Movies and TvShows featuring "mother-abandons-family" theme.

Miss Marple investigates the murder of a colonel in a vicarage, uncovering secrets and false confessions along the way.

After leaving her family behind, a woman returns to her small-town Wisconsin home, causing drama and tension with her estranged family.

Chrysty walks through the desert carrying nothing and heading nowhere. She enters a very small town called Silver City. The local community of women is intrigued by the sudden arrival of an attractive stranger and they find out that Chrysty left a husband and three kids behind. One of the women, McGill, calls Chrysty's husband, West to tell him where his wife is and he comes to town.

A Texan begins a cross-country journey in hope of finding the empty loft she keeps seeing in visions.

A surrealist take on a young woman's decision to run away from from her family's secluded ranch, which she hasn't left in over a decade.