Movies and TvShows featuring "leave" theme.

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. On a warm, sunny day, 10-year-old Satsuki and 4-year-old Mei Kusakabe drive with their father along a rural road towards their new home. The girls are excited about the move since it will bring them closer to their mother, who is ill in the hospital. Their house is old and falling apart, but the girls find it charming and set out to explore. They stumble upon susuwatari, or soot sprites, in the attic and befriend them. Mei falls into a hole and meets a large creature called Totoro, who becomes her friend. Satsuki and her father find Mei and offer their respects to the spirits for watching over her. The family takes a bike ride into town to visit their mother in the hospital. Mei insists on staying with Satsuki at school, and they return home together in the rain. They encounter Totoro, who they offer an umbrella to. The creature takes them on a magical ride before they return home. The next day, the girls wake up to find a giant tree from the acorns they planted. They have a picnic with Granny, who tells them that fresh vegetables will help their mother. Satsuki receives news that her mother won't be able to come home, causing her distress. Mei decides to visit her mother in the hospital and gets lost. Satsuki seeks Totoro's help to find Mei. With the assistance of Catbus, they locate Mei and bring her back home. The film ends with their mother returning home, and the spirits watching over the children as they play with friends.

A soldier, John, falls in love with Savannah, a college student, during his vacation. They continue their relationship through letters, but after the September 11 attacks, Savannah ends it with a Dear John letter. John re-enlists, but when his father falls ill, he returns home. He discovers that Savannah has married someone else but still loves him. After her husband's death, they reunite.

Wicker Park is a dramatic and mysterious thriller about a man who becomes obsessed with finding the woman he believes is his lost love, only to discover a web of deception and betrayal. The story follows multiple perspectives and features a nonlinear timeline, highlighting the protagonist's desperate search for his love and the dark secrets that unfold along the way.

The Year of Living Dangerously is a captivating drama-romance film set in Jakarta, Indonesia during the 1960s. It follows the story of a foreign correspondent and a dwarf photographer who navigate a treacherous political landscape while falling in love. As tensions rise amidst civil war and martial law, their lives become intertwined with the events surrounding the presidency and the Hare Krishna movement. Through their experiences, the film offers a social commentary on power, love, and awakening during a dangerous time in history.

In the midst of World War II, a brilliant mathematician is recruited to work at Bletchley Park, where he becomes involved in a dangerous game of espionage and betrayal.

When the daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped, bumbling detective Harry Crumb is hired to solve the case. Despite his incompetence, Harry stumbles upon a wild and dangerous adventure, uncovering a web of lies and deceit.

Rear Window is a psychological thriller that follows a wheelchair-bound photographer, L.B. Jeffries, who starts spying on his neighbors from his apartment window. As Jeffries becomes convinced that one of his neighbors has committed murder, he teams up with his girlfriend and nurse to investigate. As the tension builds, Jeffries finds himself in a dangerous situation where he must try to gather enough evidence to prove his suspicions before it's too late.

When a woman becomes stranded in the desert during a zombie apocalypse, she must fend off a relentless zombie that is determined to hunt her down. As she fights for survival, she faces various challenges and encounters darkly comedic situations.

After being released from prison, a man sets out on a journey to his rural countryside home, facing prejudice, bigotry, and violence along the way.

In the sleepy town of Sleepy Hollow, a schoolteacher finds himself in a love triangle and becomes the target of the legendary Headless Horseman.

While on leave during World War II, a soldier meets a woman on a train and they form a close bond. As they spend time together, they share their secrets and find comfort in each other's company. However, their holiday romance is complicated by their personal obligations and the impending end of the war.

Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.

The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.

A young Japanese American visiting his childhood home in Japan must choose between an idyllic vacation or staying to grieve with his estranged family.

In a small Greek town, a carpenter finds himself entangled in a drug trafficking conspiracy after being released from prison.

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.

Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, familiar with the rest in the South, pushes them to a decisive step…

It tells the story of a young female social worker who begins work at a hospital for retarded children, and discovers that some of the psychological problems attributed to these children are incorrectly diagnosed. Proving this to be the case is difficult, however, as it is generally accepted that as those who are 'profoundly retarded' cannot communicate, therefore they cannot think. In the case of Annie O'Farrell (Tina Arhondis), finding a way for her to 'talk', other than speaking or writing, finally shows that she is not only able to think, but is highly intelligent. The battle against the hospital to acknowledge this in a legal sense goes to court, as the psychiatrists try to hide their misdiagnosis.

“A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of the men spend this precious time.” - BFI.