Deceased father movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant deceased father movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, weird and captivating films and TV shows about / with deceased father, dead father, family relations, female nudity, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male, mother daughter relationship, women and fear plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as deceased father: In His Shadow (2023), Mommy (2014), Flesh and Blood (2020), Desire (2011), Neverwas (2005), Baghead (2023), Medici (2016), Bloodline (2015), The Loved Ones (2009), The Farewell (2019).

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 4.8
 866
In His Shadow (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious
Plot: deceased father, criminal gang, killing an animal, death, brother, death of father, brother brother relationship, half brother, two brothers, brothers, brother brother conflict, hindi ...
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 8.0
 61K
Mommy (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Style: melancholic, touching, depressing, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, oedipus complex, single mother, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, troubled teen, mother son relationship, mother love, teenage boy, violence, teenager, caught masturbating ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2015, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
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Flesh and Blood (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story: Three adult siblings find their family thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother, Vivien, declares she is in love with a new man. The tension his presence creates threatens to drag the whole family towards tragedy, and perhaps crime.
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: widow, siblings, tragedy, new love, remarry, family relations, mother daughter relationship, violent, brutality, uncover truth, danger, death ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: europe
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 5.4
 9K
Desire (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cecile, a character who symbolizes desire.
Style: erotic, erotic drama, sexual, sexy, eros ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, explicit sex, sex, desire, oral sex, sex scene, looking for sex, lust, sexual fantasy, unsimulated sex, sexual promiscuity, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 6.5
 7K
Neverwas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the ...
Style: psychological, serious, visual, fairy tale, crying ...
Plot: psychiatrist, novelist, reality vs fantasy, secret, father son relationship, paranoia, mental institution, book, death of father, alternate reality, writers, writer's life ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new england
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 5.5
 1K
Baghead (2023)
Genre: Horror
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is ...
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot: supernatural horror, paranormal activity, mysticism, paranormal, creature, pub, basement, deceased father, talking to the dead, witch, death of father, shapeshifter ...
Place: berlin germany
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 7.9
 22K
Medici (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK, France
Duration: 1314 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution. Along the way, they also accrue a long list of powerful enemies.
Style: political thriller, historical drama, exciting, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: renaissance, wealth, medieval, aristocracy, husband wife relationship, european history, politics, secret, betrayal, ambition, political unrest, rise to power ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, future, ancient times, medieval times
Place: florence, venice, italy
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 7.9
 58K
Bloodline (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, wealthy family, siblings relations, haunted by the past, sibling relationship, homecoming, family life, secret, dark secret, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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 6.6
 44K
The Loved Ones (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king -- ...
Style: scary, bleak, intense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, torture, prom, kidnapping, female psychopath, psychopath, femme fatale, survival, teenage girl, obsessive love, gory, captivity ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne, united kingdom
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 7.5
 71K
The Farewell (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, atmospheric, melancholic, sad ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: lie, masseuse, grief, wedding, female protagonist, terminal illness, women, dialogue, life, grandmother granddaughter relationship, lovers, disability ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: china, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, japan
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 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychopath, revenge, blackmail, dysfunctional family, surgeon, obsession, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, recovering alcoholic, desperation, dead father ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: ancient greece, ireland
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 6.3
 141K
Lights Out (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style: dark, scary, creepy, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, ghost, supernatural, paranormal, macabre, darkness, child in peril, brother sister relationship, depression, violence, monster, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
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 6.8
 104K
Widows (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Style: suspense, tense, neo noir, bleak, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heist, girl gang, murder, widow, harlot, premarital sex, black, grief, criminal, caper, brutality, danger ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago, xian
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 8.5
 415K
Mr. Robot (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, melancholic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: hacker, computer hacker, hacking, computers and web, conspiracy, fighting the system, psychotherapy, paranoia, split personality, conspiracy theory, secret society, introvert ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, indiana
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 7.1
 159K
Locke (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his ...
Style: talky, minimal cast, neo noir, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: on the road, driving, destiny, adultery, character study, dead father, life turned upside down, family problems, night, mobile phone, storytelling, existentialism ...
Time: future, y2k, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, britain, ethiopia, usa, london
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 6.8
 245K
The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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 6.8
 66K
Draft Day (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must decide what he's willing to sacrifice on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with NFL dreams.
Style: inspirational, exciting, intense, suspense, semi serious ...
Plot: football, negotiation, american football, nfl, boss and employee, honest, power relations, overcoming, disorder, ambition, one last chance, strategy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, cleveland ohio, usa, ohio, seattle
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 7.1
 197K
Side Effects (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, clever ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, depression, murder, patient, sleepwalking, deception, twists and turns, mental institution, life turned upside down, psychiatry, doctor ...
Time: year 2013, future, 2010s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
Style: teen, emotional, witty, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, adolescence, teenager, coming of age, teen angst, teenage girl, teen romance, female protagonist, best friend, friendship, teacher, nymph ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: california, oregon
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 7.1
 185K
The Master (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style: art house, stylized, atmospheric, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: right hand man, psychiatry, drifter, scientology, religion, mentor, religions or cults, brainwashing, bare breasts, male orgasm, society, mentor protege relationship ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: usa, san francisco, phoenix arizona, philadelphia, new york ...
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 7.6
 416K
A Star is Born (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers-and falls in love with-struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer – until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the ...
Style: sad, inspirational, romantic drama, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: showbiz, singer, country music, alcoholic, fame, friendship, addiction, brother brother relationship, concert, alcoholism, drinking problem, suicide ...
Time: 2010s
Place: america, los angeles, memphis, boston, arizona
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style: road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: train, dysfunctional family, introspection, journey, on the road, suicide attempt, road trip, reconciliation, travel, magic realism, wanderlust, complex characters ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, himalaya, asia, new york
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House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an ...
Style: bad ending, depressing, emotional, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: life is a bitch, depression, tragedy, eviction, immigrant, justice, tragic event, suicide, american dream, character study, complex characters, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: san francisco, persia, bay area, usa, california
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 7.2
 100K
Wild at Heart (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Style: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: on the road, murder, surrealism, forbidden love, on the run, road trip, violence, sex scene, domineering mother, rape, haunted by the past, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new orleans, texas, austin texas, usa, california ...
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 7.3
 67K
Excalibur (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
Style: fairy tale, epic, serious, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: knight, king arthur, sword fight, arthurian legend, medieval, mythology, good versus evil, excalibur, legends and myths, wizard, legend, sword and sorcery ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 5th century, year 1981, 6th century
Place: england, europe, britain
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 4.3
 600
The Seminarian (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Seminarian is a story about Ryan, a closeted gay student in his final semester of seminary studies. Despite his school's hostile stance towards homosexuality, Ryan has two gay classmates - Gerald and Anthony - in whom he secretly confides. ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative, sentimental ...
Plot: lgbt, love and romance, religions or cults, couples, society, fall in love, school, parents and children, unfulfillment, gender, self discovery, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.6
 5K
Wildlike (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous ...
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating
Plot: nature, uncle niece relationship, runaway teen, road trip, travel, grief, camping, survival, danger, solitude, introspection, family relations ...
Place: alaska, usa
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 6.2
 587
Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, coming of age, hopes, youth, wooing, small town, road not taken, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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 8.0
 1K
Spirited (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Spirited is an Australian television drama series made for subscription television channel W that aired for two seasons, 2010 and 2011. The series stars Claudia Karvan, as dentist Suzy Darling, who walks away from a loveless marriage and into an ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, love and romance, neighbor, dentist, musician, family life, humour, women, cat, ex husband, homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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