Mother daughter relationship movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mother daughter relationship movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, sexy, serious, psychological and melancholic films and TV shows about / with mother daughter relationship, teenager, family relations, youth, coming of age, parents and children, female protagonist, teenage girl, woman and women plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mother daughter relationship: Little Thirteen (2012), Mommy Is Coming (2012), Hot Milk (2025), Girl Lost (2016), April's Daughter (2017), Gilmore Girls (2000), Summertime (2015), Somersault (2004), Sharing the Secret (2000), Lolita (1962).

List of mother daughter relationship movies

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Little Thirteen (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.
Style: erotic, thought provoking, romantic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, underage sex, mother daughter relationship, group sex, nymphomania, watching sex, single mother, sexuality, teenage sex, pregnancy, marital problem, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Mommy Is Coming (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 64 min.
Story: With things growing a bit stale in the bedroom, lesbian couple Claudia and Dylan agree to seek sexual experiences outside their relationship. Dylan discovers new pleasures at a sex club, while Claudia, in drag as Claude, finds a surprising partner
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, underground film ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, transvestite, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian threesome, lesbian sex, neglected wife, sex scene, interview, accidental incest, gays and lesbians, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, europe, indiana, germany
Is relevant?
 5.6
 3K
Hot Milk (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry ...
Style: emotional, independent film, art house, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, self discovery, intimate, slow burn, escape, transformation, disability, bisexual, european, rebellion, mature ...
Place: spain
Is relevant?
 6.1
 7K
Girl Lost (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Born into the seedy, underground world of prostitution, 15-year-old Shara has known no other life. Her mother is an aging, career escort, who is now looking to Shara to make the kind of money she made in her youth.
Style: realistic, compassionate, thought provoking, bleak, serious ...
Plot: teenage prostitution, mother daughter relationship, prostitution, human trafficking, underage, abusive boyfriend, sex trafficking, teenage prostitute, violent man, drug use, life is a bitch, teenage life ...
Place: los angeles
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April's Daughter (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having ...
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, melancholic, cult classic
Plot: teenage girl, real estate agent, mother daughter relationship, baby, infidelity, teenage pregnancy, pregnant teenager, teenage mother, male nudity, mother in law, lgbt, horny woman ...
Time: year 2017
Is relevant?
 8.2
 172K
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, friends, boyfriend, looking for love, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, parents and children, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
Is relevant?
 6.7
 6K
Summertime (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
Style: sexy, erotic, eros, sincere, sweet ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, mother daughter relationship, lesbian sex, woman woman relationship, lesbian love, female nudity, farmer, sisterhood, family farm, cow ...
Time: year 1976, year 1971, year 2015, 70s
Place: indiana, paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
 6.7
 8K
Somersault (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style: sexy, touching, emotional, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, dysfunctional relationship, sexual awakening, runaway, youth, menage a trois, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: australia, new south wales, california, new zealand
Is relevant?
Sharing the Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, teenage daughter, bulimia, mental illness, family relations, family life, parent child relationship, starvation, obsession, physical appearance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 7.5
 115K
Lolita (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: forbidden love, lolita, age difference, girl man relationship, seduction, pedophilia, lust, mother daughter relationship, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, sexualized violence ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1962, near future ...
Place: new hampshire, usa, ohio
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Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, desert, women, adolescence, mother daughter relationship, love, friendship, food, bittersweet ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa, argentina, mexico
Is relevant?
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, lgbtq, lesbian love, sapphic, high school life, lesbian sex, lesbian romance, youth, lesbian relationship, loss of virginity, lesbian couple, lesbian teen ...
Time: 90s, year 1989, year 1993
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Jack of the Red Hearts (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.
Style: touching, sentimental, thought provoking, compassionate, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, disability, brother sister relationship, marriage, mental illness, understanding, unlikely friendships, family bonds, self discovery, bittersweet, human nature, husband wife relationship ...
Is relevant?
 5.4
 21K
The Monster (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard before. Something that lurks in the darkness and it’s coming after them.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, spooky, tense ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, road trip, ambulance, forest, creature, creature feature, mother, car accident, trapped, strong female character, found footage ...
Time: 2010s
Is relevant?
Girl in Progress (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, couple relations, teenage girl, teenage life, married man, coming of age, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family relations, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, seattle
Is relevant?
 5.9
 29K
Georgia Rule (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style: teen, sincere, stylized, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, teenager, family problems, parents and children, rebellious daughter, redemption, drinking, honest, secrets, confession ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa, salt lake city utah, san francisco, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
 6.6
 4K
Ava (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her ...
Style: sexy, captivating, erotic, art house, touching ...
Plot: beach, teenage girl, summer vacation, first love, coping, nudism, female nudity, nightmare, female pubic hair, underage sex, tough girl, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s
Is relevant?
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel, single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teen angst, teenage girl, high school, women, mother, single mother, family drama, love, woman woman relationship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, wisconsin
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 6.7
 4K
Tumbleweeds (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom takes up with a controlling trucker and fights with her ...
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mother daughter relationship, asthma, single mother, road trip, friendship, single parent, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, motel, on the road, human nature, starting over ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: san diego california, california, arizona, missouri, north carolina ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 377
Barrage (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep ...
Style: art house, thought provoking, enigmatic, suspense, touching ...
Plot: mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, runaway, escapades, female protagonist, character study, introspection, regret, trauma, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Is relevant?
Sister My Sister (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The film is based on a true incident in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter. The murder shocked the country, and there was much speculation about the sisters, ...
Style: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: incest, lesbian incest, incestuous relationship, sister sister incest, lesbian, lesbianism, class differences, murder, sex scene, secret relationship, two sisters, widow ...
Time: 1930s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: france, europe
Is relevant?
 7.1
 146K
Wild (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style: meditative, road movie, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, starting over, female protagonist, death of mother, tourism, human spirit, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2014, year 1995, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, portland oregon, oregon, usa, mojave desert ...
Is relevant?
 5.6
 8K
Clip (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jasna, a beautiful teenager, leads a crude life in post-war Serbia. She goes on a spree of sex, drugs and partying until she finds love and tenderness in a harsh environment.
Style: realistic, sexy, sexual, controversial, rough ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: explicit sex, masturbation, innocence lost, sexual relations, teenage sex, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, destructive relationship, strong sexual content, partying, youth, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: serbia, europe, eastern europe
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 6.7
 5K
The Mother (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Style: psychological, erotic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, love affair, age difference, older woman younger man sex, mother daughter relationship, incest, relationships, male female relationship, secret relationship, secrets, infidelity, women ...
Time: year 2003
Place: london, england, europe
Is relevant?
Lies My Mother Told Me (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Joely Richardson plays a con artist who changes identities faster than most women change hair color. Going on the lam with her daughter (Hayden Panettiere), she scams her way into a prosperous marriage and, when that union sours, pulls off a murder ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mother daughter relationship, murder, horse ranch, single parent, hidden identity, cons and scams, family relations, dishonesty, femme fatale, parents and children, on the run, free spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, las vegas, usa
Is relevant?
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago. But after ...
Style: fairy tale, christmas classics, sentimental, feel good, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, court, lawyer, department store, thanksgiving, judge, mother daughter relationship, friendship, single mother, girl ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 70s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Is relevant?
 5.6
 693
Love Me! (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sarah is loud, non-conform, rude, honest and provocative. She seems invincible, but she is lonely and lost. Struggling with her daily life.
Style: humorous, light, psychological, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, student, father daughter relationship, loneliness, mentally unstable protagonist, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, promiscuous woman, love, emotionally unstable, mentally unstable woman, breakup ...
Place: germany, berlin germany
Is relevant?
The Good Mother (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After her best friend dies, a teen discovers that the girl's mother deliberately made her sick.
Style: captivating, suspense, entertaining
Plot: mother daughter relationship, sick child, mental illness, teenager, teenage daughter, family secret, family problems, uncover truth, family relations, murderer, parents and children, funeral ...
Is relevant?
 7.1
 4K
Restless (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, mother daughter relationship, spy, espionage, intrigue, secret hideout, secret service, government agency, undercover, double agent, british secret service, secret agent ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 70s, 1930s
Place: europe, united kingdom, new york, london, holland ...
Is relevant?
 6.6
 7K
Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, surreal ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, horror for children
Plot: nightmare, children, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, boy, visceral, supernatural, dream world, transformation, serial killer, supernatural ability, macabre ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, britain
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