Dead mother movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dead mother movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing and psychological films and TV shows about / with dead mother, family relations, teenager, father son relationship, coming of age, blood, father daughter relationship, murder, family problems and suspense plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dead mother: Entrusted (2003), Billy Elliot (2000), Insidious: The Last Key (2018), Hidden (2009), Boy Wonder (2010), Life Itself (2018), Midnight (1982), Miss Stevens (2016), Naked As We Came (2012), Pieces (1982).
Best films
List of dead mother movies
716
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, prodigy, coming of age, on the run, survival, young heroes, heroic mission, against humanity, youth, war, rivalry ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, switzerland
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138K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, gay, father son relationship, friendship, dancing, working class, childhood, audition, follow your dream, boxing, dancer's life ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 90s, 80s
Place:
england, northern england, london, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, spirit, haunted house, medium, father daughter relationship, haunted, suspense, psychic, kidnapped girl, supernatural horror, basement ...
Time:
year 1953, year 2010, 50s
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
house, dead mother, life is a bitch, homecoming, mental illness, haunted by the past, parents and children, death in the family, family problems, family relations, forest, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, norway
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, vengeance, childhood trauma, vigilante, criminal, murder, dead mother, pimp, vigilantism, haunted by the past, policewoman, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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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, captivating, sad, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
tragic event, pregnancy, estranged couple, marriage proposal, jealousy, relationships, love story, orphan, love triangle, car accident, dead father, child abuse ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, andalusia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenage girl runs away from home because police officer/stepfather puts the moves on her. Hitchhiking to California, she's picked up by two guys who are also traveling cross-country. Along the way, they decide to camp out in the woods and run ...
Style:
slasher, pastoral, psychotronic, satanic, cult film ...
Plot:
backwoods, satanist, dead mother, racism, occult, serial killer, satanic cult, teenager, redneck, ghost, killer, murderer ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A high school English teacher becomes a weekend chaperone for three students at a drama competition.
Style:
captivating, humorous, light, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, teacher, coming of age, flirting, monologue, english teacher, depression, dead mother, competition, teacher student relationship, remote control, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Love, loss and hope are tumultuously explored amidst a tranquil backdrop and asks us all the question: What is your dream?
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gay, gay interest, broken family, sick mother, reconciliation, mother daughter relationship, gay sex, family relations, gay lead character, lgbtq, dead mother, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
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12K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, chainsaw, suspense, college, psychopath, exploitation, stalking, sexual repression, sadistic psychopath, investigation, woman in danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, year 1942
Place:
boston, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, controversial, sexy, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, nun, lesbian sex, incest, sexual abuse, revenge, moral corruption, evil nun, sex, surrealism, violence, disguise ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Style:
surreal, stylized, disturbing, cynical, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hollywood, mental illness, aspiring actor, child star, obsession, actress, mother daughter relationship, satire, threesome, haunted by the past, menage a trois ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, canada, usa, beverly hills
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589
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Western
Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
1863, a convoy in the American West, Martha Jane needs to learn how to take care of horses to drive the family wagon. Except she ends up wearing pants and cutting her hair. The scandal that its stark character provokes will force to face all the ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, touching, anime ...
Plot:
female protagonist, horse riding, teenage girl, chase, military, dead mother, gold mine, chore, promise, disguise, golddigger, gold ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her independence and prove to everyone that a child also has the power to change the world.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, psychological
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
bullying, homeless, teacher student relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, teenager, children, space program, father daughter relationship, home alone, female bully, dead mother ...
Place:
germany, hamburg germany, northern germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A New York tale about love, loss… and vampires.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, teenager, vampire, supernatural, teenage boy, school, cemetery, murder, money, seaside, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
Emma approaches adulthood, she tries to live an ordinary life and keep up to her late mothers expectations. However her anxiety weighs over her, stopping her from enjoying the last few youthful years.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
first love, panic attack, college, alcohol abuse, teenage love, loneliness, anxiety, writers, love interest, mental health, single father, writer's block ...
Place:
northern england, manchester
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A terminally ill single mother is determined to reconcile her splintered family.
Style:
disturbing, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
bathhouse, japanese woman, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, bullying, east asian woman, terminal illness, diagnosis, husband wife relationship, cancer, doctor, sibling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, last wish, family problems, death in the family, husband wife relationship, dying, dead mother, countryside, dark humor, dealing with death, broken leg, death of mother ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, captivating, romantic
Plot:
erotica, forbidden love, father son relationship, love interest, abusive father, sexual awakening, sex scene, cruelty, dead mother, sadist, family problems, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes away, Mark is forced to confront his shortcomings. Their fates, now intertwined, hang in the balance ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, family relations, single parent, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, life turned upside down, parent child relationship, babies and infants, death in the family, father son relationship, baby ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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743
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia (Suzanna Love), a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike (Easy Rider's Robert Walker, Jr.). Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
murder, female serial killer, female killer, obsession, serial murder, manipulation, husband wife relationship, sadism, hearing voices, revenge, violence, fight ...
Place:
arizona, london
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603
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Funland is a comedy / thriller serial, produced by the BBC that was first screened from 23 October 2005 to 7 November 2005, on the digital channel BBC Three. Created by Jeremy Dyson and Simon Ashdown, the series consists of a fifty-minute opening ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, surreal, sexy ...
Plot:
clue, murder, dark secret, criminal underworld, corruption, deception, stripper, husband wife relationship, greed, dead mother, gambling debt, strip club ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
northern england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Shoebox Zoo is a children's fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. It was first broadcast in 2004 by CBBC. ...
Style:
captivating, touching, semi serious, exciting
Audience:
kids
Plot:
reluctant hero, friendship, toy comes to life, father daughter relationship, girl, fish out of water, family relations, bravery, journey, chosen one, heroine, good versus evil ...
Time:
10th century
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A forensic cleaner, responsible for the removal of human corpses, has never been able to relate with people or life. Suddenly, he will become accountable for an 8-year-old orphan who has been left behind in the middle of a mysterious epidemic crisis ...
Style:
stylized, serious, atmospheric, touching, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, escapades, survival, boy, dead mother, illness, epidemic, orphan, gain trust, plague, subway ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, funny
Plot:
family relations, introspection, love triangle, sibling relationship, love and romance, homecoming, unfulfilled love, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, brother brother relationship, dead mother, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, louisiana
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1K
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork navigates her way through the annals of junior high.
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, gender, teenage girl, middle school, school, nerd, neighbor, gay parent, teenage life, gender bending, children, bully ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize ...
Style:
scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, disappearance, psychiatrist, violence, dead mother, spirit, trapped, supernatural power, family problems ...
Place:
reykjavik iceland, iceland
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251
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Alice is given a parenting exercise at school which changes her understanding of the world in a way she never expected.
Plot:
car accident, strip club, coming of age, runaway teen, accidental killing, single father, dead mother, beach, male nudity, camping, murder, dead wife ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For 11 years, Beth's life is limited to working nights in a convenience store while her daytime hours are spent caring for her bed-ridden, bitter and abusive mother. All that keeps her going is a voice on the radio of a psychologist, Dr Roland. ...
Style:
queer horror, tense, serious, psycho film
Plot:
obsession, sex crime, cell phone, wife, mythical creature, nanny, murderer, suicide, schizophrenia, radio, hallucination, dead mother ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.
Style:
disturbing, experimental, art house, surreal, controversial ...
Plot:
mental illness, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia, dogma, psychology, surrealism, misfit, skating, abusive father, nude, male nudity, eccentricity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, alabama
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