| Mum (2016) | 8.3 | |
| A Simple Favor (2018) | 6.7 | |
| Big Little Lies (2017) | 8.4 | |
| A Quiet Place (2018) | 7.5 | |
| Erin Brockovich (2000) | 7.5 |
Mother movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mother movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic, tense, suspense and emotional films and TV shows about / with mother, family relations, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, mother son relationship, family problems, female protagonist, family drama, women and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mother: Troubled Child (2012), You're Not Alone (2020), Savage Grace (2007), After Him (2007), Born Guilty (2017), Novel Romance (2006), The Crimes That Bind (2020), High-Rise Rescue (2017), The Quietude (2018), The First Beautiful Thing (2010).
Best films
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of coping with an adopted child suffering from Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
son, child protagonist, adoption, treatment, therapy, problem child, trauma, mother, disorder, foster child, dysfunctional family, childhood trauma ...
Place:
nebraska
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to torment them, mother and ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, scary, suspenseful
Plot:
supernatural, mother daughter relationship, new house, mother, female protagonist, nightmare, waking up from a nightmare, haunted by the past, pursuit, haunted house, nightmare comes true, childhood home ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, erotic, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, gay, sexual relations, sex scene, adultery, crimes of passion, mother son relationship, son, older woman younger man, murder, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
london, europe, new york, spain, peru ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
death of son, obsession, death in the family, couples, family problems, family relations, dealing with death, love and romance, best friend, car accident, mother, grief ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
What happens when you secretly pay someone to romance your Mom?
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
mother, son, social worker, mother son relationship, overprotective mother, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, family relations, family problems, love affair, relationship problems, love story ...
Place:
new york, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Book editor Max Normane can perfect anyone’s story apart from her own. Highly successful but highly single, she comes up with a novel plan: a publication in exchange for a sperm donation. But will she get her happy ending?
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
mother, couples, love, single parent, looking for love, family relations, workplace situations, workplace, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, venice california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.
Style:
witty, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
trial, murder, husband wife relationship, prison, mother, graphic violence, danger, hitman, criminal heroes, dark humor, rape, homeless ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An emotionally gripping family action drama about a mother who will do whatever it takes to save her family.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, rescue, fire, mother, firefighter, female protagonist, trapped, problem, trap, family drama, family in danger, marriage ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
Style:
erotic, tense, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
sister sister incest, sex with sister in law, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, masturbation, lawyer, pregnancy, dark secret, family relations, mother, extramarital affair, death ...
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
mother, femme fatale, mother son relationship, parents and children, homecoming, family life, small town, passion, terminal illness, parent child relationship, youth, jealous spouse ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
love affair, adultery, infidelity, passion, housewife, child abuse, small town, unfaithful wife, dysfunctional family, perversion, temptation, sexual pleasure ...
Time:
y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional, sad, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, kidnapped, captive, room, mother son relationship, child born of rape, female protagonist, child protagonist, rape, boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
ER nurse Helen Sterling struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and State agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists, advocates, and ...
Style:
political, political thriller, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, mother, war crime, fighting the system, against the odds, human spirit, prisoners of war, loss of son, military, life & death, captivity, war ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, psychological, tense, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
blackmail, youth, destiny, friendship, mother, house, daughter, disorder, parents and children, childhood friend, bare chested male, dog fighting ...
Time:
year 2017
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Style:
uplifting, gothic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
great depression, ku klux klan, racism, farm, blindness, small town, lynching, mother, single mother, survival, friendship, blind character ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1935, year 1984, 80s
Place:
texas, southern usa, austin texas, midwest, usa
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Vidya Sinha (Vidya Balan) has only one obsession in life. She wants to see her teenage daughter Mini, who is paralysed waist-downwards, walk again. But, is this scenario as obvious as it seems? Or is Vidya an impersonator of Durga Rani Singh from ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
investigation, unsolved crime, kidnapping, mother, crime investigation, mysterious disappearance, child abduction, disappearance, accusation, confronting the past, crime solving, cold case ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Breeders exposes the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.
Style:
funny, humorous, ironic, sweet, light ...
Plot:
parenthood, children, parent grown child relationship, family relations, husband wife relationship, parents and children, father, mother, father son relationship, school, long term relationship, family affairs ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Amber Vickers is ecstatic that she will finally be making the walk down the aisle with her prince charming Luke. After multiple failed relationships, she was beginning to think that something was wrong; but her soon-to-be mother-in-law and best ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
engagement, mother in law, mother in law daughter in law relationship, attempted murder, investigation, guest, mother, medication, patient, eavesdropping, party, family problems ...
Place:
cleveland ohio, boston
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, parents and children, teenage life, drug abuse, family problems, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family, youth, mother, scandinavian girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into ...
Style:
suspense, perverse, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mother, revenge, vengeance, murder, children, female masturbation, female warrior, home invasion, drug, crime solving, murder investigation, cold case ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with ...
Style:
factual, tense, captivating, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
drug smuggling, colombian drug cartel, woman, gang, drug cartel, mother, smuggler, cocaine, parent child relationship, drug, arrest, drug dealer ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, psychological
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mother, family relations, autobiography, redemption, couples, love, adaptation, family problems, teenage girl, youth, mother daughter conflict, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.
Style:
entertaining, fairy tale, sweet, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dog, dalmatian, pets, puppy, female villain, talking animal, chase, christmas, animal, cat, burglary, rescue ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two best friends. And their lust for each one's opponent mothers. Junhyeong and Daejin are best friends. One day Daejin’s mom visits Junhyeong who is heartbroken when he was disappointed in love. She suggests that she will teach him sex and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic drama
Plot:
mother, male female relationship, lifestyle, relationship problems, teenage sexuality, family problems, family relations, loss of mother, sexual relations, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dona Hermínia 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, not serious, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
large family, children, mother, parents and children, kids and family, parent child relationship, family life, family relations, grandmother granddaughter relationship, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, sisters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, south america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When her son who lives in a single room is given an outrageous $1,000 water bill, a mother decides to become a detective and find out what is behind it.
Style:
satirical, humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective ...
Plot:
mother, mother son relationship, investigation, satire, female protagonist, family relations, lawyer, female student, money, law student, uncover truth, student ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), get by on their own, left to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree, vivacious and anarchic. But ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
sister sister relationship, family relations, mother, female protagonist, custody, problem, sisters, guardian, family life, social services, disappearance, sister ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Shingo Okazaki is a young man devoted to his mother to a degree that's rare in Japan. He's a young fellow who treats his mother with respect, but his tendency to overdo it makes his filial devotion look more like a little fault to those ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
mother, mother son relationship, relationships, love, motherhood, family drama, couple relations, mother and son, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, parents and children, love affair ...
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Genre: Family, History, War
Country: Australia, Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.
Style:
captivating, emotional, reflective, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
mother, mother and daughter, refugee, parent child relationship, world war two, daughter, mother daughter relationship, family relations, gulag, josef stalin, uncover truth, kids and family ...
Place:
poland, australia, siberia
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