Mother Movies

Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal...

A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former...

When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female...

A visual incursion into the troubled psyche of a young boy whose unstable and manipulative mother committed suicide in front of him.

Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the...

In a sleepy hill town in northeast India, a lonely mother tries to reconnect with her estranged policeman son by channeling her inner detective to...

An anxiety-ridden teenager searches for connection at a high school party, until an unexpected connection finds him instead.

A family that used to live extravagantly and in debt. However, everything changed when the father, Tony, lost his job. Forced, Tony and his family...

Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful...

It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes...

Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his...

A ride to the country could turn in more than just a simple vacation for a mother and daughter.

While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009....

In suburban London, on New Years Eve in 1999, an Afghan housewife lives cut off from society by her controlling husband. In secret, with the aid of a...

Stuck in a car with his mother, Loïc opens up a sensitive conversation : he no longer wants to walk on the footsteps of his clown parents. As...

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...

In this revealing one-hour special, we look at the lives of older mums and women desperate to become mothers - at any age. Medical experts say that...

Elisabeth and Gudrun are two Swedish divorcées, both over 40, who meet when Elisabeth parks her car on a loading zone and is ticketed by...

Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his own mother Winnie, who passed away in 2020. This...

The mother of animation director Rebecca Blöcher didn’t want to live an ordinary life. She wanted “something more,” she...