Dying mother movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dying mother movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, emotional, serious, psychological and captivating films and TV shows about / with dying mother, family relations, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, terminal illness, death of mother, death, dysfunctional family, family drama and family problems plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dying mother: Maria My Love (2011), Mad Women (2015), Mr. Church (2016), Mother and Son (1997), Other People (2016), The Descendants (2011), Little Sparrows (2010), The Eye of the Storm (2011), Wild Side (2004), Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988).
Best films
New films
| Your Host (2025) | 4.8 | |
| I Kill Giants (2017) | 6.1 | |
| A California Christmas (2020) | 5.9 | |
| Furlough (2018) | 5.5 | |
| Upright (2019) | 8.4 |
List of dying mother movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
.Ana (Judy Marte) is a young woman trying to reimagine her life after her mother’s death during the course of one California spring. Filled with resentment over her father’s mistakes, Ana feels disconnected from herself and everyone around her. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, moral dilemma, under the surface, family problems, obsession, love and romance, parents and children, half sister, class conflict, male female relationship, dying mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, latin america, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A mother of three daughters (one died at the age of three) commits a crime of conscience and becomes radicalized in prison; she turns into an idealist run amok, determined to change her little corner of the world for the better. Her middle daughter, ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, rough
Plot:
lesbian incest, incestuous relationship, erotica, incest, mother daughter incest, lesbian relationship, memory, illness, husband wife relationship, delusion, storytelling, fictional city ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Style:
sentimental, sad, emotional, compassionate, reflective ...
Plot:
african american, life philosophy, food, relationships, family bonds, friendship, interracial friendship, love story, childhood, life, cooking, cancer ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 80s, year 1977, year 1980 ...
Place:
usa, boston, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, depressing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
art, biopic, countryside, childhood, youth, mother and son, landscape, mental disorder, artist, minimal dialogue, spirituality, underground ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, sad, depressing, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
cancer, lgbtq, gay interest, gay, gay son, alienation, gay brother, gay relationship, father son relationship, gay couple, mother son relationship, breakup ...
Place:
indiana, california, sacramento california, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Style:
touching, depressing, sad, poignant, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
infidelity, teenage daughter, bittersweet, dying mother, family drama, grief, father daughter relationship, family relations, beach, dysfunctional family, cheating wife, death ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, iran, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the midst of an Australian summer, we meet three sisters. Nina is widowed with two young children. Anna is an aspiring actress unhappily married to a filmmaker. Christine is a med student who is yet to fully come to terms with her sexuality. When ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
family relations, terminal illness, self discovery, introspection, strong female presence, mother, love, sister sister relationship, dying mother, motherhood, christmas, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel ...
Style:
touching, realistic, stylized, serious, semi serious ...
Plot:
longing, family reunited, dying mother, family life, elderly, family relations, family problems, parents and children, dealing with death, nursing, manipulative person, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
sydney australia, australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A transsexual who survives prostituting herself in Paris, returns – with her two male lovers in town – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sexual, sensual, contemplative ...
Plot:
polyamory, closeted homosexual, lgbt, gay, gay relationship, prostitute, gender, transgender, dying mother, mother daughter relationship, lifestyle, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Style:
surreal, black and white, avant garde, expressionism, independent film ...
Plot:
surrealism, smallpox, hospital, dying mother, village, epidemic, dead woman, cat, medical, seagull, fishing village, hallucination ...
Time:
year 1988, 20th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place:
iceland, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
love story, dysfunctional family, couples, love, female protagonist, fall in love, marriage proposal, full moon, love triangle, love and romance, brother brother relationship, wedding ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Brought together at their childhood home over their dying mother, an estranged family is thrust into a deadly fight for their own survival.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, social, noir
Plot:
home invasion, dying mother, family drama, brothers, family secret, sibling rivalry, estrangement, dark past, emotional breakdown, hostility, claustrophobia, loss ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three distanced, discordant brothers strive to put aside their differences as they reunite after decades at their ancestral home to give their dying mother a peaceful send off, but soon are at loggerheads as the house brings up painful memories of ...
Style:
emotional, serious, intense, realistic
Plot:
brothers, family drama, dying mother, sibling rivalry, bereavement, domestic drama, painful memories, estrangement, memory, grief, family secret, parent child relationship ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: China
TV show
Story:
A story of hope and despair surrounding the lives of a mother and son from a small town in Subei.
The 18-year-old Ding Xiao Jun who lives with his mother Ding Bi Yun has been admitted to a university in Beijing. However, as soon as he entered ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, captivating, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, terminal illness, cancer, family drama, mother and son, university, family relations, coming of age, hopes, dying mother, sick mother, son ...
Time:
year 2010
Place:
beijing china
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Growing up, sisters Misaki and Hazuki couldn't have been more different. Misaki's charming personality and popularity stood in sharp contrast to the older, more responsible yet timid Hazuki. After high school, the two lose touch once ...
Style:
touching, disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
sisterhood, terminal illness, teacher student relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, sibling relationship, relationships, dying mother, sisters, parent child relationship, sister, sick mother ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast, who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When her podcast is sent 10 audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspenseful, atmospheric
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, female protagonist, haunted house, driven mad, obsession, family secret, dying mother, mental illness, slow burn, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother, family drama, mother daughter estrangement, sister sister relationship, family problems, sisters, women, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, estrangement, family relations, estranged sister ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But ...
Style:
touching, road movie, thought provoking, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, escape, rookie, dementia, sibling relationship, mother, strong female character, living with parents, jail, female prisoner, elderly man, female friendship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three siblings find themselves in their childhood home. There is one thing the mother must say. These are the days before Christmas. There is also a girl, who finds herself living those days with them. It looks so familiar. There is an expectation ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
christmas, siblings, family secret, secret, family drama, childhood home, family reunited, brother sister relationship, family relations, problem, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Ishak, a wandering musician from a small mountain town. A lynching he was a part of 7 years ago comes back to haunt him as he returns to his town to say farewell to his dying mother. Facing the other five perpetrators--his childhood friends—as ...
Style:
grim
Plot:
moral dilemma, small village, lynching, character study, dying mother, hopelessness, government corruption, slow burn, isolation, village
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Sweden, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.
Style:
sad, psychological, atmospheric, rough, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, school, escape from reality, imagination, death of mother, giant, cancer, illness, forest, fantasy world, bully, girl ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Style:
thought provoking, sad, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
marriage proposal, tragic event, pregnancy, estranged couple, jealousy, relationships, trauma, love story, car accident, orphan, dead father, child abuse ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, andalusia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
scarecrow, loss of eyesight, road accident, new love, blindness and impaired vision, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, blindness, car crash, swimming pool, dying mother, blind character, therapist ...
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany, russia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
children, psychopath, death, evil child, manipulation, murder, problem child, killer child, deception, disbelieving adult, parents and children, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, asia, japan, new england ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and ...
Style:
bad ending, intense, clever, suspense, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, telekinesis, found footage, supernatural, levitation, coming of age, adolescence, friendship, supernatural ability, bullying, teenage life, teenager ...
Time:
year 2012, future, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa, tibet, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, intense, talky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
holiday, road trip, food, dysfunctional family, family drama, cancer, eccentric family, dialogue, reconciliation, parents and children, family feud, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, reflective, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
transgender woman, transgender, mother daughter relationship, lgbt, acceptance, forgiveness, identity, character study, family drama, transsexuality, transsexual, trans woman ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, desert, smuggling, cross country, misfit, nothing goes right, journey, dishonesty, disorder, partners in crime, on the road, robbery ...
Place:
sydney australia, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Before Amy Myer's mother died when Amy was 7, she planned out the little girl's life on a timeline, including the fact that Amy would marry her 7th boyfriend. When Amy falls in love with #6, she's thrown into a tailspin, because all ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, looking for love, unlikely couple, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations, dating, wedding, passionate kiss, loss of mother, getting married ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, period drama, beautiful
Plot:
female artist, male female relationship, older woman younger man relationship, sexual attraction, museum, mental breakdown, artist, mother daughter relationship, painter, unrequited love, art dealer, heartbreak ...
Time:
1910s, year 1915
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
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