Abandoned by mother movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant abandoned by mother movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, touching and independent film films and TV shows about / with abandoned by mother, family relations, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, teenager, mother daughter relationship and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as abandoned by mother: Trucker (2008), The Miracle (1991), Wildlife (2018), I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009), Evelyn (2002), Two Is a Family (2016), Future Weather (2012), I Could Go on Singing (1963), The Shipping News (2001), Kiss at Pine Lake (2012).
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List of abandoned by mother movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Loner Diane Ford (Michelle Monaghan) is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter (Jimmy Bennett), whom she never sees, and that's fine with her. But, when Peter's father, Len (Benjamin Bratt), falls ill, he asks Diane to take care of ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, erotic, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
truck, one night stand, truck driver, female protagonist, female orgasm, on the road, working mom, married man, strong female presence, single parent, lifestyle, family problems ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, erotic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
mother son incest, oedipus complex, friendship, unrequited love, abandoned by mother, incest, obsession, couples, youth, betrayal, love and romance, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, unemployment, infidelity, cheerleader, unemployed, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, parents and children, fired from the job, marital separation, family relations ...
Time:
year 1960, 90s, 60s
Place:
montana, oklahoma city, sarajevo, portland oregon, idaho ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens
Plot:
mother son reunion, youth, foster child, disorder, adoption, parents and children, haunted by the past, mother son relationship, family problems, family relations, mischievous children, siblings relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, intense ...
Plot:
children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, single father, courtroom drama, 007 ...
Time:
50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
Style:
feel good, touching, funny, sad, sentimental ...
Plot:
single father, parenting, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, terminal illness, child care, responsibility, childhood, abandoned by mother, absent mother, learning the truth, parents ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
africa, france, europe, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, gain trust, dysfunctional family, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
singer, adoption, family relations, parent child relationship, love and romance, single parent, artists and showbiz, youth, musician's life, parents and children, lovers reunited, showbiz ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
england, london, big ben london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, stylized, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
redemption, small town, incest, single parent, adultery, hopes, newspaper, depression, isolation, reporter, starting over, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
canada, nova scotia, newfoundland, atlantic ocean, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A boy and a girl fall in love during summer camp and promise to stay in touch, but they don't. Fifteen years later they meet again in the same camp under very different circumstances. What will happen to the camp and will they try again?
Style:
romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
abandoned by mother, financial problem, enemies to lovers, businessman, fall in love, couple relations, renovation, romantic relationship, relationships, social relations, social activist, love and romance ...
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the ...
Style:
entertaining, sincere, captivating, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
foster home, foster child, birth mother, bully, social services, friendship, soul mate, brother sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, social worker, name calling ...
Place:
maryland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the ...
Style:
melancholic, sweet, light, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prison, prison escape, murder, adultery, extramarital affair, prison warden, couple relations, love and romance, confined, life is a bitch, escape, couples ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, america, usa, australia, canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Salomé is a Mexican Telenovela that aired from October 22, 2001 until May 17, 2002, and it's starred Edith González and Guy Ecker.
Style:
soap opera, emotional, captivating, disturbing, sensual ...
Plot:
cabaret, dancer, dancehall girl, life is a bitch, dancing, abandoned baby, abandoned by mother, family problems, relationship problems, social problems, mother daughter conflict, abandonment ...
Place:
mexico city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Léa, the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot:
unrequited love, coming of age, children, childhood, youth, dysfunctional family, abused child, abandoned by mother, faking illness, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boyhood ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, crime drama, crying ...
Plot:
prison, mentor, friendship, prison life, criminal, confined, teaching the ways of the world, jail, gang, drug, anger, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
TV show
Style:
captivating, thrilling, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mother and daughter, hidden identity, family secret, secrets, marooned, abandoned by mother, searching for the truth, family problems, absent mother, abandoned baby, problem ...
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The devastating disappearance of a young girl haunts her grieving family in this fact-based tale feature debut from filmmaker Dionysius Zervos. Hungering for some quality alone time with her new boyfriend, Ray (Costas Mandylor), single mother ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
single mother, family tragedy, family drama, disappearance, loss, beach, grief, missing child, marooned, separation from family, separation, mother and daughter ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
It's about 3 sisters and their father who live together after their mother left them. They want to get married but so many things happen and change their life.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
sisters, family bonds, family drama, relationships, changing lives, male female relationship, family relations, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, father, kids and family, family problems ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style:
surreal, creepy, scary, slasher horror, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
supernatural, chimpanzee, telepathy, psychic power, teenage girl, serial killer, killer, mysticism, insect, female psychopath, investigation, violent woman ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland, zurich switzerland, alps, munich germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter ...
Style:
road movie, black and white, stylized, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
on the road, airport, journalist, single mother, photography, stranger, intimacy, road trip, rock concert, child abandonment, strong female character, travel ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
germany, west germany, amsterdam, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
Style:
disturbing, neurotic, futuristic, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lookalikes, secret relationship, double life, rivalry, conflict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, society, high school crush, memory, virtual reality, brotherhood, teenager ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a secret that threatens to tear the church apart: her romantic past with a nonbeliever, Augie. As Mara’s ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teenage girl, religion, pastor, snake, father daughter relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, secret, guilt, friendship, lie, adaptation, escapades ...
Place:
appalachia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After abandoning her son, a female boxing trainer rises from the ashes to coach him in the biggest fight of his career.
Style:
poignant, tense, inspirational
Plot:
boxing, mother son relationship, redemption, family drama, comeback, fight scenes, second chance, urban, working class, abandoned by mother, alcoholic, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it ...
Style:
romantic, teen, sexy, romantic comedy, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
high school, bullying, coming of age, teenage girl, relationships, teen romance, teenager, class differences, high school student, love story, father daughter relationship, first love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, massachusetts, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Style:
sentimental, touching, intense, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
hospital, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional family, women, sisters, family problems, eccentric family, family life, family gatherings, terminal illness, looking for love ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, year 2000, 2000s, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
TV show
Story:
Alphonse, a quadragenarian going through a professional and marital crisis, reconnects with a father he barely knew and discovers a surprising new calling. Along the way, he meets a galaxy of women, each more exciting and quirkier than the last, ...
Style:
sex comedy
Plot:
sex worker, father son relationship, male prostitute, nudity, aging, male protagonist, dysfunctional marriage, childhood memory, male star appears nude, promiscuous man, male nudity, prostitute ...
Place:
paris france, italy, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style:
depressing, intellectual, psychological, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
suicide, depression, mental illness, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, lgbtq, writer's life, lgbt, lesbian love, introspection ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 2001, 90s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, england, california, london, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A stressed-out police officer struggles not to give in to the paranoia that grips his small mountain town as bodies turn up after each full moon.
Style:
suspense, scary, dark, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot:
werewolf, serial killer, snow, killing spree, investigation, murder, police, loss of father, mountain, full moon, small town, wolf ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
utah
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
15 year-old Molly is top of her high school class. But nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as a prostitute on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a ...
Style:
independent film, erotic, detective, slasher, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prostitution, serial killer, cheerleader, psychopath, teenage girl, child prostitute, vigilante, double life, private school, making love, high school, female protagonist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, southern california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A traveling cellist gets involved with two disturbed sisters on their way to Seattle to tell their mom that their dad has just passed away. On the way, the two kill a judge and a few others unknown to the cellist. Eventually he gets pinned for the ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, dangerous attraction, murder, criminal heroes, psychopath, false accusation, danger, mentally unstable, police investigation, violence spree, parents and children, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, usa
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