Mother Movies

A short 1978 documentary based on the experiences of breastfeeding mothers.

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking...

Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient...

A drug-addict mother, locked in a mental institution, confesses she killed of her own son.

In the third and final installment of Not Alone, a persistent mother tries to convince the principal of a prestigious middle school to admit her...

A woman grieves the loss of her infant daughter. (Click the "TRAILER" link to view the film on YouTube!)

François Delisle draws an intimate portrait of his mother in a nursing home. A chronicle of the daily life and medical care of a woman...

ICE conducted the largest immigration raids in US history at slaughterhouses in 2019, arresting and deporting undocumented workers. Despite the...

A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together.

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper...

A woman who focused on being a mother feels that she no longer has any purpose now that her son has made his own life, until one lonely night after a...

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai,...

What if you love your child, but are unhappy in your role as a mother? Spijtmoeders is a documentary film about mothers who, if they could make the...

A daughter sees her mother in a dream and is reminded that before being a mom, she was once a little girl. Together, they honor each others wildest...

A young teenage single mother (Maggi) struggling to raise her baby daughter (Lucy) finds the weight of responsibility bearing down on her shoulders....