Movies like The Only Mother

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The Only Mother (2003)
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The Only Mother (2003)
Original name: Ang Tanging Ina
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story evolves around the ups and downs of being a single mother, Ina the main protaganist. Her three husbands leave her with 12 children and a financial problems that she needs to shoulder. Simple plot with a hilarious cast. Packed with laughs and tear-jerker scenes with movie/commercial spoofs, surely Ang Tanging Ina will make your heart delight.
Style: funny, light, captivating, entertaining, inspirational, tagalog
Plot: mother, parent child relationship, female protagonist, single parent, motherhood, parenthood, sibling rivalry, children, single mother, kids and family, family relations, parents and children, family problems, life, family life, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, financial problem, lifestyle, money problems, inspiration, life lesson, circumcision, death of husband, gay subtext ...
Place: the philippines
Keyword: filipino

Most similar movies to The Only Mother

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, light and humorous films with plots about family relations, parents and children, kids and family, family life, family problems, relationships and humour mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Only Mother: My Father's Stories (2020), All About Mothers (2018), Call Mom! (2019), Fathers and Mothers (2022), Wagle Ki Duniya (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Father's Stories (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly ...
Style: feel good, captivating, light, funny, humorous ...
Plot: children, father son relationship, lie, parents and children, family life, father and son, kids and family, family relations, deception, con trick, heroes, white lie ...
Time: year 1961
Place: lyon
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Your Only Mother: This Is The Last! (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A few months after Ina left the position as the President of the Philippines, she is back in the media limelight as she releases a book of her life in her journey as a mother to her children and as a mother to the people of the Philippines. Ina now ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, parody, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: mother, parent child relationship, motherhood, female protagonist, illness, death, family feud, anxiety, family problems, family relations, terminal illness, obsession ...
Place: the philippines
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All About Mothers (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: They are the President of the Republic, a nanny, a baker, an actress, a teacher, a florist, a journalist, unemployed, a pediatrician. They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, sincere
Plot: family life, parenthood, motherhood, life, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, relationships, family relations, mother son relationship, mother love, public nudity, female nudity ...
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36%
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Call Mom! (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Parents wait all their lives for their children to say "Thank you!" And the children in turn wait for a "Sorry!". This impossible equation is the starting point in the comedy "Call Mom!" Niki has just turned 35 and has ...
Style: funny, light, captivating, fun
Plot: family relations, mother and daughter, grownups, adulthood, parent grown child relationship, parents and children, family conflict, lifestyle, conflict, kids and family, relationship problems, family life ...
Place: eastern europe
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Fathers and Mothers (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Follows Piv and Ulrik, who are trying to become part of the parent group in their daughter's new school class, going to great lengths to be admitted.
Style: entertaining, exciting, dramatic, funny, humorous ...
Plot: parenting, school, daughter, parent child relationship, kids and family, parents and children, family problems, children, parents daughter relationship, family life, family relations, schoolgirl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Wagle Ki Duniya (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Three generations of the family live together, who share all their happiness and sorrows. Follow the story of this family as they bring laughter to each other's lives and will make your heart melt. A new generation of the old critically ...
Style: funny, entertaining, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: large family, life, family relations, three generations, father son relationship, family problems, family life, parents and children, satire, lifestyle, father daughter relationship, humour ...
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28%
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Dad for Rent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
Style: light, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, father and daughter, parents and children, family relations, humour, money problems, relationship problems, family problems, financial problem, relationships, daughter
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.8
 4K
Wildflower (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
Style: dramatic, captivating, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: parents, family relations, house, parents and children, daughter, parent child relationship, living with parents, parenthood, large family, family problems, parents daughter relationship, family life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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A Boy Named Flora A (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A 28-year-old layabout begins to re-examine his life when his dysfunctional family assembles to pay respects to a dying grandmother who won’t pass on.
Style: captivating, light, entertaining, humorous, sincere
Plot: relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, family life, coping, lifestyle, kids and family, financial problem, family relations, dysfunctional family, social problems, marital problem ...
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Helicopter Mom (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
Style: funny, light, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, mother son relationship, humiliation, domineering mother, parents and children, kids and family, relationships, humour, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, con trick ...
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24%
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Mom Squad (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: New mother Line is living the high life in Hong Kong with husband Bjørn when she discovers that he has been unfaithful to her with their Filipino nanny, so Line takes her baby son and heads back to her old hometown in southern Funen.
Style: feel good, entertaining, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: motherhood, infidelity, divorce, nanny, parents and children, family life, family relations, couple relations, kids and family, fatherhood, husband wife relationship, male female relationship ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Rosebud (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Hyun-ah is listed on top ten of TV audition program with talented voice and attractive appearance. The reason why she is in this show is to be shown to her mom, Jang-mi, who has been separated for over 10years. Jang-mi used to be a potential singer ...
Style: satirical, captivating, sincere, disturbing, psychological
Plot: unplanned pregnancy, lifestyle, single parent, satire, musician, female protagonist, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, money problems, single mother, family problems, parents and children ...
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24%
Dad in Training (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the breakdown of his marriage, a self-involved man begins to embrace fatherhood.
Style: feel good, light, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, divorce, father daughter relationship, humour, fatherhood, kids and family, family relations, parents and children, relationships, parenthood, single parent, family life ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
My Mom is a Character (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After another spat with her kids, Dona HermĂ­nia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, light ...
Plot: eccentric family, family life, disorder, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, humour, parenthood, motherhood, lgbt ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
My Mom is a Character 2 (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dona HermĂ­nia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In ...
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: large family, children, mother, parent child relationship, family life, parents and children, kids and family, family relations, grandmother granddaughter relationship, sisters, adolescence vs adulthood, humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Momzillas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Maricel Soriano and Eugene Domingo co-star with Billy Crawford and Andi Eigenmann as lovers set to get married. However, theres one stumbling block: Their mothers (that is, Maricel and Eugene) are against it. The two moms are revealed to be mortal ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, funny ...
Plot: mother-in-law, romantic relationship, romantic rivalry, wedding, friendship, mother daughter relationship, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romancing partners, humour ...
Place: the philippines
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Motherland (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.
Style: funny, sitcom, entertaining, not serious, feel good ...
Plot: children, family life, mother, parents, working mom, fatherhood, parenthood, husband wife relationship, kids and family, family relations, women, problem solving ...
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22%
Mothers & Daughters (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, pregnancy, woman woman relationship, parent child relationship, mother and daughter, mother child relationship, family relations, parents and children, parenthood, kids and family, eccentric family, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Fatherhood (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own.
Style: sincere, captivating, humorous, inspirational, depressing ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: single father, child, fatherhood, parenthood, father, father daughter relationship, single parent, family relations, father and daughter, parents and children, kids and family, black ...
Place: boston
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22%
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Better Things (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Sam Fox is a single, working actor with no filter trying to raise her three daughters – Max, Frankie and Duke – in Los Angeles. She is mom, dad, referee and the cops.
Style: sincere, light, humorous, sitcom, touching ...
Plot: single mother, dating, family relations, mother daughter relationship, family values, female protagonist, lgbtq, parents and children, family life, motherhood, mischievous children, relationship vs career ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
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22%
The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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22%
Mommies, Happy New Year! (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A continuation of a famous Russian comedy "Mamy" ("Mommies").
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: mother, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, holiday, social relations, kids and family, working mom
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
My Brother's Summer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
Style: entertaining, captivating
Plot: family relations, guilt, father son relationship, children, miscarriage, guilty conscience, mother son relationship, life, relationships, mother, boy, summer ...
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22%
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Not on My Watch (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: parent child relationship, female protagonist, life is a bitch, deception, financial problem, social problems, family problems, mother son relationship, single parent, single mother, family relations, jeweler
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dad's Lunch Box (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: This film was inspired by a real-life story of a Japanese father who for the three years his daughter spent at high school prepared daily bento lunch boxes for her leading to delicious, interesting or offbeat creations. In all cases, he put an ...
Style: captivating, sincere, light, entertaining
Plot: food, father daughter relationship, school, friend, father and daughter, parents and children, care, lifestyle, life, family relations, fatherhood, kids and family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
We Accept Miracles (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his ...
Style: satirical, light, humorous, funny, captivating ...
Plot: provincial life, social problems, society, small community, lifestyle, money problems, community, breaking the law, social satire, family problems, satire, humour ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Best Enemies Forever (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex - husband?
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, satirical ...
Plot: lifestyle, parents and children, motherhood, mother child relationship, family relations, relationships, parenthood, satire, paternity revealed, opposites attract, ex husband, women ...
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21%
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In My Life (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Shirley is a woman who wants to be in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, family relations, parents and children, gender, terminal illness, gay son, parent child relationship, gay relationship, mother son relationship, lifestyle, workplace situations, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, the philippines, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Bekikang: My Gay Mother (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bekikang is left and abandoned with a baby boy by friend, Fortunato. He loves and raises the child as his own flesh and blood. When things are going so well between Bekikang and the child, Fortunato and the mother of the child after years of absence ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, funny, humorous ...
Plot: father son relationship, abandoned baby, parents and children, family relations, family reunited, mother son reunion, eccentric family, mother and son, kids and family, children, humour, male female relationship ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
India Sweets and Spices (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A college freshman confronts her parents’ values in order to understand her own evolving identity.
Style: entertaining, psychological, captivating
Audience: adult
Plot: parents and children, mother daughter relationship, family secret, family relations, satire, family life, father daughter relationship, kids and family, family problems, female protagonist, feminism, college
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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