Overprotective mother movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant overprotective mother movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, serious and realistic films and TV shows about / with overprotective mother, family relations, parents and children, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, family problems, teenager, husband wife relationship, youth and male female relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as overprotective mother: Close-Ups (2014), My Son (2006), Lethal Seduction (2015), Butterflies Are Free (1972), The Nest (2019), The Man in the Attic (1995), Home (2016), Dogtooth (2009), Mater (2017), Mother's Day (2010).

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 5.3
 208
Close-Ups (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: 37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, sincere
Plot: mother in law son in law relationship, overprotective mother, mother daughter relationship, absent father, husband wife relationship, marital argument, domineering mother, dysfunctional family, sculptor, pregnancy, jealousy, desperation ...
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 6.8
 831
My Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, gloomy
Plot: mother son relationship, psychological abuse, puberty, domineering mother, incestuous desire, teenage boy, dysfunctional family, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, suburban life, incest overtones ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Lethal Seduction (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: High School senior Mark Richards has never minded his overprotective widowed mother,Tanya, and is a good son to her as he prepares to go off to Princeton in the fall. However, when he comes under the sexual spell of the rapacious, manipulative older ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, enigmatic ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, mother and son, mother son relationship, older woman younger man, manipulative woman, age difference, obsession, teenager, violence, teenage boy, stalker, capture ...
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Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker (Edward Albert) moves away from his overprotective mother (Eileen Heckart, who won an Oscar). After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner (Goldie ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, intense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: blindness, blind man, disability, neighbor, overprotective mother, fall in love, happy ending, love story, manic pixie dream girl, couple relations, actress, blonde ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: san francisco, usa, los angeles
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 5.9
 2K
The Nest (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Samuel is a paraplegic young boy living with his mother Elena in "Lake manor," an isolated mansion surrounded by woods. With the strict prohibition to walk away from the mansion, stuck in a family routine, Samuel grows serene but ...
Style: suspense, gothic horror, gothic, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: disabled child, overprotective mother, boy girl relationship, isolated house, family secret, paraplegic, teenage girl, zombie, runaway, mansion, doctor, evil mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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The Man in the Attic (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on a true story from 1910, this tells the story of a young man who is hidden in an attic by his older lover.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: older woman younger man sex, obsession, youth, attic, love, couple relations, femme fatale, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, love and romance, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
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 7.1
 1K
Home (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The struggle between two generations and its thin line between trust, friendship and betrayal.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, bleak, erotic
Plot: sex scene, mother son incest, teenage sexuality, teenage life, mother son relationship, coming of age, lie, school, son murders mother, erotica, oedipus complex, hand job ...
Time: 90s
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 7.2
 109K
Dogtooth (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style: disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, cat, child abuse, brother sister incest, eccentric family, overprotective father, confined, sexual awakening, perversion, greek ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: greece, europe
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 4.7
 260
Mater (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Mater is a film about the struggle between love and law; about social differences and distances that these generate. And about love, that crosses all, allows all: both good and evil.
Style: captivating, suspense
Plot: woman rapes man, lesbian couple, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, couple relations, wanting a baby, social problems, lesbian, lesbian seduction, male female relationship, relationships, social issues ...
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 6.2
 18K
Mother's Day (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, serious ...
Plot: home invasion, hostage, kidnapping, rape and revenge, psychopath, sadistic horror, danger, mentally unstable, siblings relations, violence spree, manipulation, revenge ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
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Night Warning (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, basketball, homosexuality, gay teacher, serial killer, attic, homosexual, male nudity, high school, gay, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: parents separation, family life, aging, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, mother and son, single parent, care, overprotective mother, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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 5.7
 6K
The Monitor (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: delusion, haunted by the past, social worker, family relations, danger, murder, mother son relationship, ghost, nordic, thoughtful, teenager, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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The Three GentleBros (2022)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: Thailand
TV show
Story: Overbearing mother Pimpattra has three sons—Itchaya, Thevis, and Ashira—by three different fathers. Regardless of her sons' feelings, Pimpattra has plans to set all three up with women she sees as worthy daughters-in-law. Then three ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, mother son relationship, parents and children, overprotective mother, grownups, couple relations, kids and family, overprotective parent, love story, eccentric family, male female relationship, love interest ...
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 5.2
 126
iGilbert (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gilbert is a lonely man who sees the world through the prism of his phone's screen. When a chance at a real relationship enters his life, can he truly relate to a woman and find love?
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: relationships, love triangle, overprotective mother, love interest, love and romance, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, adult living with parents, self doubt, love story, love affair ...
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Secret Mother (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Story of a mysterious surrogate mother who enters the home of a woman holding the secret behind her child's death.
Style: captivating, suspense
Plot: overprotective mother, overprotective parent, mother son relationship, relationship problems, family problems, family relations, care, parents and children, relationships, psychiatrist, family secret, disappearance ...
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 5.7
 272
Murder In-Law (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: mother in law daughter in law relationship, overprotective mother, dysfunctional family, overprotective parent, family problems, life is a bitch, murderer, mother son relationship, murder, husband wife relationship, family relations, relationship problems ...
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 3.8
 201
Born Guilty (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: What happens when you secretly pay someone to romance your Mom?
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
Plot: mother, son, overprotective mother, mother daughter relationship, friends, family relations, male female relationship, love and romance, in love, parents and children, overprotective parent, relationship problems ...
Place: new york
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 4.6
 328
Meddling Mom (2012)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Take Carmen Vega downtown and book her! Carmen (Sonia Braga) is guilty as charged of scheming with her two best friends, Marisol and Valeria (Rose Abdoo and Saundra Santiago) to stick her nose in everything in her two adult daughter’s lives. From ...
Style: light, entertaining, captivating, feel good, exciting
Plot: dinner, male bonding, in laws, ritual, party, protective mother, overprotective mother, mother and daughter, single mother, couples, daughter, love ...
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Love's Greek to Me (2023)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When Ilana travels to Santorini with her Greek boyfriend Mike for his sister Alex's wedding, she's thrilled to be asked to be her American Maid of Honor. Mike surprises Ilana by proposing, leaving Ilana gets caught in the whirlwind created ...
Style: emotional, sincere, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: wedding, couples, love, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, overprotective mother, male female relationship, family relations, mother and son, love and romance, couple relations, relationships ...
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 6.5
 606
Her Way (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: prostitution, mother son relationship, prostitute, financial problem, life is a bitch, blind ambition, social problems, female protagonist, money problems, family relations, overprotective mother, female nudity ...
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 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
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 7.0
 150K
Turning Red (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.
Style: anime, entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: teenage girl, shapeshifting, friendship, giant animal, furry, coming of age, temple, female protagonist, teenager, animal, mother daughter relationship, domineering mother ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, year 2002
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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No Hard Feelings (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon ...
Style: romantic comedy, raunchy comedy, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: female nudity, skinny dipping, son, parents, animal shelter, friendship, male virgin, guy, young woman, money problems, young man, teenage boy ...
Place: new york state, new york
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel ...
Style: fairy tale, motion capture, semi serious, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: mermaid, sea, magic spell, evil witch, merman, human, princess, female protagonist, wish fulfillment, interspecies friendship, interspecies romance, interracial romance ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s
Place: caribbean
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The Truth About Jane (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, school, high school life, youth, lesbian sex, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, gay teacher, mother daughter relationship, friendship, high school, loss of virginity ...
Time: 90s, year 1989, year 1993
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Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: The joke's on absent-minded scientist Wayne Szalinski when his troublesome invention shrinks him, his brother and their wives so effectively that their children think they've completely disappeared. Of course, this gives the kids free rein ...
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, inventor, mother daughter relationship, experiment gone awry, fish out of water, nothing goes right, rescue, misfit, odd couple, mischievous children, disorder, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: usa
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 6.7
 95K
Run (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: overprotective parent, mother daughter relationship, bad mother, kidnapping, revenge, teenage girl, single mother, disability, lie, teenage life, woman in a wheelchair, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2020s
Place: seattle, washington state
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 5.8
 7K
See for Me (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When blind former skier Sophie cat-sits in a secluded mansion, three thieves invade for the hidden safe. Sophie's only defense is army veteran Kelly, who she meets on the See For Me app. Kelly helps Sophie defend herself against the invaders ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: home invasion, blind woman, mansion, female protagonist, blindness, threat, privacy invasion, fighting crime, breaking and entering, blind character, invasion, protector ...
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 5.3
 942
Gone Missing (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When two best friends go missing during Spring Break, their mothers do everything they can to find them, while realizing that their different parenting styles may have led to the disappearances.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: resort, investigation, parents and children, missing person, best friend, danger, missing child, kidnapped, high school student, missing daughter, teenage rebellion, spring break ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, tijuana mexico, paris france
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