When her estranged mother falls into a coma, a self-made single mom grapples with regret and resentment while reflecting on their strained relationship.

Little Big Women

2020

Chinese

7.2

♡ 4

93%

mother daughter relationship

sisterhood

tearjerker

Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu Director

Janine Chun-Ning Chang as

Vivian Hsu as

Honduras as Sara Yu

Sara Yu as

A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophisticated girlfriend while she finds out her kids might have been secretly in touch with her late husband all these years.

Lejontämjaren

2003

Swedish

4.8

♡ 3

Manne Lindwall Director

Mirja Turestedt as Anna

Magnus Krepper as Björn Sundström

Lisa Lindgren as Karin Andreasson

Eric Lager as Simon Andreasson

Simon is nine years old and in his world, he has a real lion as a companion. Simon is bullied at school by Alex. Simon is sure he can defeat Alex in team with the lion, but it's just in his imagination. In the real life he has no chance... until one day.

Raising Helen

2004

English

6.0

♡ 10

25%

Garry Marshall Director

Helen Mirren as Dominique

Kate Hudson as Helen Harris

Mark DeCarlo as Hockey Rabbi

Abigail Breslin as Sarah Davis

Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of her life!

The Maid

1990

English

5.9

♡ 9

50%

Ian Toynton Director

Martin Sheen as Anthony Wayne

Catherine Lachens as Catherine Olivier

James Faulkner as Laurent Leclair

Jacqueline Bisset as Nicole Chantrelle

A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he discovers she not only is his boss, but his colleague at the bank.

Las ovejas no pierden el tren

2014

Spanish

5.6

♡ 2

Álvaro Fernández Armero Director

Alberto San Juan as Juan

Inma Cuesta as Luisa

Kiti Mánver as Marisa

Jorge Bosch as Paco

A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.

Mary Goes Round

2017

English

6.7

♡ 4

90%

Molly McGlynn Director

Jess Salgueiro as Crystal

Karen Ivany as Palliative Unit Nurse

Aaron Poole as Pete

Kristian Bruun as Police officer

When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.

Window Horses

2016

English

6.7

♡ 4

92%

Ann Marie Fleming Director

Ellen Page as Kelly

Shohreh Aghdashloo as Mehrnaz

Omid Abtahi as Ramin

Sandra Oh as Rosie Ming

Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.

On Moonlight Bay

1951

English

6.9

♡ 5

79%

Roy Del Ruth Director

Rosemary DeCamp as Alice Winfield

Doris Day as Marjorie Winfield

Ellen Corby as Miss Mary Stevens

Edmund Penney as Senior

The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president

Funan

2018

French

♡ 29

93%

based on a true story

husband wife relationship

War

Denis Do Director

Erika Ishii as Chan

Bérénice Bejo as Chou

Ren Hanami as Chou's Mom

Louis Garrel as Khuon

Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future…

The Chalk Garden

1964

English

7.2

♡ 8

71%

grandparent grandchild relationship

judge

Mystery

problem child

Ronald Neame Director

Hayley Mills as Laurel

John Mills as Maitland

Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal

Edith Evans as Mrs. St. Maugham

The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Edith Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has neglected her other love – a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as Laurel's behavior frightens away a succession of governesses until an enigmatic one is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skillfully sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully failed garden.

The Good Earth

1937

English

7.5

♡ 4

95%

77%

1910s

Action

based on novel or book

based on play or musical

china

Drama

family relationships

husband wife relationship

Romance

Victor Fleming Director

Victor Sen Yung as Chinese Peasant

Keye Luke as Elder Son

Philip Ahn as Revolutionary Army Captain

Walter Connolly as Uncle

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.

A Home of Our Own

1993

English

7.1

♡ 8

50%

Tony Bill Director

Tony Bill as Doctor

Kathy Bates as Frances Lacey

Frank Gerrish as Mr. Whitman

Edward Furlong as Shayne Lacey

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.

Ashura no gotoku

2003

Japanese

7.0

♡ 5

Yoshimitsu Morita Director

Hitomi Kuroki as Makiko Satomi - Second Daughter

Kyoko Fukada as Sakiko Kamiuchi - Fourth Daughter

Kaoru Kobayashi as Takao Satomi

Eri Fukatsu as Takiko Takezawa - Third Daughter

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

La gran familia

1962

Spanish

6.6

♡ 1

Fernando Palacios Director

Alberto Closas as Carlos Alonso

Luis Barbero as El cartero

María Isbert as La nueva chacha

José Cordero as Sr. que encuentra a Chencho

Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages. They all live with the grandfather and depend exclusively on Carlos work (moonlighting rigger) as the sole breadwinner, which puts them in constant financial trouble. They also have the generous support of Juan the godfather, baker by profession. Through various events, we are told of everyday family life: a regular and full-time day of the clan; First communion of two sons; finals of nine of them; holiday on the Costa Dorada (Tarragona), propitious time for the romance of various members of the clan; the loss of Chencho, the baby of the family, in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid and its subsequent recovery. The arrival of their first television serves to announce the arrival of a new child.—jsanchez

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japanese

7.8

♡ 21

97%

husband wife relationship

japan

War

world war ii

Sunao Katabuchi Director

Joe Ochman as Additional Voices

Kira Buckland as Keiko

Laura Post as Suzu Non

Non as Suzu

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

2013

English

6.4

♡ 37

78%

David Lowery Director

Casey Affleck as Bob Muldoon

Rooney Mara as Ruth Guthrie

Keith Carradine as Skerritt

Rami Malek as Will

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.

Five on the Black Hand Side

1973

English

6.4

♡ 4

45%

Action

admiring

blaxploitation

blaxploitation cinema

Oscar Williams Director

Henry G. Sanders as Barber Shop patron

Glynn Turman as Gideon

Carl Franklin as Marvin

Sonny Jim Gaines as Sweetmeat

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.

Florianópolis Dream

2018

Spanish

6.4

♡ 2

100%

Ana Katz Director

Ana Katz as Karina Benítez

Mercedes Morán as Lucrecia

Marco Ricca as Marco

Gustavo Garzón as Pedro

A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.

A Sunday in the Country

1984

French

7.4

♡ 1

100%

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Thomas Duval as Emile

Jean-Roger Milo as Fisherman

Erika Faivre as Little girl

Claude Winter as Madame Ladmiral

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

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Little Big Women

Lejontämjaren

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The Maid

Las ovejas no pierden el tren

Mary Goes Round

Window Horses

On Moonlight Bay

Funan

The Chalk Garden

The Good Earth

A Home of Our Own

Ashura no gotoku

La gran familia

In This Corner of the World

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Five on the Black Hand Side

Florianópolis Dream

A Sunday in the Country