Movies and TvShows featuring "presumed-dead-father" theme.

Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe. Roy's mission is to contact his father from Mars and try to ascertain the situation. He confronts his father and plants a nuclear payload to stop the surges caused by the malfunctioning antimatter power source. The data suggests that humans are the only intelligent life in the universe.

Smoke is a gentle drama-comedy that follows the lives of several individuals in a small town. The story revolves around a novelist, a troubled boy, a widower, and a blind woman, among others. Their lives intersect in unexpected ways, resulting in a series of whimsical and heartwarming adventures.

Left to raise her daughter alone after her husband goes MIA and is presumed dead, Danielle starts to tell her daughter bedtime stories about her father. As she tries to move on with life and accept a marriage proposal from a friend of her late husband, Danielle begins receiving signs that question her readiness to let go of her husband's memory.