Mother Movies

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

A pregnant housewife grapples with her identity as a wife and mother as she plunges deeper into her obsession with bugs.

A mother calls for outside help when her son begins misbehaving.

In a sleepy hill town in northeast India, a lonely mother tries to reconnect with her estranged policeman son by channeling her inner detective to...

A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.

A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful...

The film is about the director’s mother, the movie actress Nina Antonova. Now she is 80. She has had hundreds of roles – big and small....

Tatjana in Motherland is a partly animated documentary essay about Slovenia and its men. It is a “documentary-tale” of how Slovenian...

After a mountaineer is killed attempting to climb a difficult mountain, his son dreams of conquering the peak that has defeated his father. But his...

A single mother of two, after being diagnosed with cancer, embarks on a journey to re-connect with her estranged birth mother.

A single mother must feed her daughter's pet.

A young boy seeks the help of an ancient fairytale creature to save his dying mother.

Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, visiting...

A mother determined and completely focused on finding her estranged boyfriend ignores signs of her daughter’s emotional trauma until she is...

Clarissa discovers that her own mother is much more than just her mom.

Kostas is a law-abiding citizen, a quite man living with his mother, his sister Kaiti and his younger brother, Giorgos, who is a student. He works...

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he...

Eulália, a conservative Portuguese mother, found out that her son who emigrated to Germany has become Fostter Riviera, the internationally...

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai,...