Motherhood Movies

[m]otherhood will make us stop asking women without children why they don’t want to be mothers, because it gives us all the answers. These...

The film explores the vital role of mothers in their children's lives. When one son grows cold and ungrateful toward his mother, a stranger who sees...

A psychological body horror following a sleep-deprived new mother fearing for her baby's safety as she cycles through night and day, nightmare and...

Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.

A woman is forced to choose between her unborn child or medical treatment for re-occuring breast cancer. Shizuku, a talented surgeon, gets pregnant....

A whimsical filmmaker turns to his rational zoologist mother to help film animals. As memories of tigers and pet rabbits surface, the zoologist is...

The impossibility of guide her three daughters in life and the constant failed promise to be a good mother frustrate and imprison Susana more and...

After a relapse, 39-year-old Amaro returns to his mother’s home, where their opposing relationships with food expose a cycle of love, control,...

A coming-of-age story of a girl wanting her mother's approval and validation in Burbank, CA.

After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more...

A worn out mother, Sara, seeks out the source of her child’s favorite lullaby.

Five professional footballers, Irene Paredes, Amel Majri, Marta Corredera, Almuth Schult and Alice Pignagnoli, talk about deciding to become mothers...

Permission to Operate is a story about a single mother struggling to balance different roles in her life, when her passion for a man overshadows the...

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the...

Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson, the story follows a self-sacrificing mother of seven children, four of whom are, in one form or another,...

A young filmmaker makes a movie honoring the life of his childhood nanny and their close bond.

Magdi, a strong-willed, but lonely caregiver faces a daunting reality as she grows older: If she were to pass away, her disabled adult son, Feri...

When war erupts in Ukraine, three women from different worlds collide at the Romanian border: an Italian woman searching for her missing husband and...

Life Is Precious! is one of Simonova's earliest sand pieces. An anti-abortion work, it is built around the image of a fetus during an abortion and...