Through the story of a boy Alen, it describes the consequences of war casualties and immense injustice that war brought most helpless, ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, tense
Plot:
abandonment, orphan, post war, trauma, orphanage, identity, injustice, loss of innocence, loss, childhood, desperation, survival ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo, bosnia, former yugoslavia, balkan
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dante Kathlego is married to Alisha Kathlego. As a result of his poor health Dante loses his job. This causes some friction between husband and wife, but Alisha still decides to travel to Melbourne to promote Dantes new novel. Dantes health ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
infidelity, relationships, family drama, abandonment, tragedy, betrayal, trauma, love affair, couple relations, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Place:
melbourne
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After abandoning her newborn child a woman goes through very difficult times and starts working in a foster house.
Style:
emotional, psychological, bleak, melancholic
Plot:
orphanage, guilt, female protagonist, abandonment, motherhood, redemption, conscience, suicide attempt, psychiatric hospital, character study, forgiveness, second chance ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story:
Remi (played by Julian Ras) is a foundling, but apart from that he's just a normal boy, who lives an ordinary life together with Betty Barbarin, the mother who found him. Untill his eleventh birthday, when a big truck stops at their door and ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, poignant, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
orphan, friendship, coming of age, abandonment, journey, lifestyle, search for mother, child, teenage protagonist, adventurer, adolescence, teenage life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus
TV show
Story:
Four young children have grown up together in an orphanage in Nicosia. Two boys and two girls. These children were not adopted, they stayed alone, and when they matured and left the Foundation, they decided to give each other what they needed most ...
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
orphanage, family drama, family secret, abandonment, social issues, social problems, slice of life, relationships, orphan, friends, best friend, family problems ...
Place:
cyprus
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, art house, period piece, tear jerker ...
Plot:
circus, innocence, child protagonist, loss, abandonment, father son relationship, alcoholism, illness, family drama, empathy, bittersweet, poverty ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1974
Place:
poetic realism
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Married for 20 years since the age of 15, Nina's husband suddenly decides to leave her.
Style:
melancholic, realistic, sensual, intense
Plot:
marital separation, midlife crisis, female protagonist, infidelity, adultery, abandonment, female sexuality, loneliness, self discovery, depression, middle aged woman, character study ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Shin Do Young is an announcer who instigates the jealously of all women around her because of her superior looks, great abilities, and great background. But Do Young has a deep, dark secret. She was actually abandoned at an orphanage when she was ...
Style:
dorama, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot:
guilt, family secret, sibling rivalry, adoption, abandonment, family drama, relationships, sisters, relationship problems, envy, life is a bitch, secret ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Ritsu was abandoned by his mother Reiko when he was little, so now he belongs in the lower social strata. One day, Ritsu gets involved in a case and his head is severely injured, so he can die at anytime. Convinced she abandoned him due to poverty, ...
Style:
tear jerker, emotional, captivating, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot:
revenge, mother son relationship, tragedy, abandonment, family drama, search for mother, social misfits, mother child relationship, social differences, mother son conflict, white trash, love and romance ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Rena Jung is a beautiful, but ambitious star chef who hosts her own cooking show. Her husband, Park Min-Joon, is the first son of a family that runs a large company. Their relationship is not so good, but they try to show other people they are still ...
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
ambition, manipulation, secrets, abandonment, cooking, chef, female protagonist, immigration, immigrant, culinary arts, relationship vs career, manipulative woman ...
Place:
korea, seoul
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512
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
TV show
Story:
Cennet was abandoned as a baby, and has struggled bravely through life, desperate for the motherly love she has missed out on. Brought up by her grandmother, Cennet has little in her life apart from her best friend. However, an accident breaks them ...
Style:
emotional, social, visually appealing, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, love triangle, girl heroine, mother, orphan, mother daughter relationship, abandonment, mother daughter conflict, family drama, female protagonist, motherhood, judgment ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
The Thorn Birds is a 2011 South Korean television series where one woman forsakes her love and family for her ambition while another woman embraces with love all that the former had left behind. Fates of a bit part actress Seo Jung-eun and a film ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, tragic
Plot:
inheritance, heir, family drama, abandonment, motherhood, sacrifice, stolen identity, family relations, relationships, pretense, female protagonist, search for mother ...
Place:
korea, seoul
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Yildiz has loved Kuzey for as long as she has known. She has seen no one but him. Families are also friendly to each other. Kuzey and Yildiz are engaged. But when Kuzey goes to Istanbul to study at university, he forgets all his words and sets sail ...
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, emotional, light, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
male female relationship, family relations, love, love and romance, betrayal, family conflict, abandonment, teenager, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, village, unfulfilled love, parents and children ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
A destitute young Yoon Mi-so was brought up in an orphanage, but eventually found good fortune in the form of Lee Min-jae, a rich heir. But what appeared to be a storybook ending with her prince turns into tragedy when Min-jae divorces her. Cast ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, romantic, tear jerker, melancholic ...
Plot:
abandonment, heartbreak, divorce, marriage, betrayal, female protagonist, romantic relationship, love and romance, relationships, love story, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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246
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.
Style:
tension, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
desert, stranded in the desert, survival, adultery, betrayal, revenge, man versus nature, isolation, struggle for survival, broken leg, love triangle, moral ambiguity ...
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666
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.
Style:
melancholic, grim, dark, period drama
Plot:
survival, forest, wilderness, isolation, brothers, family drama, resilience, family tragedy, man versus nature, traumatic childhood, abandonment, childhood memory ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Justine has never dated a woman, and Katia knows her life is hanging by a thread. But when they meet, it's love at first sight. Katia and Justine decide to confront life living a love story, and giving birth to a baby girl, Jeanne. Twelve years ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, serious, sincere, dramatic ...
Plot:
lesbian, relationships, pregnancy, brother, love, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, motherhood, family drama, love story, lgbtq, pregnant woman ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 311 min.
TV show
Story:
Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker, Ptolemy Grey is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager Robyn. When they learn about a treatment that will restore Ptolemy’s dementia-addled memories, it begins a journey toward shocking truths.
Style:
emotional, poignant, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
memory loss, memories, old age, character study, elderly man, aging, loneliness, dementia, troubled past, child custody, confronting the past, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After his owner abandons him, a stray dog named Moongchi sets off on an adventure with his fellow strays.
Style:
anime, entertaining, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
dog, friendship, animal, freedom, house, friends, buddies, betrayal, friend, marooned, abandonment, heartwarming ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Rameshan, a lecturer and part-time poet, becomes the laughing stock of the village after his wife runs away on the wedding night. When he tries to overcome these taunts and win a second chance at love, he faces an uphill legal battle and toxicity of ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, melancholic, satirical
Plot:
village life, marital crisis, shame, public humiliation, marriage, humiliation, gossip, relationships, character study, slice of life, family drama, legal battle ...
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