Mother Movies

Sometimes little questions need big answers.

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

"Mother Died" is a chilling tale of fear, family and a young woman's survival.

With the loss of her mother imminent, a young woman realises that she must comfort another with similar traumas.

Ema finds out she is pregnant with an unplanned child she's not sure she wants to keep, the same week her beloved grandmother becomes gravely ill....

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...

10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese society. In domestic life, many women are now ignore...

Carr plays Anna Webb, whose husband John (Lynn Hammond) invents a new kind of sewing machine. The patent makes the family wealthy, and after Webb...

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...

A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care...

The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown.

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

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.

A woman looking for her kidnapped son finds one of the men who took him.

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the...

Three brothers who just lost their mother have to deal with their loss; all cling onto different things.

A mother struggles to hold her family together as multiple crises threaten to destroy them.

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...