Movies and TvShows featuring "rejected-son" theme.

Loveless is a drama film set in Moscow, Russia in the year 2012. It revolves around a couple going through a bitter divorce and their missing child. As they join a search party to find their son, they discover the deep-seated problems in their loveless marriage. The film explores themes of broken families, dysfunctional relationships, and the search for meaning in life.

Going Away (2013) tells the story of a neglected 11-year-old boy in France who embarks on a journey to find his family. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and faces his existential loneliness. The movie explores themes of family, identity, and starting a new life from scratch.

The Inheritance is a period drama set in Rome, Italy in the 1880s. It follows the story of a family torn apart by greed, manipulation, and betrayal. The crooked businessman father disowns his son, leading to a bitter conflict. As the plot unfolds, we witness the deep-seated corruption of a capitalist society, financial speculation, and the consequences of unrequited love and adultery.

My Ain Folk is a movie that tells the story of a young boy growing up in a mining town in Scotland during the 1940s. The boy experiences poverty, misery, and the absence of a father figure in his life. He faces challenges such as domestic violence, neglect, and attempts at suicide. Despite the hardships, the boy finds solace in his relationships with his grandmother and pet dog. The movie provides an intimate and autobiographical glimpse into the boy's life.

Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.

A man's dying wish is for the people in his life to participate in a 450-mile charity bicycle ride through Northern California.

In this sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Alexander's story is told in both the past and the present. Alexander's parents send him away from home for being too sensitive and not helping enough on their farm. He goes to Los Angeles in hopes of going to art school, but when he can't find a job as a minor, he turns to prostitution. After being arrested, he wants to head to Arizona to marry Dawn, but he falls into a lucrative job/relationship with a gay football star.

Five Sydney-based youngsters navigate life, experience friendship, seek love, delve into their sexuality, and face the challenges of being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.

The first-born son of a wealthy Mexican businessman, Simon is doted upon by his father, Don Andres. But as Simon grows older, he displays a fondness for dressing in women's clothing and playing with dolls, and is eventually banished from home and disinherited. He then finds work as a performer in a nightclub that his father patronizes. Not recognizing his son as a beautiful young woman, Don Andres discloses some surprising secrets of his own.

Over several years, we follow three households and their emotions in a barrio of Havana. Magalis is a nurse, rarely happy. An older man, Ignacio, professes his love for her; her father and her brother quarrel over her brother's sexual orientation; she thinks about leaving Cuba. Santo's wife Maria is expecting their first child. Tragedy strikes and Santo leaves, drowning sorrows in alcohol and crime while his son grows up in the care of an aunt wondering where dad is. Vivian and Chino are in love, passionate, but childless. The pressures of a society that demands grandchildren strain their relationship.

A short film about a closeted gay teenager coming out to a conservative Latino family.

Three Chords and a Lie tells the story of a country singer from Tennessee who returns to his hometown and faces the challenges of coming out as gay to his devout Southern Baptist family. The film explores themes of ostracism, family disapproval, and the singer's journey towards self-acceptance and pursuing his passion for music.

After coming out to his father, Taylor seeks comfort in his best friend, Jesse.