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Movies: Best "family abandonment" Movies


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Bones and All(2022)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, Horror, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 418 votes)

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Cop(1988)

1h 50min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 41 votes)

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

The Goodbye Girl(1977)

PG
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 66 votes)

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Chronicle of a Boy Alone(1965)

1h 19min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.

Cardboard boxes(2009)

13min

Tere takes care of his autistic son Alex. Due work, her husband lives far away, but this weekend, he is visiting, and Tere suspects he will bring no good news.

Madame Peacock(1920)

NR
| 1h | Drama

Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane is disgusted to find her husband Robert McNaughton victimized by a tubercular cough and so banishes him and her young daughter to a sanitarium in Colorado. Years pass, finding Jane still estranged from her family. On the opening night of her new play, Jane finds herself upstaged and outperformed by Gloria Cromwell, a rising young actress, who, unknown to Jane, is her abandoned daughter. Returning home, Jane is haunted by visions of her husband and child and begins to sob. Looking up from her pillow, she is startled to see her husband with Gloria.

Directed by Ray C. Smallwood - With Alla Nazimova, George Probert

Tango(1936)

1h 6min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.

Midnights, Mournings, and Metropolitans(2023)

4min | Drama

One rainy midnight while bartending in her diner, a mother meets the child she gave up as an infant, but her daughter has no idea who she is.