This film, set in Buenos Aires, is a loving story of father, son, and grandson. Recently wed young lawyer and university teacher lives a buttoned down life that works as regular as clockwork until his kindergarten-aged son and aging father help him break out of the mold. Sweetly told "coming of age" story, for a man who sleeps with his suit on.

This thoughtful film from writer Hanif Kareishi tells a complex story of a Pakistani taxi-driver in a northern British city, whose settled life comes apart as his only son rebels against his father's secular life and takes up with a cell of young Muslim fundamentalists.

This Belgian film tells a story of grief and redemption as a teacher in a vocational training center takes on a young student, who is just released from prison, to teach him the fundamentals of carpentry.

This Russian road movie finds a down-on-their-luck father and his 11-year-old son traveling hundreds of miles on foot from Moscow to a village on the Black Sea.

Set in Scotland, this is a story of a single mother, on the run from an abusive husband, who keeps alive her nine-year-old son's wish for a loving father by writing him letters from what he's led to believe is a sailor aboard a cargo ship sailing the high seas.

This multi-award-winning film from Spain tackles the difficult subject of domestic abuse and in particular a father's abusive relationship with his twelve-year-old son.

Imagine Bergman with a touch of Hitchcock or Chabrol in this award-winning film about a father and two young sons on a fishing trip after twelve years of separation.

Iranian director Magid Magidi portrays the plight of a blind boy whose misfortune it is to have a widowed father more selfishly concerned with winning a new wife than caring for his disabled son.

A sometimes painful memoir of growing up on a huge family-corporation ranch in southern Oregon.

The author remembers his youth as a 14-year-old cowboy in 1903 on his father's ranch in northern Montana.

An unusually light-hearted Sam Pekinpah movie with Steve McQueen as a rodeo rider and Robert Preston as his ne'er-do-well father.

An aging rancher, his wayward son, and a teenage grandson. The code of the west put to the test by hoof and mouth. Based on the Larry McMurtry novel, 'Horseman, Pass By.'

Montana writer Ivan Doig's memoir of coming of age, the son of a widowed father, who was a cowboy, rancher, and sheepherder.

Beautifully written and heartfelt account of the author's adopting a Native American boy with fetal alcohol syndrome.

An Israeli scholar, married with five young sons, leaves his family after a four-month affair with a charismatic rabbi. This turn of events creates a tidal wave of ramifications that grow and converge years later at a fiftieth birthday dinner, where long buried secrets and resentments are finally revealed.

Christopher Walken plays a long-absent father returning unexpectedly at the doorstep of his grown son, grandson, and dying father (played by Michael Caine) and brings a time-ravaged, gritty presence to a road movie shot in the deserts of New Mexico.

In this film by Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, an aging father and his 12 sons travel by bus from Iran to Iraq to give a concert in celebration of freedom from Saddam Hussein.