The Italian (2005), Bao (2018), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), Earth (2007), Mark of an Angel (2008), Other People (2016), Aparajito (1956), The Silver Brumby (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mother/child Relationship movies.
Storyline: Abandoned by his mother, 6-year-old Vanya (Kolya Spiridonov) lives in an orphanage run by a greedy woman (Mariya Kuznetsova) and her cruel lover (Nikolai Reutov). Vanya decides to run away and find his mother after a wealthy Italian couple offer to buy him and after observing that the older children in the home survive by stealing or prostitution. He faces many dangers on his journey, including the pair at the orphanage who tried to sell him.
Plot Keywords: orphan, alcoholic, madam, driver, mother, friend, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman who is suffering from empty nest syndrome gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings springs to life.
Plot Keywords: mother, woman, lonely woman, doll, creative, lighthearted, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An 1880s Brooklyn boy (Freddie Bartholomew) is summoned to England by his grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith) and raised as a lord.
Plot Keywords: heir, earl, mother, lawyer, impostor, tender, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A polar bear, an elephant and humpback whale all struggle to raise their young and keep them safe from predators.
Plot Keywords: elephant, lion, bear, whale, engaging, powerful, earth ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An obsessive woman (Catherine Frot) believes that a 7-year-old (Héloïse Cunin) is her long-dead daughter.
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, ex-husband, son, kidnapper, parent, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A struggling comedy writer, fresh from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother worsens, he tries to convince everyone -- including himself -- he's doing okay.
Plot Keywords: writer, mother, father, sister, grandfather, grandmother, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Apu enters a local school, where he does well. By the time he graduates, he has a scholarship to study at a college in Calcutta. So off he goes. His mother is torn by his leaving, and by his growing independence. She loves her son very much and wants him to succeed, but she does not want to be left alone.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: young boy, mother, father, widow, sad, moving, india ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a blustery night, Elyne Mitchell (Caroline Goodall) reassures her young daughter, Indi (Ami Daemion), by telling the girl the story of Thowra, a glorious silver steed. As Thowra reaches maturity, he is primed to become the leader of a band of wild horses. The stately beast, however, catches the eye of a man (Russell Crowe) living in the wilderness, who is determined to capture the animal. The horse must then engage in a desperate battle for his own freedom.
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, horse, man, thrilling, suspenseful, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his death sometime in his forty-third year, suburbanite Lester Burnham tells of the last few weeks of his life, during which he had no idea of his imminent passing. He is a husband to real estate agent Carolyn Burnham and father to high school student Janie Burnham. Although Lester and Carolyn once loved each other, they now merely tolerate each other. Typical wallflower Janie too hates both her parents, the three who suffer individually in silence in their home life. Janie tries to steer clear of both her parents. Carolyn, relatively new to the real estate business, wants to create the persona of success to further her career, she aspiring to the professional life of Buddy Kane, the king of the real estate business in their neighborhood. Lester merely walks mindlessly through life, including at his job in advertising. His company is downsizing, and he, like all the other employees, has to justify his position to the newly hired efficiency expert to keep his job. Things change ...
Plot Keywords: husband, father, young girl, stalker, student, boyfriend, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.
Plot Keywords: priest, actress, psychiatrist, doctor, detective, daughter, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pinky is an awkward adolescent who starts work at a spa in the California desert. She becomes overly attached to fellow spa attendant, Millie when she becomes Millie's room-mate. Millie is a lonely outcast who desperately tries to win attention with constant up-beat chatter. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. After two emotional crises, the three women steal and trade personalities until they settle into a new family unit that seems to give each woman what she was searching for.
Plot Keywords: teenager, therapist, painter, husband, doctor, brooding, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: May (Anne Reid) is a middle-aged grandmother who lives in Northern England with her husband, Toots (Peter Vaughan). When Toots dies while the couple is visiting their children in London, May begins to feel a sense of isolation and falls into a deep depression. Needing something new and vital to cling to, May takes refuge in the arms of Darren (Daniel Craig), a burly handyman who is not only half her age and married, but also sleeping with her daughter, Paula (Cathryn Bradshaw).
Plot Keywords: grandmother, daughter, son, handyman, lover, wife, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the "junta militar" that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter.—Miguel Cane
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, daughter, wealthy man, emotional, tense, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...
Plot Keywords: son, mother, impostor, seaman, emotional, heartwarming, greenock, scotland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: orphan, playboy, father, mother, grandfather, baby, hilarious ...
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