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Exploring the Timeless Bond: Top Movies and TV Shows about Mothers

Mothers are the backbone of any family, and their selfless love and dedication have inspired countless stories in cinema and television. From heartwarming dramas to intense thrillers, movies and TV shows about mothers showcase the complexities and depth of this extraordinary relationship. In this article, we'll delve into the best films and series that celebrate the beauty of motherhood.

Cast

Noriko Hidaka

Chika Sakamoto

Hitoshi Takagi

Shigesato Itoi

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

8.1 8.9K votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: G

Story: Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

Plot: mother, sibling relationship, village, leave, rural area, hospital, new neighbor, new home, ...

Cast

Fernanda Torres

Fernanda Montenegro

Selton Mello

Valentina Herszage

I'm Still Here (2024)

7.9 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Brazil, France

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

Style: nostalgic, realistic

Plot: mother, beach, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, based on true story, anti-communism, sao paulo, brazil, ...

Time: 1970s, 1990s, 2010s

Place: rio de janeiro

Cast

Nicole Kidman

Reese Witherspoon

Shailene Woodley

Laura Dern

Big Little Lies (2017) TV Show

7.9 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 14

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.

Plot: mother, rape, based on novel or book, infidelity, violent husband, feminism, therapist, custody battle, ...

Cast

Michelle Yeoh

Stephanie Hsu

Ke Huy Quan

James Hong

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

7.7 8.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

Style: intense

Plot: mother, martial arts, kung fu, nihilism, philosophy, generations conflict, chinese woman, surrealism, ...

Cast

Kim Hye-ja

Won Bin

Jin Goo

Yoon Je-moon

Mother (2009)

7.7 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

Plot: small town, mother, rice, golf, murder, teenage girl, misunderstanding, cell phone, ...

Cast

Ludwika Paleta

Paulina Goto

Martu00edn Altomaro

Liz Gallardo

Daughter from Another Mother (2021) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Mexico, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 27

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After realizing their babies were exchanged at birth, two women develop a plan to adjust to their new lives: creating a single —and peculiar— family.

Plot: mother, female friendship, daughter, motherhood, switched at birth

The Good Wife (2009) TV Show

7.6 683 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 156

Audience: TV-14

Story: Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

Style: cynical, tense, witty

Plot: mother, infidelity, governor, politics, lawyer, justice, defense attorney, distressing

Still Alice (2014)

7.5 3.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

Plot: mother, amnesia, based on novel or book, professor, alzheimer's disease, memory loss, family, illness, ...

Workin' Moms (2017) TV Show

7.4 128 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Canada

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 83

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Four women juggle love, careers, and parenthood. They support, challenge, and try not to judge each other as life throws them curveballs. Whether it is an identity crisis, a huge job opportunity, postpartum depression, or an unplanned pregnancy – they face both the good and bad with grace and humour.

Plot: mother, work, parenthood, sitcom, workplace comedy

Cast

Danielle Deadwyler

Jalyn Hall

Frankie Faison

Haley Bennett

Till (2022)

7.3 352 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

Plot: chicago, illinois, mother, funeral, son, based on true story, racist, grief, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Bruce Lee

Maria Yi

James Tien Chun

Marilyn Bautista

The Big Boss (1971)

7.1 849 votes

Genre: Action

Country: Hong Kong, Thailand

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

Plot: factory worker, factory, mother, martial arts, kung fu, prostitute, smuggling (contraband), boss, ...

The Frighteners (1996)

7.0 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Country: New Zealand, United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

Plot: daughter, small town, mother, sheriff, judge, funeral, widow, fbi, ...

Cast

Edward Brophy

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Margaret Wright

Verna Felton

Sarah Selby

Dumbo (1941)

7.0 5.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 64 min.

Audience: G

Story: Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

Style: whimsical

Plot: mother, dreams, nightmare, suffering, circus, cartoon, clown, ear, ...

Cast

Katie Jarvis

Michael Fassbender

Kierston Wareing

Rebecca Griffiths

Fish Tank (2009)

6.9 950 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.

Plot: adultery, friendship, mother, alcohol, fight, sister, school, theft, ...

Cast

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Milena Smit

Israel Elejalde

Aitana Su00e1nchez-Giju00f3n

Parallel Mothers (2021)

6.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Plot: mother, photographer, pregnancy, spanish civil war (1936-39), memory, single mother, motherhood, dna testing, ...

Cast

Monica Guerritore

Giacomo Gianniotti

Emanuel Caserio

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Francesco Del Gaudio

Deceitful Love (2024) TV Show

6.5 54 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Italy

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After turning 60, a wealthy woman suddenly falls in love with an attractive and much younger man, but her family raises doubts about his intentions.

Plot: mother, hotel, con man, love, romance, family conflict, gold digger, older woman younger man relationship, ...

Cast

Jane Horrocks

Brenda Blethyn

Michael Caine

Ewan McGregor

Little Voice (1998)

6.5 199 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: 15

Story: After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

Plot: daughter, mother, northern england, parent child relationship, talent, father, yorkshire, singer, ...

Cast

Sidney James

Kenneth Williams

Charles Hawtrey

Joan Sims

Carry On at Your Convenience (1971)

6.2 66 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG

Story: At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.

Plot: bet, factory, worker, mother, strike, trade union, toilet, coach, ...

Cast

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Algee Smith

Rau00fal Castillo

Kiara Pichardo

Mother/Android (2021)

5.8 845 votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a stronghold of the android uprising—in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.

Plot: android, mother, artificial intelligence (a.i.), killer robot, dystopia, robot, pregnant woman, suspense

Carry On Behind (1975)

5.5 59 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish mother, and the two professors' constant innuendos, the story ends with a sinking caravan site and a striptease performance as a replacement for the cabaret night.

Plot: mother, holiday, stripper, caravan, sexual humor, carry on, dog, archaeologist, ...

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