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Movies: Best "death of parent" Movies


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Dear Ex(2018)

1h 39min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

When Sanlian's ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.

Directed by Mag Hsu, Chih-Yen Hsu - With Roy Chiu, Hsieh Ying-xuan, Spark Chen, Joseph Huang

One True Thing(1998)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 7min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 56 votes)

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Restless(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 181 votes)

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

The Sandman(2017)

1h 30min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 38 votes)

A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.

It's Such a Beautiful Day(2012)

1h 2min | Drama, Animation, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 120 votes)

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.

Directed by Don Hertzfeldt

Dark Touch(2013)

1h 30min | Horror
2.5/5 (with 51 votes)

Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.

Directed by Marina de Van - With Art Parkinson

Winter Boy(2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild animal in need of taming. Between a brother settled in Paris and a mother with whom he now lives alone, Lucas will have to fight to rediscover hope and love.

War Witch(2012)

1h 30min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 41 votes)

Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.

Directed by Kim Nguyen - With Rachel Mwanza

Marionette(2020)

1h 48min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

Kikaider REBOOT(2014)

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

The movie is set in the near future, when the “ARK Project” has initiated a program to increase the quality of human life through the peaceful use of robots. Dr. Komyoji, the chief scientist on the project, has developed a process to create a robot with a figurative human “heart” through the installation of a “conscience circuit”, but his plans are violently opposed by researcher Gilbert Kanzaki. When Dr. Komyoji is killed in an apparent accident, his children Masaru and Mitsuko are targeted by mysterious forces within the ARK Project looking to gain control of the scientist’s research data. But the villains are opposed by Jiro, the android with a human conscience who fights for justice as the hero Kikaider.

Directed by Ten Shimoyama - With Jingi Irie

Godless(2015)

1h 30min | Drama
2.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Two brothers, Nate and Steven, reconnect after the death of their parents. During this time of mourning, the two brothers' unrelenting love for each other threatens a secret they had buried.

Directed by Joshua Lim

Chlorine(2015)

1h 38min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.

Directed by Lamberto Sanfelice - With Sara Serraiocco, Piera Degli Esposti, Giorgio Colangeli, Ivan Franěk
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Black Panther(2013)

1h 17min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

After many years apart, Emilie meets her brother Jakob again. She not only shares her sadness about the loss of their parents with him, but also a secret...

1-800-Hot-Nite(2022)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

When 13-year-old Tommy loses his parents to a drug raid, he turns to a phone sex operator (his fairy godmother) for help as he embarks on an urban odyssey to escape foster care with his two best friends.

Abandoned(2001)

1h 40min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He's utterly displeased by what's happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse...

Directed by Árpád Sopsits

The Girl Robinson Crusoe(1957)

1h 21min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Warden of the Dead(2007)

1h 45min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A thirteen year old kid, "the boy", lives and works in a cemetery. The cemetery is his whole life, and growing up with the dead instills in him an obsession and respect for death. His friends depend on him: An unhappy old man, a former political prisoner yearning for death, and makeup artist for deceased, a former artist who dreams of painting a masterpiece. The boy does what he can to help them. The old man attempts suicide, but upon learning the date of his death and seeing his beautiful plot chosen for him by the boy, he is able to bear his life. Upon meeting the beautiful Maria, "the boy" gives the former artist a surprise date with her. But when Maria and the artist become closer, the boy realizes that she is the daughter of the old man. The kid thinks the old man would die unhappy if he knew of her existence and so decides to hide the truth.

An Unexpected Family(1996)

1h 32min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes to court to fight for custody.

Directed by Larry Elikann

Hard Sun(2014)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make room for one.

REM(2019)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

"REM" is an Afrikaans Sci-Fi Drama about a grief-stricken father, Dehan, who becomes obsessed with the memory of his late wife, Lena, through the use of a high-tech, dream-altering device, the REM. This unhealthy obsession leads to Dehan struggling to reconnect with his young son, Erich, who survived the car accident that caused Lena's death. Dehan must decide to face and to confront his grief, reconnecting with his son, or to become so immersed in his fantasy dream-world that he loses touch with reality, and Erich, altogether.

Guttersnipes(1974)

1h 37min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

Glutnester(2015)

1h 22min | Drama

15-year-old girl tries to find her place after she moves to a new town in eastern Germany with her mother following her father's death.