Mother Movies

A tense phone call between a mother and daughter.

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...

The story of a young Mi'kmaq girl whose name means "the light from the dawn."

An older woman's unique friendship with a young boy inspires her to examine the strained relationship she shares with her married son.

A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an...

On a rare evening out, two feisty single moms discover that it's not so easy to hook up with a total stranger anymore.

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne...

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with...

Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, A...

A mother puts her daughter to bed but when she wakes up, is it really her mother calling her name?

Middle-aged women start acting and launch a drama club. However, nothing big or small goes right. But they never give up the play.

A dinner goes horribly wrong.

A Harvard football star disobeys his upper class parents and runs off with his true love.

François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the daily life and medical care of a woman...

Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody...

Jharia, India, one of the most dangerous places on earth. Fires rage underground, smoke and dangerous fumes belch from cracks in the ground. This is...

Murugaiyan, a goat shepherd, comes across a female thief, Pechi, who steals goats for livelihood. He falls in love with her but his mother Veerayi...

Love, motherhood and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Russian woman who tries to keep her balance among wealthy...

When filmmaker Mari Soppela took her children and husband to live for a year on a sacred mountain in her native Finland, she was fulfilling a...