movieIt tells of a couple Dante and Elsa who hires a new governess Carla to care for their four children The governess quickly establishes rapport with the children and the husband creating rumors of an affair Before things could go wrong Carla decides to...
movieHis mother abandoned him as a child so he had no choice but to live outside society Even so he grows up determined to reunite with her Worried that she might be living in misery he saves his money to help only to find that she has married into wealth...
movieFrom the pointofview of the children Mother tells the story of the most unappreciated loving and giving mother who would sacrifice her own life and sometimes the life of others for her loved ones In the autumn of 1955 a family of five children is living...
movieBehind the scenes documentary on the making of the film
movieA gritty homeless woman is forced to fight for her life when a blood feud between two centuries-old gangs spills onto the doorstep of the home where has been squatting.
movieA documentary from 2012 on the making of the film, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar; Agustín Almodóvar; actors Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, and Antonia San Juan; production manager Esther García; and author Didier Eribon.
movieBecause of her decency young women Lara loses her husband, work and house. So her little 10 year old son Vanya comes to arrange mothers life. With the couple of tricks he brings his mother to the manson of the businessmen Ivanovskyy who is divorsing with...
movieAfter years of domestic abuse Donnie and his agoraphobic mother Helen attempt to make a normal life for themselves only to find that they cant shake their unforgiving past
movieThe final weekend of a toxic relationship
movie1942, and a spectacular wartime birth in the depths of winter: a young russian nurse unexpectedly goes into labour and, all alone and in freezing temperatures, gives birth to her daughter Tamara in a field on the banks of the Volga. The most personal...
movieFilmmaker Claude Demers tells the story of his search for his biological mother and their eventual meeting He does this in voiceover accompanied by images from Canadas national archives The painstakingly selected and fluidly edited blackandwhite clips...
movieThe Mother is a powerfil narrative dance production choreographed and directed by Archar Pita a master storyteller Inspired by Hans Christian Andersens dark tale The Story of a Mother this sumptuously designed production stars international dance superstar...
movieUna was the first person who used the change in Latvian Law to find her sister lost in the process of adoption Breaking through bureaucratic jungle she suddenly discovers that she has not only one but four sisters all adopted and scattered around the...
movieThis vérité documentary follows Nora Sandigo legal guardian to over 2000 UScitizen children of undocumented immigrants as she sacrifices everything to keep Americanborn children with their undocumented parents
movieJorge leaves his home and family in the outskirts of Lima to try his luck in the goldmines of the Andes chasing the promises of the mother lode We follow Jorge through a journey full of omens where reality and magical thinking blend together as he discovers...
showStrangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter is a 1979 television film drama directed by Milton Katselas. It stars Bette Davis and Gena Rowlands as a mother and daughter, long estranged, who attempt to repair their relationship when the daughter is...
movieChenxiang is a boy who lives in a small village at the foot of Mount Hua his mother is a goddess named Sanshengmu who was imprisoned under Mount Hua for marrying her father and giving birth to a boy violating divine laws Knowing this Chenxiang decides...
movieLinda gives birth to an illegitimate child from a relationship with her boyfriend Alex who dies in an accident To avoid a scandal her father asks his younger sibling to take the baby to Cirebon Linda is then told that the baby is dead The baby Yatim is...
movieRiver Niger Black Mother follows the 4184kilometerlong River Niger from its source in Guinea through Mali Niger and Benin to Nigeria A passionate ode to the river the cultures that have arisen on its shores and its role in African history accompanied...
movieHumaira Bilkis has a problem after a pilgrimage to Mecca her mother who was previously an emancipated poet has now become devout The filmmaker has to fight to get her to accept the camera since her religion forbids images while hiding her relationship...
movieNoel and his mother Michelle form a strange couple They cannot live without one another but as soon as they get together the atmosphere becomes highly charged Through long conversations and moments of silence the exploration of a motherson relationship...
movie43yearold business woman Harumi She lives with her husband after their only daughter Michiyo married two years ago One day Michiyo is killed by her husband Koji Koji is sentenced to death Harumi initially agreed with it but starts thinking to stop the...
movieA transgender sex worker in her late 40s along Fields Avenue whose only aspiration is to have breast implants for her profession unexpectedly assumes the role of a mother to her orphaned niece a transgender youth who is only beginning to discover her...
movieA century after the establishment of modern schools and four decades after the adoption of Article 15 of the Iranian constitution The right to mother tongue education has not made any official progress and is in a state of ambiguity Despite many obstacles...
movieElizabeth is haunted by her past and is trapped in an abusive relationship with her tyrannical husband Caleb She finds solace in her writing and an escape into a world where her imagination can influence good or evil
movieA Kuwaiti comedy play that talks about the period that followed the liberation of Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion The play cynically dealt with the issue of women entering the political battlefield through Umm Ali Ansar AlSharah mother wife and housewife...
moviePeriod piece about a young man who because of his hard life alone in the world has become a yakuza When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo Tokyo he travels there intent on finding her and leaving the swordsmans life behind But a team of rival...
movieIf you would like to witness the forces of colonialism in brute action Rithy Panhs extraordinary new film provides the long view A masterpiece of editing the film assembles archival footage and antiqued title cards into a wordless recapturing of the Indochinese...
movieSiGueriki is the story of the confrontation of a young man with his history his roots and culture
movieBased on the true story of an Alabama woman who was convicted of killing her first husband and attempting to poison her daughter Out on bail she flees in order to start a new life with two new identities
movieTetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo They both spend a lot of time at their jobs However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8 year old son Shun to live with them while his exwife recovers from a car...
movieA man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife Twenty years later
movieDorothy Pritchard thought it would be easy Housesit for the Poes on Halloween while making out with her hot boyfriend But when the Poes comatose mother ends up needing a bit of babysitting Dorothys night just went from good to bad and its about to get...
moviePeople search for unspoken or even absolute truths when it comes to the notions of life and death Fertility is associated with the miracle of creation but for countless women around the world it is not necessarily a happy subject MOTHER OF THE UNBORN...
movieIn this film Humbert is on the trail of his own history Wolfsgrub is the name of the house where Humberts mother lives and though she is getting on in years she becomes young again as she answers her sons questions Humbert allows his mother the space...
movieMariko Miyagis documentary about everyday life at the school she founded Silktree Nemunoki
movieDrama about a mother and her 4 children
movieIn China in the foothills of the Himalayas a nonviolent egalitarian society has for millennia offered proof that a harmonious and peaceful life is still possible On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations the Mosuo were recognized as...
movieRuth has been with Nora for fourteen years Everybody knows about their relationship except for her mother Estela who has never suspected it Ruth who is almost forty feels the need to confess her homosexuality to her mother who at first is shocked and...
showA woman is taunted by society when she decides to raise the illegitimate child for her husband when he and his mistress pass away in an accident.
movieMotherhood the most celebrated and exploited condition of human existence Joining an illustrious line of shows by straight white men about their daddy issues this is a show by a straight brown woman about her mummy issues The star of Netflixs Comedians...
movieWhen biology and the system fail them in their dream of motherhood, childless couple Alexandra and Jade turn to the dark arts to craft a most unique solution.
movieArthur Beare is a 40 something son still living at home after getting a divorce from his first wife, but in the bargain gets to take care of his senile mother Maggie, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. However no matter what Arthur does, he cannot...
movieShort piece for Electric Literature's Single Sentence Animation series, based on a sentence from the short story 'Watching Mysteries with my Mother' by Ben Marcus. The story features in the first issue of Electric Literature's 'Recommended Reading'. ...
movieAn alcoholic, ensnared in relentless despair, is haunted by the ghosts of childhood and the heavy guilt from his mother’s demise. Each drink offers solace and torment, pulling him deeper into an abyss where memory and reality dissolve like smoke. He...
movieAn alcoholic is plagued by ghosts of his troubled childhood and guilt over his mothers mysterious death. A dadaist take on neo-noir, these two talented female directors make a mark on the New Zealand short film scene with their directorial debut.
movieClimber and transracial Asian-American, Cody Kaemmerlen, searches for connection with his birth parents after a near-death fall leaves him shaken and grasping for answers.
movieMy Mother, the Nazi Midwife, and Me unearths a chilling story that time has almost buried - the systematic murder of 52 Jewish babies in a Displaced Persons' camp under the American military after the end of the war.
movieDeva is a young girl marked by a painful choice: the abortion of a child. Her chance encounter with a child will give her back, through a journey of pain and love, that motherhood and that life that she seemed irremediably lost.
movieA young woman finds a way to resurrect the lover she lost to suicide, with devastating, unforeseen consequences.
