Grieving father movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant grieving father movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, captivating, serious, psychological and emotional films and TV shows about / with grieving father, husband wife relationship, murder, grief, flashback, violence, death, father daughter relationship, family relations and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as grieving father: Pet Sematary (2019), The Shack (2017), Frantz (2016), The Third Day (2020), Intruder (2021), The Water Diviner (2014), Halloween Ends (2022), The Hollow One (2015), Rudderless (2014), It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

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 5.7
 98K
Pet Sematary (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located near their home. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, ...
Style: atmospheric, spooky, scary, psychological, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, supernatural, occult, evil wins, back from the dead, zombie, cat, undead, indian burial ground, pets, macabre, grieving father ...
Time: year 2019
Place: maine
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 6.3
 39K
The Shack (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story: After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. ...
Style: christian film, spiritual, philosophical, psychedelic, motivational ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christian, god, forgiveness, depression, guilt, death of daughter, a vision, jesus, missing child, hate, death of child, faith ...
Time: year 2017
Place: tibet, oregon
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 7.5
 17K
Frantz (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Style: sentimental, touching, black and white, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, guilty conscience, german soldier, death of loved one, french soldier, grave, casualty of war, war veteran, nationalism, sadness, mourning, soldier ...
Time: post world war one, year 1919, 1910s, year 1918, 90s ...
Place: germany, paris france, france
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 6.4
 11K
The Third Day (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 340 min.
TV show
Story: A unique story told over two distinct halves, "Summer" follows Sam, a man drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast where he encounters a group of islanders set on preserving their traditions at any cost. "Winter" ...
Style: suspense, mysterious, suspenseful, surreal, psychological thriller ...
Plot: mysticism, stranded on an island, folk horror, forest, strange person, macabre, grieving father, island, saving a life, festival, recurring dream, murder ...
Place: london
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 4.7
 972
Intruder (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Rebecca and Sam's lives are turned upside down when two teenagers break into their coast home.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot: police investigation, cover up, police detective, drug dealer, newspaper reporter, grieving father, journalist, husband wife relationship, seaside town, female journalist, police officer, radio announcer ...
Place: england
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The Water Diviner (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Style: touching, reflective, emotional, dramatic, compassionate ...
Plot: world war one, war, redemption, missing person, courage, family drama, great war, parents and children, family relations, escapades, military, wartime ...
Time: 1910s, year 1919, year 2014, 2010s, 1920s ...
Place: australia, gallipoli, turkey, istanbul turkey, ottoman empire
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 5.0
 70K
Halloween Ends (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Four years after the traumatic events of Halloween in 2018, the nightmare ends as Laurie Strode comes face to face with Michael Myers, once and for all.
Style: slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, sinister ...
Plot: halloween, killing spree, serial killer, homicidal maniac, babysitter, radio station, junkyard, radio dj, holiday horror, death of son, grandmother granddaughter relationship, masked killer ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: illinois
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 3.8
 414
The Hollow One (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rachel and Anna return home two years after their mother’s death, and find the town abandoned with their house left in disgusting disarray. When Rachel begins hallucinating about their dead mother and some ancient artifact, terrifying clues begin ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, scary, enigmatic
Plot: survival, uncover truth, supernatural, sisters, evil, missing person, homecoming, death of mother, grieving father, mysterious character, paranormal, escape ...
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 7.4
 19K
Rudderless (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.
Style: touching, heartbreaking, compassionate, lyrical, melancholic ...
Plot: redemption, visceral, life philosophy, loss of son, intergenerational friendship, parent child relationship, family problems, down on your luck, coping, death in the family, life turned upside down, life is a bitch ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: usa
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, small town life, angel, friendship, depression, life philosophy, snow, life changing experience, self discovery, happy ending ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1945, year 1919 ...
Place: america, new york, new york state, usa
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 7.3
 148
Samadhi (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Lakah Singh gives his life of a Dacoit and lives a happy life with his wife Champa when his son Jaswant becomes three years old, Champa becomes ill with cancer and circumstances force him to be again a Dacoit.
Plot: surrender, guilt, grieving father, anti hero, grief, bandit, accidental death, redemption, tragic event, widower, death of wife, abduction ...
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 6.9
 4K
London River (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Algeria
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 London terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: muslim, missing person, koran, terrorist bombing, terrorism, father, parents and children, family relations, bigotry, religious differences, investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
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 5.7
 34K
Love Happens (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke ...
Style: romantic, light, touching, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: florist, grief, family drama, motivational speaker, love story, happy ending, life philosophy, love and romance, unfulfillment, writer's life, love affair, dealing with death ...
Time: year 2009
Place: seattle
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 6.5
 136K
Antichrist (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, depression, cruelty, violence, fear, controversy, woods, masturbation, real sex, witchcraft, nudity, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
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 4.7
 6K
Separation (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
Style: suspense, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, grief, daughter, mother, father, girl in peril, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, killings, revenge, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.2
 9K
Joe Bell (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.
Style: melancholic, touching, talky, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: father son relationship, gay son, flash forward, high school, cheerleader, high school student, american football, gay, gay teenager, friendship, teenage love, high school football ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado, idaho, salt lake city utah, new york
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The Invisible Guest (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: "The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing ...
Plot: uncover truth, lawyer, infidelity, lie, interrogation, murder suspect, evidence, death, blackmail, moral dilemma, strong female character, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: iberian peninsula, barcelona, spain
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Collateral Beauty (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Style: twist ending, sad, sentimental, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: loss, anguish, group therapy, grief, christmas, love, death, life & death, redemption, justice, tragedy, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: china, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
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Chemistry of Death (2023)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When bodies begin turning up in the tranquil English countryside that he has recently made home, a forensic anthropologist helps local police in a race against time.
Style: bleak, captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: forensics, english countryside, murder investigation, murder, anthropologist, female corpse, investigation, killings, forest, murder mystery, corpse, crime investigation ...
Place: united kingdom, britain, scotland
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Bird Box: Barcelona (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected ...
Style: psychological horror, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: creature, apocalypse, bird, blood, blindness, security, river, terror, hiding, daughter, journey, suicide ...
Place: barcelona, spain
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 5.5
 33K
Hypnotic (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes.
Style: detective, tense, thrilling, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot: disappearance, hypnosis, missing daughter, mind control, police detective, private investigation, police investigation, forensics, uncover truth, mysterious disappearance, crime investigation, problem ...
Time: 2020s
Place: texas, austin texas, mexico
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up ...
Style: exciting, epic, saga, anamorphic, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: archaeologist, treasure hunt, indiana jones, time travel, medieval, treasure, college professor, spy, treasure hunter, supernatural, world war two, knife fight ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1939, 1950s, year 1951 ...
Place: alexandria egypt, berlin germany, alps, ancient greece, athens greece ...
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Last Action Hero (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to ...
Style: spoof, exciting, entertaining, humorous, parody ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: magic, parallel universe, heroes, chase, gunfight, breaking the fourth wall, boy, buddy, villain, fish out of water, miraculous event, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: los angeles, new york, california, usa, new york state ...
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 6.8
 3K
Box 507 (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Modesto (Antonio Resines), an honest and responsible professional, is a manager of a small bank branch in Costa del Sol. His daughter died in a forest fire which he had thought to be accidental. One day he wakes up in his bank, after being locked ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fire, bank, murder, danger, uncover truth, investigation, political corruption, gangster, cons and scams, haunted by the past, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Place: spain, morocco
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Acts of Vengeance (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.
Style: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, cult classic ...
Plot: revenge, lawyer, drinking, murder, murder investigation, homeless shelter, vengeance, stoicism, justice, funeral, witness, widower ...
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Between Worlds (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Joe—a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child—meets Julie, a spiritually gifted woman who enlists his help in a desperate effort to find the lost soul of her comatose daughter. But the spirit of ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological, scenic
Audience: adult
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, unfulfillment, ghost, life & death, grief, donation, death of wife, death of daughter, seance, love, hot and sexy ...
Place: alabama
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In the Dark Half (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, grindhouse, gloomy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: ghost, dead child, woods, supernatural, secret place, youth, dealing with death, teenage life, twists and turns, haunted by the past, suburbs, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 7.7
 279K
Wind River (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot: investigation, murder, snow, rape, winter, fbi, murder investigation, native american reservation, violence, fbi agent, native american, forest ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
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 7.3
 7K
Ajami (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Israel, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: ...
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, rough, bleak ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: missing person, israeli, society, forbidden love, life turned upside down, family feud, family in danger, family problems, police brutality, realism, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, nebraska ...
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 5.8
 364
Bass Ackwards (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: self discovery, on the road, human nature, obsessive quest, hopes, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, road trip, travel, friendship, married woman, cross country ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, seattle, new york
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