a boy having a crush on his father while growing up

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

John is amazed as he compares current photos of himself and two of his hunky friends with a photo of his father when he was John's age. The intrigue of his own father's sexuality turns him on.

It's junior's big day... time to become a man. This shouldn't be too difficult as he's always taken after his father. Having a son who thinks just like you is the greatest joy a father can ever have. This bonding experience will have ever-lasting effects on father and son, alike.

The affection between father and son has always been a kind of emotion that is difficult to express. Whether it is father to son or son to father, emotional expressions are mostly interpreted by practical actions rather than words. When the father was a child, the father protected his son, and the son relied on the father. It was the relationship between middle-aged people and children. As the age grew, the son grew up, and the father gradually grew old. The son became rebellious and the father began to weaken. Powerless, became dependent on his son. And life also undergoes a dramatic reincarnation at this time. When the son does not yet fully understand the father, he sometimes thinks that the father is a burden, and if the father suffers from Alzheimer's at this time, he will become like a child.

A student with a crush on his teacher becomes even more frustrated when his widowed father begins going out with the woman.

A father ponders his relationship with his son.

A teen-aged daughter who idolizes her father finds it difficult to get attracted to guys of her age.

A boy starts an affair with his famous dad's young new wife - an instinctive way of victory of a confused soul over his parent's inadequacy. Ever haunting dreams about his real mother start overwhelming the boy more and more often. Unsuspecting a thing, the father keeps trying to carry out his own views on beauty upon their joint living. In vain - faith intends differently.

She tells her daughter: "When he looks at me it's like my heart skips a beat, it's like he's looking right through me, studying me. Of course I would never cheat on his father, but there is something romantic about the thrill of being admired. I mean, I wouldn't tell anybody but you, but I find myself getting dressed up for him. I don't know, so I can feel beautiful again? I mean, he's my stepson -I'm sure there's zero chance he even finds me attractive".

A young man relates how he was raised in a country with a culture different to that of his father. During a performance in a packed theatre he discovers that all he really cares about is his father’s approval and recognition.