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Movies: Best "lost mother" Movies


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To All the Boys I've Loved Before(2018)

3.8/5 (with 3,922 votes)

Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.

Chick Fight(2020)

R
| 1h 38min | Action, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 99 votes)

When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.

Directed by Paul Leyden

My Own Private Idaho(1991)

R
| 1h 44min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 498 votes)

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 33min | Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 470 votes)

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

Vegas(2009)

1h 50min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.

Directed by Gunnar Vikene - With Helge Jordal

Feral(2019)

1h 14min | Drama, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A homeless woman living in the tunnels below New York City survives on her own terms in the days leading up to a blizzard.

Scent of Oranges(2019)

1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek's world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer's end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new.

Directed by Ivan Pokorný - With Emilie Neumeister, Stanislav Majer, Steffen Groth, Ewa Farna, Eva Sakálová, Tomáš Dalecký, ...

The Gifted One(1989)

1h 36min | Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A young boy can transfer his body energy into ESP and heal sick people. While the subject of scientists' studies, he runs away to try to find out about his past and why he is the way he is.

Directed by Stephen Herek

The First Woman(2021)

1h 16min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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 assisted living residence is found for her. Eva takes the first steps towards the "normal" life she longs for: to find a job, earn an income of her own, visit her mother... even find love. While she’s taking stock of her past and works on her self-confidence as well as her trust in the outside world, she also fixes firmly on her main goal: to reconnect with the son she lost custody of 20 years ago and ask him to forgive her. The First Woman is a film about second chances, the search for "normality" and the borderline between lucidity and darkness.

Together(2009)

1h 40min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.

Mila Seeking Senida(2010)

1h 23min | Documentary

Teenage girl Mila found out a name of Serbian soldier who saved her from burnt house during the war in Bosnia. She starts looking for her mother Senada, sister Sanda and her father. All of their names are written on a monument dedicated to dissapeared people from the town. In turn of the events, she finds her father alive.