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Crimebuster follows photojournalist Lou Dematteis as he journeys in search of the story of his late father, the influential Italian American crime fighter and jurist Louis B. Dematteis. This hour-long documentary moves from the mountains of Italy to the fields of California and streets of San Francisco and San Mateo County with its story of immigrants, family, estrangement, justice and healing, two generations in America.

When John was born, in 1934, his mother gifted him with three names: John, Constantin and Brâncusi. She told him his father was Constantin Brâncusi, the famous sculptor.

In a different generation that holds similarities to this one, our fathers who had dreams and hopes beyond the poverty began their youths suffering from unemployment and struggling to earn money. However, they say those times were like Utopia. They even say they are sorry for not being able to present youths today with the same experiences. They were known as 'work animals' because all they did was work, but they proudly say did that to feel accomplished at the end of the day. It was a world where the working environment was decent. However, once the jobs that they spent their whole youths on disappeared, they reminisced over them in silence. They are trying to return the favor to their families now. This documentary is the confession from our fathers who devoted everything to work.

Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the swamp-dwelling killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.

Two diametrically opposite brothers set off on a journey to reunite with their estranged father but when their motorcycle breaks down while passing through a small town, they become entangled in local life.

On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age becomes an equally sudden necessity.

When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.

A little boy wishes he could bring a Christmas tree to his father who is working as a weatherman in Antarctica.

One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.

Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.

Jenni, an orphaned semi-savant, and a street hustler named Sam, steal a car and head to Los Angeles to find Jenni's father whom she hasn't seen or heard from since she was six years old.

Shenanigans Nite Club is a 75-minute movie that accompanies the Goose’s eponymous 2021 album. Written and directed by Will Thresher and starring all five members of Goose, SNC is the story of Mick Small and his best friend Rod on a quest to discover the truth of Mick’s father’s mysterious disappearance during a night that never ends.

Vanya doesn't know his father. His mother says he works in Moscow. With friend Fedya, Vanya meets Viktor, his mother's former classmate who lived in Germany, wondering if he's Vanya's dad as they prepare to search for him in Moscow.

As Tania leaves her hometown, she must confront what her absence will mean in the search for her disappeared father.

In 2006 Santiago, 16-year-old Antonia defies her single mother in search of her absentee father, hoping to secure permission for a school trip to Argentina. Along the way, she reconnects with a half-sister she never knew and ultimately learns that her mother’s love may be the only anchor she needs.

Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with Maria, who is facing problems in the family. Maria's stepfather is the head of a gang and will go to any lengths to prevent Rui from finding his father.

Following in the footsteps of two women in search of their origins, this documentary lifts the veil on a little-known page of the post-war era: the adoption, as part of a cross-border program, of thousands of children born during the French occupation of Germany.