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6.7

♡ 6

82%

65%

Comedy

san diego, california

single mother

Gavin O'Connor Director

Jay O. Sanders as Dan Miller

Lisa Jane Persky as Diner Waitress

Janet McTeer as Mary Jo Walker

Joel Polis as Vice Principal

Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine Ava is tiring of. This time, they are helped on their move to San Diego by trucker Jack Ranson. While Ava settles in, getting a leading part in the school play, Jack starts dating Mary Jo but soon reveals himself to be controlling and aggressive. Mary Jo prepares to flee again, angering Ava.

The Demons of Dorothy

2021

French

5.8

♡ 3

mother-daughter relationship

sexual fantasy

Alexis Langlois Director

Sonia Deville as Bikeuse Lio

Lio as Motherator

Romy Alizée as Romy the Vampire Slayer

Carlotta Coco as Spike

Dorothy’s a film director and a bit of a loser. One night, after a few beers, she lets loose on her script when a call from her producer kills her buzz: enough with the queer comedies, it’s time to start making mainstream films. To avoid sinking to the deepest depths of despair, Dorothy seeks comfort in her favorite TV show "Romy the Vampire Slayer". Unfortunately, her own demons show up.

Memory Box

2021

French

6.6

♡ 3

93%

painful memories

quebec

suicide of father

Joana Hadjithomas Director

Benjamin Hatcher as

Manal Issa as Maia Sanders

Rim Turkhi as Maia Sanders

Rabih Mroue as Raja

Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, sent from Beirut to her best friend who left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.

Scorched Earth

2023

2.6

♡ 8

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Thriller

Joshua Morrison Director

Lis Hipkiss as Grainne

Scarlett Hobbs as Megg

Ben Silver as Reese

Huw Goodhead as Scampi

After the apocalypse, all water is radioactive and deadly to drink. In this dystopian world, Gylian goes to extreme lengths to make sure her daughter gets the medication she needs to survive.

An Impossible Love

2018

French

7.0

♡ 13

100%

Romance

Catherine Corsini Director

Arthur Igual as Cédric

Jeanne Moreau as Florence Carala

Iliana Zabeth as Gaby Schwartz

Virginie Efira as Rachel

A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.

Kung-Fu Master!

♡ 4

older woman younger man relationship

Agnès Varda Director

Léa Drucker as Invitée à la boum de Lucy

Judy Campbell as La mère

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Lucy

Hugh Laurie as Self

A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?

This Is My Life

1992

6.0

♡ 2

36%

49%

Nora Ephron Director

Estelle Harris as Aunt Harriet

Valri Bromfield as Dawna

Gaby Hoffmann as Opal Ingels

Bo Dietl as Private Detective Wheedle

Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two children Erica and Opel to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her agent Arnold Moss makes her famous, but while she travels all over USA, her children stay home lonely.

Pasir Berbisik

2001

Indonesian

7.3

♡ 4

traumatic past

woman director

Nan Triveni Achnas Director

Slamet Rahardjo as Agus

Christine Hakim as Berlian

Dian Sastrowardoyo as Daya

Didi Petet as Suwito

Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother. Forced to move inland from their seaside home to a desert of constantly shifting sands, the pair settle down to their familiar antagonism. Finally, Daya sees a vaguely familiar face shuffle in from across the wasteland.

Pretty Red Dress

2022

brother brother relationship

6.5

85%

98%

Action

red dress

release from prison

Dionne Edwards Director

Edwin De La Renta as Fletcher

Patricia Potter as Jayne

Lee Byford as Prison Officer

Joshua Blisset as Steven

Travis has just been released from prison and it quickly becomes apparent that much has changed while he’s been gone. While girlfriend Candice is on the up and auditioning to star in a Tina Turner musical, daughter Kenisha is struggling in school and her relationship with her mum is tense. So, when Travis buys Candice her dream dress for an audition, rather than smoothing over the family’s problems, it ends up creating even more. As secrets and desires left unsaid threaten to spill out, Travis is forced to re-examine who he is and how he wants to be perceived in the world.

Mari

2018

4.8

♡ 14

64%

sister sister relationship

Music

sister

Georgia Parris Director

Sarah Dowling as Dancer

Daniel Whiley as Dancer

Phoebe Nicholls as Margot

Simon Balcon as Radio Reporter

Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris' debut, which investigates a young woman's identity and the complex relationship she has with her mother and sister.

Kokowääh

2011

German

6.2

♡ 8

63%

Action

Comedy

family relationships

father daughter relationship

Til Schweiger Director

Meret Becker as Charlotte

Johann von Bülow as Feuerwehrmann

Til Schweiger as Henry

Sönke Möhring as Polizist

Henry is a playboy who has no idea that he is the father of a beautiful, cute girl out of a One-night-Stand. Her mother left the daughter in front of Henry door after her husband realized after 8 years of marriage that he is not the father so their relationship now is breaking up... By the way: Kokowääh, is how a German (in this case an 8 Year old child) that has never heard the dish before - would pronounce "Coq Au Vin" (chicken in a wine sauce).

Close-ups

2014

Polish

5.3

♡ 10

husband wife relationship

emotionally disturbed

overprotective mother

Romance

suicide by hanging

woman director

Magdalena Piekorz Director

Katarzyna Bargielowska as

Andrzej Seweryn as Andrzej Milewski

Wladyslaw Kowalski as Doctor

Marieta Zukowska as Young Marta's Mother

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.

Appendage

2023

5.3

♡ 12

50%

suicide attempt

Anna Zlokovic Director

Emily Hampshire as Claudia

Desmin Borges as Cristean

Kausar Mohammed as Esther

Hadley Robinson as Hannah

After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.

The Devil You Know

2013

3.3

♡ 4

29%

blackmail

career

dead husband

husband wife relationship

James Oakley Director

Barbara Garrick as Joan Stone

Lena Olin as Kathryn Vale

Jennifer Lawrence as Young Zoe

Rosamund Pike as Zoe Hughes

Kathryn Vale is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The resulting events force Kathryn to confront the truth about herself and those around her.

Mirage

2018

Spanish

7.4

♡ 126

71%

Oriol Paulo Director

Miquel Fernández as Aitor Medina

Clara Segura as Hilda Weiss

Silvia Alonso as Mónica

Albert Pérez as Román

During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

The Staggering Girl

2019

Italian

5.4

♡ 3

44%

father daughter relationship

short

short film

Luca Guadagnino Director

KiKi Layne as Adut

Julianne Moore as Francesca

Kyle MacLachlan as Matteo / Bruno / Angelo

Mia Goth as Young Sofia

Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.

The Recorder Exam

2011

Korean

7.6

♡ 9

short film

Bora Kim Director

Jeongone Hwang as Eunhee

In-gi Jeong as Father

Myung-shin Park as Mother

Nine-year old Eunhee anxiously prepares for her recorder exam as she struggles to find a place within her own family.

Funny Birds

2024

5.6

♡ 1

Marco La Via Director

Morgan Saylor as Charlie

Joseph Olivennes as Henry

Andrea Riseborough as Laura Sanders

Catherine Deneuve as Solange Fagard

Thrown together under tragic circumstances, three generations of women from the same family are forced to learn to live together on a small rural chicken farm in New Jersey, which generates moving and amusing situations.

Hoard

2023

6.5

♡ 3

mourning

romance

Luna Carmoon Director

Nabil Elouahabi as Ali

Joseph Quinn as Michael

Samantha Spiro as Michelle

Janie Booth as Old Lady with Sheet

The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

1995

6.0

♡ 11

50%