Motherhood Movies

Three separate stories – a mother, her teenage daughter, and a police officer – converge thanks to one event: the titular incident,...

After her addicted husband sells their 6-year-old daughter, a mother takes matters into her own hands and sets off on a desperate journey to save her...

In this Iranian film, social worker Mina (Fateme Motamed-Aria) tells the reformatory head they should offer genuine emotional feedback to their...

Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and...

An enchanting documentary following five ballet dancers from around the world as they balance the demands of their profession with motherhood.

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 reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return...

Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.

n the Jam Jar is an invitation to the intimacy of 81-year-old Joan’s final days, whose musings silently echo with Dan’s, her 50-year-old...

Foghorn Leghorn is sound asleep when the barnyard dog places an ostrich egg beside him for a gag. When Foghorn awakes and sees the egg...

Plot TBA; a horror film about motherhood.

Eva’s being allowed to leave the psychiatric institution she’s lived in for six years. After a long year of waiting, the news arrive: an...

In a society where the government predicts the genetic intellectual capacity of every newborn child, a pregnant woman's fetus is rated a perfect, but...

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her...

A woman's nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love—unspool in a playful parade of surreal,...

The movie follows Suleman’s journey starting from her decision to have one more IVF procedure to complete her then family of six, to becoming a...

New York Day Women follows a Haitian American woman who unexpectedly sees her mother in Manhattan during a workday—sparking an intimate...

In France, a child is killed by its mother every ten days. By giving a voice to some of these women and their families, this documentary takes a...