Unknown father movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant unknown father movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, psychological, serious, humorous and touching films and TV shows about / with unknown father, family relations, love, parents and children, flashback, photograph, youth, life is a bitch, father daughter relationship and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in France, USA, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as unknown father: All Cats Are Grey (2014), Incendies (2010), A Kid (2016), An Impossible Love (2018), Jesus Henry Christ (2011), Despite Everything (2019), Family Heist (2017), Natural Sciences (2014), Man Who Dies to Live (2017), Scandal (2013).

List of unknown father movies

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All Cats Are Grey (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This Belgian drama is about the special bond between father and daughter. Paul is a 46 year old PI. Dorothy is almost 16 and has an identity crisis when she finds out her father isn't her biological father. Her mother won't tell her ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot: private detective, unknown father, obsession, teenage life, youth, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, paternity revealed, fatherhood, nightclub, coming of age, drug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium, brussels
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 8.3
 197K
Incendies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, heartbreaking, bleak, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, rape, civil war, incest, last will and testament, torture, pregnant from rape, unwanted pregnancy, unknown father, incest rape, twin brother and sister, psychology ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, y2k, 70s, year 1970 ...
Place: middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 2K
A Kid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: unknown father, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, fatherhood, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, family problems, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations, bare chested male, alternative medicine ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: quebec, france, canada, montreal
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An Impossible Love (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Spans the period from 1958 to the present day and tells the story of an unconditional love between a mother and her daughter which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
Style: sincere, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: love, single mother, violence against women, class differences, implied incest, mother daughter relationship, unrequited love, incest, father daughter incest, illegitimate child, father daughter relationship, office worker ...
Time: 1950s, 90s, 60s, 70s
Place: france
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Jesus Henry Christ (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, touching, funny ...
Plot: artificial insemination, youth, feminist, eccentric family, obsessive quest, sperm donor, prodigy, young heroes, family relations, parents and children, escapades, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
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Despite Everything (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Sara, Lucía, Sofía and Claudia are sisters, 4 modern women with very different personalities, who come together at their mother's funeral, after which they discover the man they've all called "dad" throughout their lives is not ...
Style: captivating, realistic, feel good, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot: sister sister relationship, stepsister stepsister relationship, search for father, sisters, unknown father, family secret, family relations, biological father, father daughter relationship, friendship, parents and children, female protagonist ...
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 5.5
 2K
Family Heist (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A high-profile burglar reconciles with his two daughters (half-siblings) to help him retaliate against his ex-partner who betrayed him.
Style: absurd, entertaining, light, humorous
Plot: brawl, father daughter relationship, unknown father, half sister, rivalry, charlatan, sister sister relationship, goofy hero, faked death, male protagonist, winter, cold ...
Time: future
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Natural Sciences (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, coming of age, search for father, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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Man Who Dies to Live (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: In the late 1970's, Jang Dal-Goo went to the Middle East and settled down in the small kingdom. He became Count Souad Fahd Ali and found success there, but he returns to South Korea to find his daughter. He appears in front his daughter Lee ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: absent father, family life, unknown father, father, father daughter relationship, lifestyle, estranged father, family problems, lifestyle change, family relations
Place: korea
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 7.5
 33
Scandal (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Detective Ha Eun-joong uncovers a shocking secret; Ha Myung-geun, the man he believed was his father, had actually kidnapped him as a child. Myung-geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as revenge against the man responsible, Jang ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: revenge, family problems, father and son, father son relationship, family relations, relationships, biological father, male female relationship, parents and children, life is a bitch, kidnapped child, child abduction ...
Place: korea
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My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: friendship, teacher, elderly, intergenerational friendship, social relations, low self esteem, unsupportive parent, misfit, self discovery, illiteracy, unknown father, single mother ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, belgium
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All About My Mother (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transvestism, lgbt, lesbian, transgender, prostitute, grief, friendship, transsexual, single mother, women, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
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 5.4
 109
Zooey & Adam (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sexy, experimental
Plot: pregnant from rape, rape, pregnancy, trying to get pregnant, pregnant wife, sex, moral dilemma, wanting a baby, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, couples, parenthood ...
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One Deadly Summer (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder ...
Style: sexy, erotic drama, anthology, social, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, sexual manipulation, rape and revenge, small town, exhibitionist, summer, rape victim, exhibitionism, traumatic childhood, erotica, breast feeding, raped woman ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 70s, 60s, year 1955 ...
Place: france, europe, south of france, provence
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Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Naples, in the Second World War, the wolf businessman Domenico Soriano meets the seventeen years old whore Filumena Marturano in a brothel during an allied bombing. Two years later, in the post-war, they meet each other by chance and begin a long ...
Style: witty, sentimental, realistic, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: dishonesty, love triangle, power relations, manipulation, couple relations, destructive relationship, love and romance, femme fatale, infidelity, love affair, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 60s
Place: italy, europe
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Twenty years after their initial war-time visit three U.S. servicemen hold a reunion at an Italian village. They all have fond memories, especially of local girl Carla. But she has been telling each of them that they are the father of her daughter ...
Style: realistic, not serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: world war two, gay, italian woman, family relations, tenderness, war veteran, unknown father, nothing goes right, single parent, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: italy
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A Son Named Erasmus (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Four friends in their 40's are summoned to Lisbon for Amalia's funeral. She's left them an unexpected legacy: a child conceived with one of them during an Erasmus study program in Portugal 20 years ago. They embark on a daring and ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot: child, kids and family, parents and children, friends, family relations, paternity revealed, fatherhood, humour, parenthood, dna, father and son, child protagonist ...
Place: lisbon portugal
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Macken - Roy's & Roger's bilservice (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
Plot: european, filling station, brotherhood, unknown father, love, father, money, brother brother relationship, gas station, blackmail, insurance fraud, businessman ...
Place: copenhagen, eastern europe
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The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 -- or so says Draifa ...
Style: metafiction, contemplative, non-linear, serious, psychological ...
Plot: fascism, investigation, opera, murder of father, unknown father, oedipus complex, countryside, white lie, small town, snitch, assassination, uncover truth ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: italy
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The Son of Joseph (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle.
Style: allegory
Plot: teenager, unknown father, revenge motive, single mother, publisher, novelist, letter, laptop, hotel, rat, taxi, teenage boy ...
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Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, China, UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a ...
Style: romantic, light, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, love triangle, motherhood, female protagonist, british, fatherhood, pregnant woman, parenthood, diary, mother daughter relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, love story ...
Place: london
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 11K
Wonderstruck (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, black and white ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: bookstore, friendship, boy, deafness, deaf, father son relationship, pursuit, chase, multiple storylines, twists and turns, sign language, world war one ...
Time: year 2017, year 1977, 1920s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, minnesota
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 6.4
 594
Grigris (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A 25 year old young man with dreams of becoming a dancer despite the fact that he's paralyzed from the waist down. His dreams are shattered when his uncle falls seriously ill. To save him, he decides to go work for petrol traffickers.
Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, haunted by the past, society, disability, unlikely criminals, family relations, job seeking, dancer, death threat, prostitute, african, black ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa
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The Child I Never Was (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, bleak, art house ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, sexual obsession, sexual predator, youth, murder, coming of age, psychopath, investigation, sexual abuse, serial killer, brutality ...
Time: year 1976, year 1962, year 1966, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Brazil Avenue (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.
Style: novela, serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera ...
Plot: revenge, love triangle, femme fatale, female protagonist, betrayal, danger, rivalry, step parent, dishonesty, hidden identity, righting the wronged, false identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 2K
Behavior (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated…
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, inspirational ...
Plot: education, boy, kids in trouble, fighting the system, life is a bitch, alcoholic mother, youth, society, hopes, rebellion, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 4K
Mermaid (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, stylized, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, solar eclipse, youth, wish come true, family relations, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, lifestyle, bittersweet, love, mermaid ...
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia, black sea
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
Style: feel good, funny, hilarious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, party, time machine, friendship, profanity, changing the past or future, casual sex, ski resort, stoner, weed, nudity, stupidity ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: usa, chernobyl
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 5.5
 2K
My Chauffeur (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male coworkers and the disbelief of her customers.
Style: grindhouse, humorous, sex comedy, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, limousine driver, dog, taxi, driver, teen angst, chauffeur, limousine, sexism, chauvinism, sexist, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s
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 5.6
 2K
Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, emotional, sensual ...
Plot: love and romance, strong sexual content, photograph, destructive relationship, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples, love triangle, photographer, husband wife relationship, one night stand, photography ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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