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Once Upon My Mother (2025)
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Original name: Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.
Plot:
cancer, disabled child, mother, mother love, dancing, lawyer, wedding, death, subway, handicapped, tennis, birthday, doctor, hospital, cemetery, singer, childbirth, baby, birth, car accident, funeral, pregnant woman, female singer, grave, loss of wife ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, year 1963, 1960s
Place:
paris france, south of france
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Most similar movies to Once Upon My Mother
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, captivating, psychological and sincere films with plots about pregnant woman, death, pregnancy, hospital, funeral, baby and telephone call mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Once Upon My Mother: Bad Girl (2012), The Baby (2023), Three Floors (2021), Eternity (2016), The Sixth Child (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
95%
508
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joseph learns that his son and his companion have just perished in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. What will become of their future baby? Is Joseph the legitimate grandfather? Carried by the promise of ...
Plot:
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93%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
Plot:
bourgeoisie, family drama, psychosis, mother son conflict, newborn, neighbor neighbor relationship, pregnant woman, father son relationship, birth, newborn baby, ego, hallucination ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, melancholic, family saga
Plot:
eternity, birth, love, family relations, family history, family values, loss of spouse, storytelling, loss of child, death, funeral, death of daughter ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement.
Plot:
female nudity, breast feeding, baby, police station, catholic, newborn baby, courtroom, hospital, money problems, trial, pregnant woman, van ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
childhood love, platonic, telephone call, suicide, death of daughter, airplane, fencing, airplane crash, baby, female nudity, loss of daughter, tennis ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
Plot:
fireman, fire, firefight, killed in a car crash, pregnancy, nudity, homelessness, suicidal thoughts, arson, pregnant woman, balloon, photograph ...
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it’s your own father?
Plot:
lgbt, elderly, old age, father daughter relationship, sea, birthday present, doctor, nightmare, suicide, hospital, telephone call, train ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Benjamin and Aude have loved each other for 7 years. They live together on a small island in Brittany. Benjamin dreams of starting a family but the couple learns that Aude is sterile. So Benjamin has an idea. He is the one who will bear their child ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
swimming pool, transgender, aggression, island, seaside, kite, dancing, little boy, hospital, pregnant woman, child, nudity ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Paris 2052. Julia, 80 years old, had a fulfilled life. On her birthday, she reflects on the decisions and circumstances that could have led her on different paths. From the age of 17 to this day, her life was full of small but critical moments. Each ...
Plot:
beach, pregnant woman, doctor, concert, high school teacher, choir, death of mother, birthday, ambulance, female protagonist, elevator, bus ...
Time:
year 1989, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, west berlin west germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while ...
Plot:
pregnant woman, female best friends, postpartum depression, police arrest, hotel, midwife, painting, beach, caught in a lie, childbirth, motherhood, police ...
Place:
paris france, normandy
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps ...
Plot:
pyromaniac, pregnancy, rain, fireman, rainstorm, birth, car accident, village, twins, firefighting, baby, photograph ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
south of france
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, sick child, death of child, little boy, youth, hiv positive, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, ...
Style:
suspense, sentimental, touching, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hospital, surgery, doctor, illness, cancer, friend, friendship, student, drinking, death, life is a bitch, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
country girl, lawyer, sister, estrangement, family relations, introspection, siblings relations, family problems, hopes, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, marseille
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
Style:
tragic, whimsical
Plot:
accident, thunderstorm, horse, childbirth, disability, horse race, newborn baby, handicapped, pregnant woman, newborn, pregnancy, baby ...
Time:
year 2001, 2010s, 2000s
Place:
normandy
Similarity:
54%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other ...
Style:
deep
Plot:
parents and children, family reunited, rain, spirit, night, infidelity, forest fire, female nudity, telephone call, diabetic, dancing, funeral ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two kinds of love are experienced by young Ricky Schroder in this made-for-TV drama. One kind is the tenuous affection he extends to his estranged father when Schroder's mother unexpectedly dies. The other kind consists of the teasing ...
Plot:
boy, coming of age, video game, anger, soccer match, fight, drums, school, soccer, basketball, bicycle, hospital ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence.
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
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Time:
year 2017, 2020s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, dramatic, non-linear ...
Plot:
writers, travel and leisure, changing lives, lifestyle change, cross country trip, life, travel, coma, biopic, rehabilitation, accident, solitude ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
his drama is set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney ('Colm Meany' ) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty - the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, dark comedy ...
Plot:
scarecrow, feud, social relations, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, village life, revenge, husband wife relationship, wedding night, abusive father, lactation, unfaithfulness ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, tense, contemplative ...
Plot:
troubled teen, pregnant teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl, death of mother, high school, school, youth, society, parents and children, transformation, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france
Similarity:
49%
949
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
women's rights, family drama, bureaucracy, moral dilemma, social realism, shame, teenage pregnancy, guilt, identity crisis, girl, pregnant woman, birth ...
Place:
morocco
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
restaurant, food, gift, bookseller, newborn, bare chested male, mother daughter relationship, loss of mother, bad singing, death of son, sex scene, church ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
actor, filmmaking, factory, death, brother sister relationship, singer, doctor, pneumonia, old woman, birthday, dancing, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Three women Smita, Giulia and Sarah from different parts of the world who have never met but they are bound by something intimate and unique.
Plot:
hair, empowerment, women, breast cancer, debt, middle class, high society, female lawyer, social class, poverty, lower class, girl fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, italy, canada
Similarity:
45%
991
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
Plot:
pregnant teenager, female friendship, homeless, teenage pregnancy, friendship, poverty, voice over narration, death, singing, baby, funeral, snow ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are visiting a small island village off the coast of west Australia, that is easier said than done.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, powerful
Plot:
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Place:
mongolia
Similarity:
42%
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