Old Mother Riley in Paris
Old Mother Riley falls into money so goes to Paris, where she is mistaken for a spy.
Old Mother Riley falls into money so goes to Paris, where she is mistaken for a spy.
A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.
The audition process for an exploitative game show becomes the latest test of a long-suffering mother’s fortitude and tenacity.
Calcutta, 1946. Violence rages in India. Sister Teresa teaches at a convent, but is haunted by the faces of the starving, the poor and the homeless; the faces of those less fortunate than her. With only her faith in God, she leaves the convent to live...
Mutter Krause, her daughter Erna and her son Paul live in a tenement in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. Along with them lives "the Tenant", his soon-to-be bride Friede, who works as a prostitute, and her child whose name isn't revealed...
Huan Xi Popo Qiao Xifu, also known by its literal English title Happy Mother-in-law, Pretty Daughter-in-law, is a Chinese television comedy-drama serial created by Yu Zheng. The drama is a produced by Yu Zheng Workshop and Zijun Brilliance, directed by...
A look at the history of the Statue of Liberty and the meaning of sculptor Auguste Bartholdis creation to people around the world
A young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
After Coralie was found dead in a vacant lot, her mother Catherine - who thinks that her daughter was murdered - conducts her own investigation.
Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they...
A widow who works tirelessly at a failing factory in sanctions-gripped Iran receives a marriage proposal that could mean financial security — but could also tear her family apart.
A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!
A successful female executive makes the transition from big business to becoming housewife and mom
This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries has been pressured to adopt different standards and customs. All of the women featured share a belief in the importance of tradition as a source of strength...
A Thai conservationist takes on the powerful tourist industry to rescue abused elephants.
The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot revolves around a traditional tale about theft, greed, an ubiquitous mother, and the links between the worlds of...
Little Juno sets out in search of his sick mother who has left home to work overseas.
Gun-toting gangsters, lawless lawyers and backstabbing bastards. There's a family in the middle, and while some are trying to keep it afloat, others want to tear it apart.
The simple humorous life of Hassouna a real estate agent living peacefully with his wife Hayet, where his story takes place between his house, his office and the thrift store of his friend Babboucha.
Weisser is a young college bound man whose future is threatened when his mother interferes with his love life and a pending scholarship He also discovers that his mothers best friend wishes to get closer to him even if it means murder
Sevket is killed while he escaping blood vengeance. After that, Döndü must look after her children in despite of poverty and blood vengeance.
Aging fashion model Benedetta Barzini strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze.
Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of water. In this tranquil setting, three women join the flow of a small community with the subtle presence...
Gathered by a theater company a small town in Chile called Villa Alegre looks deep into its origins and myths to tell their own history through a play
A new health teacher in a high school is nearly raped by drug-dealing students and is blamed when a student turns up pregnant.
The picture tells about a difficult triangle of relations - the terminally ill woman Marie and the young couple Kira and Mark, who have lost their own child. Now they are ready to adopt Marie's five-year-old son. But the woman has a condition, she wants...
Once, in search of an easy life, Katerina abandoned her daughter, giving her upbringing to an orphanage. Now, many years later, kind and conscientious, she returns to her native village and appears in the house where her daughter grew up ...
Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
A film about the relationship between a mother-daughter robot.
The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.
This documentary depicts the wild swinging youth scene of the turbulent 60's, with in-depth footage of hippies doing a protest march against the Vietnam war in Washington, D.C., a rowdy New Jersey biker club called the Aliens letting it all hang out,...
Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl in the 1970's. Because of these principles Paul-Julien...
Hélène, a Parisian nursery director, navigates her son Paul's hidden heroin addiction, straining their bond in this poignant tale.
Jaime has lost his job and has to provide for his wife, son and daughter. Pressured by this circumstances, he visits his mom, who lives in an apartment he owns, to ask her to move with him so he can sell the apartment. But she is not going to cooperate....
Five years in the making, this brave and level-headed documentary exposes paramilitary activity in present day Northern Ireland during a supposed time of peace.
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
Cleopatra, the last Egyptian queen and one of the most legendary women in history. A beautiful seductress who used her sex appeal in order to manipulate the most powerful men in the Roman Empire. This film reveals the truth behind the legend.
A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored...
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son
A Slovenian mother takes her addicted and self-destructive daughter with her to a remote Italian village. Isolation as attempted salvation. Inspired by Proust, Skafar turns this theme into a gentle and beautiful film, a poem about two souls in which the...
"Romeo and Juliet" in Hong Kong, except the widow Capulet is father Montague's childhood sweetheart. The young lovers try to reconcile their mothers with the help of the father, who is left with a bad taste in his mouth.
An elderly woman pays visit to her mother who resides in nursing home. Few days later she receives a telegram that the mother died, but it turns out that the address it was sent to was wrong. However the guilt of neglect starts to torment the mourning...
A team of five go on an expedition to the South Pole. As they have experienced the blizzard and the excruciating pains, this journey proves to be a challenge to their not only physical but mental strength. While marching towards the end of the world,...
In this emotional, sweeping tale of healing and forgiveness, powerhouse Jamaican American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin embarks on an international journey to re-imagine the art of mothering—having been abandoned by her own mother as a young...
A love-hate relationship among three generations of women, spanning 30 years.
Hardworking career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an allmale office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the corporate game
Pacific Mother journeys from Japan, to Hawaii, Tahiti, Rarotonga and Aotearoa to share interwoven stories of formidable women who live at one with the Pacific Ocean – freediving, spearfishing and paddling waka through its depths and playing with their...
Paddy Chayefskys 1954 play set in the Bronx tells the story of a recently widowed 66yearold woman who seeks a job after 40 years of being a homemaker
A personal documentary by Denise Janzee made in an attempt to get closer to her mother Willeke van Ammelrooy On movie sets and on screen Denise saw her mother cry laugh and fight At home however Willeke shut herself off when she was sad Ill only come...
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these...