Movies and TvShows featuring "search-for-parent" theme.

My Own Private Idaho is a movie about two street hustlers, Mike Waters and Scott Favor, who embark on a journey of self-discovery and search for their missing parents. Mike suffers from narcolepsy and struggles with his feelings for Scott, who is the son of the influential mayor of Portland. Along their road trip, they encounter various adventures, including robbery, cocaine, and encounters with other hustlers. The movie explores themes of friendship, unrequited love, and the complexities of the male hustler lifestyle.

Daniel Deronda, a sensitive and idealistic young man, becomes entangled in a web of forbidden love, personal discovery, and cultural identity challenges in 19th century London. As he searches for his true parentage, he falls in love with a beautiful singer and gets drawn into the lives of others, each struggling with their own secrets and desires.

In post-Spanish civil war Spain, a neurosurgeon with a mysterious past uncovers family secrets and political repression while treating a young patient.

In post-World War II Berlin, an American soldier helps a little boy in search of his mother. Together, they navigate through the ruins of the city, overcoming various obstacles and encountering people with different intentions. As the soldier learns more about the boy's story, he becomes increasingly determined to reunite him with his mother, despite the challenges they face.

A woman discovers that she is an East German orphan and sets out on a journey to uncover the truth about her past. As she digs deeper, she realizes that there are dark secrets and lies surrounding her adoption, leading to a thrilling and emotional tale of identity, family, and betrayal. Inspired by a true story.

In Fresno, California, the once-wealthy Kensington family's raisin-growing empire has fallen on hard times. They are led by widowed matriarch Charlotte, who is locked in a deadly power struggle with rival raisin magnate Tyler Cane.

During the Sri Lankan Civil War, a 9-year-old girl named Amudha discovers that she is adopted and embarks on a journey to find her birth mother, all while navigating the chaos and violence of the war.

Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his father.

Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. All of them are occupied in dealing with experiences from their past but new developments make them face their inner conflicts and their friendship with each other

A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.

In 1977, young Xiao Mei leaves China for the UK to enter into an arranged marriage. Speaking no English and feeling distant from her Elvis-obsessed new husband and his stern mother, Xiao Mei dreams of reuniting with her long-lost parents and brother.

The story is about two poor boys’ search for their father through a Journey from downtown to uptown. Two hungry boys are forced to move through the events, people and unrealistic and risky places in a nightmarish way. A daily journey in search of their lost identity and worth!

Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen, with a fondness for football and sneaking beers with his buddies. He enjoys a comfortable upper-middle class life with his mother (Assumpta Serna), a successful lawyer and former feminist rabble-rouser, but has a gaping hole at the core of his identity: he has no idea who his father is. Preoccupied with the question to the point of obsession, he sets out in search of answers, and finds himself on a trail that leads to the Canary Islands.

In 1968, Elsa and Richard Marley founded an alternative-living community, named Black Bear, in the remote Northern California wilderness with the motto "Free Land for Free People." This film tells the story of that intended utopia. Through archival footage and interviews with former residents, director Jonathan Berman explores the problems and realities of communal living and the evolution of a community that endured FBI harassment, cult leadership and more.

Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.

An adopted teen who runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of putting together the missing pieces of his sense of identity. He arrives during a wave of disappearances and murders, only to encounter New England aloofness and some very eccentric relatives.

French national Stéphane Bouquet, the illegitimate son of a U.S. soldier, goes looking for the father he never met in the United States' heartland.

After being falsely accused of adultery, Mi-sun's mother leaves home and her father remarries. The new stepmother abuses Mi-sun and her younger siblings and, when their father dies, she leaves home with her new lover. Mi-sun struggles to feed her brothers and sisters but eventually begins a quest to find their mother.