Movies and TvShows featuring "disappearance-of-son" theme.

A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them. Santa Cruz, California. 1986. A young Adelaide goes to the beach with her parents and encounters a homeless man and a fun-house. Years later, Adelaide, now married with children, reluctantly returns to the beach, where the family encounters their doppelgängers. The doppelgängers, wearing red jumpsuits and wielding scissors, attack and torment the family. The Wilsons fight back and manage to escape. Amidst the chaos, it is revealed that Adelaide is the doppelgänger and the real Adelaide has been living among the doppelgängers. The film ends with a zoom out showing all the red doppelgängers around the United States joined together, holding hands.

In the summer of the 2010s, a Spanish woman working as a waitress in a beach restaurant experiences the disappearance of her teenage son. She goes on a desperate search for him, following clues and uncovering dark secrets in her journey.

Not Knowing is a movie about a doctor who discovers shocking family secrets when he enters into a legal battle over a contested will. As he uncovers the truth, he must confront issues of cruelty, homophobia, and dysfunctional family relationships. The plot delves into themes of identity, regret, and the lengths people will go to protect their secrets.

Sebastian (Mark Waschke) is a physics professor at the University of Jena and dealing for years with parallel universes. Meticulously, he tries to prove its existence scientifically. His college friend Oskar (Stipe Erceg), professor of theoretical physics at CERN in Geneva, smiles at Sebastian's firm belief in parallel universes and the many-worlds theory. In order to devote himself to the evidence in peace, Sebastian brings his son Nick to a summer camp, while his wife Maike (Bernadette Heerwagen) is on vacation in the mountains. At a rest stop Nick disappears out of the car and so for Sebastian a nightmare begins. Increasingly he is loosing more and more control. What really happened? It is fatal to his own theory? And who is this mysterious Schilf, which occurs abruptly in Sebastian's life?

A woman is tortured by the sudden disappearance of her only child years before. Obsessed with having another baby, she is devastated and driven to emotional crisis when discovering her new husband is infertile. Gripped by despair, the woman begins to resign herself to the bitter likelihood of never having another child. Striking up a friendship with two discarded young laborers hired to re-paint her son's now silent room, the three lost souls form a disturbing bond as the boys are led deeper into the woman's tormented world. Her family's suspicions of this unsettling new friendship sets off an irreversible series of events, leading to madness and murder as the horrors of the past collide with the sins of the present, ending in tragedy and terror.

Piravi is a gripping drama film that tells the story of a father's relentless search for his missing son. Set in a rural village, the film portrays the challenges and hardships faced by the protagonist as he navigates through the complexities of a broken system and the socio-political issues of the time. Inspired by a true story, Piravi explores themes of family relationships, friendship, and the generation gap.