Mother Movies

A grieving mother who suffered the tragic loss of her daughter must decide if she can provide a loving home to a child who's lost her parents.

New mother Rachel seemingly has the perfect life except she doesn’t recall the recent birth of her baby boy or even being pregnant. Her...

A very stressed young woman is dismayed to find herself behaving like her own mother, with whom she has an extremely combative relationship.

Manuela is a woman who leads an extremely gridded life, always following a list of tasks that gives meaning to her existence. The moment that list...

A photomontage telling the story of Jamie’s life from his birth to the moment his mother dies unexpectedly.

Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in the streets from a female perspective. Over a...

A fantasy about a daughter’s yearning for her mother’s warmth and comfort, which turns into a nightmare about harsh reality of a group of...

A psychedelic Soviet/Estonian animation short. A hare boy doesn't want to go to sleep in the evening. His mother tries to scare him with a fox, a...

Jimmy learns to appreciate his parents when a hand puppet dressed as a jester visits him up in the middle of the night and renders him invisible.

Tatiana faces an economic crisis that has forced her to be temporarily away from her kids, her "gang", as she calls them. By writing out her feelings...

A short 1978 documentary based on the experiences of breastfeeding mothers.

After a quietly staggering loss, a young man returns to his childhood home and finds himself overwhelmed with recollections of a day once spent with...

Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient...

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...

A woman gathers her friends together in a cabin to try and protect them from a killer after she dreams each of their deaths. This, however, just puts...

Life becomes hard for a family after the father is involved in an accident that causes him to lose his legs.

The story revolved around a typical household of a Nepalese village where a desperate young boy flees home to earn money and to alleviate agony of...

Françoise Barnier, the film's heroine, is a mother. One day, she stole something. She was in dire straits but no more so than usual. She was...