Movies and TvShows featuring "surrogate-father-surrogate-son-relationship" theme.

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan, future scarers at Monsters Inc., start off as rivals at Monsters University but eventually become friends. They join a misfit fraternity and participate in the Scare Games to prove themselves. Along the way, they face challenges and learn important lessons about teamwork and friendship. This animated adventure-comedy highlights the journey of these two monsters as they work their way up in the monster world.

In the 1950s, a young Italian boy named Alberto forms an unlikely friendship with a sea creature that can transform into a human. Together, they embark on an adventure to repair a boat and deliver a letter to Alberto's pen pal. Along the way, they discover the true meaning of friendship and family.

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, fights to prove his innocence. With the help of a young African-American boy and his mentors, they work against a racist establishment to seek exoneration.

A deaf boy named Frankie lives with his single mother, Lizzie, in a small seaside town in Scotland. Lizzie invents letters from Frankie's father, whom he believes is a sailor. When a new stranger arrives in town and starts working at the local fish-and-chip shop, Frankie suspects that he may be his father and forms a bond with him. However, the truth about his father is eventually revealed, leading to a hopeful ending.

Bulletproof Monk follows the story of a Tibetan martial artist monk who becomes a guardian of a sacred scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. He teams up with a young pickpocket to prevent the scroll from falling into the hands of an evil Nazi villainess.

Set during World War II, Ivan, a 12-year-old orphan, is enlisted as a spy by the Russian military. With a burning desire for revenge, he infiltrates enemy lines and carries out covert operations. Along the way, Ivan forms a surrogate father-son relationship with a military captain, who helps him navigate the dangerous world of espionage. As Ivan's childhood memories collide with the brutality of war, he must confront the consequences of his actions.

In the midst of a civil war, a young baker's father is brutally murdered. Seeking vengeance, he forms an unlikely bond with a blind man and together they embark on a mission to track down the war criminal responsible for the atrocity. Along the way, they confront various obstacles and discover the true meaning of forgiveness and redemption.

Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he discovers who Tige's father is a rich suburbanite who doesn't even know Tige exists. Should Marvin, and can he, give up the boy he loves, and who loves him, in favor of a stranger with the right genes and bank balance?

From an Alaskan strip club, a Hawaiian island, and the streets of NYC—revelatory stories emerge about a deeper definition of love.

An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.

During the Second World War, tens of thousands of blonde, blue-eyed Polish children were snatched from their parents and given to German families. Lebensborn was part of Hitler's plan to expand the Aryan master race within the Third Reich. Eight-year old Jerzy returns home at the end of the war to a joyful reunion with his long-lost mother and grandfather. But problems arise as he is taunted by his peers and, longing for his missing father, burns with resentment for his new communist stepfather.

1) A man becomes a target after witnessing an assassination. 2) Mr. Payatta is a coldhearted professional hitman who travels the world to take out notorious bad guys. When he's forced to take in his orphaned French nephew, he leaves the boy to his estate caretaker Harry who must protect him from harm.