Movies and TvShows featuring "abandonment-issues" theme.

The story of a cannibalistic serial killer named Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. the Milwaukee Monster. It explores the police incompetence and apathy that allowed Dahmer to go on a killing spree. The series dramatizes multiple instances where Dahmer was almost apprehended but ultimately let go. Despite being a cleancut guy, Dahmer repeatedly received a free pass from both cops and lenient judges when charged with crimes.

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

Shun'ichi Minami possesses good looks and does well academically in high school. Chiyomi Horikiri is a bright girl who likes dancing. They were childhood friends and also their first loves, but after Shun'ichi Minami's father disappeared they hardly talk. On a storming night, Chiyomi Horikiri has an argument with her parents over her future course and leaves home. While trying to avoid the rain, Chiyomi Horikiri wishes that she go back to her childhood. Suddenly, Chiyomi becomes 15 cm tall. Shun'ichi Minami happens to see tiny Chiyomi Horikiri. She tells him that she doesn't want anyone else to see her, and Shun'ichi Minami takes her his home.

In A Whisker Away, a teenager named Miyo transforms into a cat named Taro using a magical mask, hoping to get closer to her classmate and crush, Kento. As a cat, Miyo spends time with Kento, but soon realizes the consequences of her actions. She must decide between remaining a cat forever or finding the courage to reveal her true feelings.

Beat is a TV show that takes place in the vibrant nightlife of Berlin. It follows the story of Robert Schlag, a techno promoter who becomes entangled in the world of organized crime and secret service investigations. As he navigates through drug abuse, human trafficking, and arms dealing, he also confronts his own past as an adopted child with abandonment issues. With the help of his friends, including a drag queen and a gay couple, Robert must unravel the mysteries of the underground scene while facing danger at every turn.

Catherine, a successful doctor, suspects her husband David of infidelity. To gather evidence, she hires an escort named Chloe to seduce him. However, Catherine's desire for control quickly spirals out of control as she becomes entangled in a dangerous game.

Steven and his friends face a new threat that puts the Earth in danger. They must go on a musical adventure to save the world and prevent their future from being erased.

After a book release party, a reclusive writer struggling with abandonment issues and alcoholism becomes a celebrity when his self-help book becomes a bestseller. As he tries to navigate newfound fame, he forms unexpected relationships with a chiropractor, a receptionist, and a young boy, leading to a romantic reconciliation and a revelation about his past.

When a man is released from prison, he must navigate a dangerous world and face old enemies in order to find redemption and protect those he loves.

A mentally ill teenage girl struggles with her psychiatric illness while being treated at a hospital. She also escapes to an imaginary land where she confronts her fears and finds solace. Set in the 1950s, the film explores themes of family relationships, friendship, and the challenges faced by mentally ill individuals in society.

A woman named Daniel, living an unfulfilled life as an unappreciated housewife, receives a letter from her father who abandoned her and her mother when she was young. She decides to return to her childhood home in Massachusetts to confront him and resolves to juggle her romantic relationship, family squabbles, and her own abandonment issues.

Age Out tells the story of a young orphan who navigates the criminal world after aging out of foster care. The movie explores themes of survival, love, and redemption as the protagonist tries to find his place in society. With a backdrop of Texas landscapes and a gripping plot, Age Out takes viewers on a scenic road trip through the dark underbelly of the foster care system.

To be, or not to be a mother, that is the question. A road movie where music, sexuality and contradictions accompany the main characters on a trip through southern Spain in a '67 Corvair. Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr in order to overcome abandonment issues.

A man takes five people hostages on a supermarket.

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.

Paul is facing the hard feeling of being abandoned by the person he loves. But is his fear really justified or is it just the echo of a past wound?